The Great AI Exodus: How Three Tech Giants Lost the Visionaries Who Built the Future

Last update: Friday 8/1/25

An exclusive article in The Information last week reported that many members of Apple's large language model unit were leaving because they perceived that Apple's leadership did not share their vision of the transcendent importance of generative AI. Given that The Information's report was behind a very high paywall, most of the readers of this blog probably could not read it. So the editor tasked ChatGPT to provide an extensive TLDR summary  

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Gemini ... The world's first genAI browsing tool

Last update: Saturday 7/26/25

In a recent note on this blog we ranked the three leading chatbots -- ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini -- with regards to 8 basic functions. None of the three was the best at everything; and Gemini only excelled at two things: searching the Internet and following links to unrestricted pages (e.g., pages not behind paywalls). However, its dominance of these two functions enables it to become the world's first genAI browsing tool, a new function that will be discussed in this note ... Click HERE to read more.

Once upon a recent time, there was a race between a tortoise named ChatGPT, a tortoise named Claude, and a very fast hare named Gemini

Last update: Wednesday 7/16/25

Once upon a recent time, there was a race between a tortoise named ChatGPT, another tortoise named Claude, and a fast moving hare named Gemini. At the start of the race, everybody knew who was supposed to win. But as quick as a wink, some unexpected things began to happen. 
 

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The Anthropic tortoise and the Google hare

Last update: Friday 7/11/25

Once upon a recent time, the editor of this blog posed two questions to Anthropic’s Claude and to Google’s Gemini. Their responses were remarkably similar.

Q1. Why is Google playing catch up to Anthropic in generative AI, a game that Google invented? 

Q2. How come Anthropic, a small startup, has done more significant research in the last three years about how generative AI models really work than Google, whose generative AI efforts are led by Dr. Demis Hassabis, a researcher whose indisputable brilliance earned him a well deserved Nobel prize in chemistry in 2024 for his previous AI innovations.
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Powerful AI data centers in your home/office using Apple technology, Part 2 -- How to build a data center with no code, with no code, with no code

Friday 7/4/25

Your interactions with chatbots, agents, and other AI apps reveal how you really think, especially as these apps become more conversational. Knowing how you really think will enable advertisers to design sales pitches that emphasize features that you are most likely to find appealing in their efforts to persuade you to buy their products and services. These revelations can also enable intrusive government agencies and insurance companies to become even more intrusive. 

Big Tech companies compile insights about you -- which they derive from your interactions with their cloud-based, large language models -- into encyclopedic profiles. They sell access to these profiles to the highest bidders. An obvious and powerful way to substantially reduce these intrusions is to redirect a substantial portion of your queries away from Big Tech's clouds ... Click HERE to read more