2023: The Year LLMs Ate the World
Looking back on a year that transformed AI from a research curiosity into a force reshaping every industry
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- personal
Writing archive
Writing from 2023.
16 essays published in 2023.
Chronological archiveMixtral 8x7B and the Rise of Mixture of Experts
Mistral AI's Mixtral model demonstrates that mixture of experts architectures can deliver frontier-class performance efficiently
- ai
Google Gemini: DeepMind's Multimodal Answer to GPT-4
Google launches Gemini, its most capable AI model, built from the ground up for multimodal reasoning
- ai
re:Invent 2023: Amazon Bedrock and the Enterprise GenAI Stack
AWS re:Invent 2023 puts generative AI at the center of Amazon's cloud strategy with Bedrock and new services
- cloud
- ai
The OpenAI Board Crisis: Five Days That Shook AI
Sam Altman's firing and rehiring at OpenAI exposes the tensions at the heart of AI development
- ai
OpenAI DevDay: GPTs, Assistants API, and the Platform Play
OpenAI's first developer conference reveals its vision for an AI application platform
- ai
- agents
My First Steps in AI Research
Documenting my journey from infrastructure engineer to hands-on AI researcher and builder
- ai
- career
Tool Use, Function Calling, and the Future of AI Integration
The emergence of structured tool use and function calling in LLMs points toward a protocol-driven future for AI integration
- mcp
- ai
Meta's Llama 2 and the Rise of Open Source LLMs
Llama 2's open release changes the dynamics of AI development and gives enterprises new deployment options
- ai
LangChain, LlamaIndex, and the AI Tooling Explosion
The AI framework ecosystem is exploding with tools for building LLM-powered applications
- ai
- agents
Anthropic and Claude: The Safety-First Approach to AI
Anthropic's Claude model and Constitutional AI represent a fundamentally different philosophy in the AI race
- ai
Pivoting My Career Toward AI
After years in cloud infrastructure, I am making a deliberate shift toward AI and large language models
- ai
- career
AutoGPT and the Dawn of Autonomous AI Agents
AutoGPT introduces the concept of autonomous AI agents that can decompose tasks and execute multi-step plans
- ai
- agents
GPT-4 Is Multimodal and It Changes Everything
GPT-4 launches with multimodal capabilities, passing professional exams and setting a new benchmark for AI
- ai
Google Bard and the LLM Race Heats Up
Google announces Bard in response to ChatGPT, and the large language model race officially begins
- ai
Microsoft's Billion-Dollar Bet on OpenAI and the AI Arms Race
Microsoft's massive investment in OpenAI signals a new era of AI competition among the tech giants
- ai