The next big thing in AI might be thinking smaller
A new generation of compact models is changing what we expect from on-device intelligence.
Artificial Intelligence
Nexbrief — the AI newsroom demo
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The five-minute version
- Benchmarks are not the same thing as usefulness
A benchmark is a proxy. It stands in for a capability that is hard to measure directly, and like all proxies it can drift away from the thing it was meant to represent once people start optimising for the number.
- The new startup constraint: a compute budget
For a generation of software companies, marginal cost was effectively zero. Products built on large models do not have that property: every request has a price, and that price shows up in the gross margin.
- The grid is the bottleneck everyone underestimated
Building generation is now comparatively fast. Connecting it is not. In this sample analysis, interconnection queues rather than construction timelines are the binding constraint on new capacity.
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Technology
A developer's guide to a calmer AI workflow
Keep the useful automation. Lose the constant context switching.
Media
How a small newsroom rebuilt its publishing stack
Illustrative media-industry reporting for the demo.
Startups
Your next AI tool should do one thing really well
The case for focused assistants that fit the workflow you already have.
Technology
Building a more intentional relationship with tech
A practical look at notifications, defaults, and the tools that earn our attention.
Science
A materials breakthrough, and the decade before deployment
Sample research coverage on the gap between lab and production.
Science
New observations are rewriting a familiar timeline
Demo science reporting with an emphasis on uncertainty.
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