Essays

Simon Willison on Multi-Agent Systems

High praise from Willison on Anthropic's new multi-agent research system: I've been pretty skeptical of these until recently: why make your life more complicated by running multiple different prompts in…

Nvidia CEO Criticizes Anthropic’s leader over recent comments

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang criticized Anthropic head Dario Amodei over his recent claims that 50% of all entry-level white-collar jobs could be wiped out by artificial intelligence, causing unemployment to jump…

OpenAI hits $10 billion in annual recurring revenue fueled by ChatGPT growth

CNBC reports: OpenAI announces new revenue figures on June 9 and figures that represent a nearly 100% growth in the past year. But it's only a fraction of what they…

News Sites Are Getting Crushed by Google’s New AI Tools

Business Insider cut about 21% of its staff last month, a move CEO Barbara Peng said was aimed at helping the publication “endure extreme traffic drops outside of our control.” Organic search…

Sam Altman: The Gentle Singularity

Altman takes a philosophical if not mystically reverent tone as he considers the future of AI. Starting with, "We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started." has a…

Anthropic fires its AI blogger

A week after TechCrunch profiled Anthropic’s experiment to task the company’s Claude AI models with writing blog posts, Anthropic wound down the blog and redirected the address to its homepage. Sometime over…

OpenAI drops prices on o3

It's not a frontier model, but that's a sizable drop for a tool that is effective in a lot of contexts. Update from Simon Willison on the o3 price drop:…

Google’s NotebookLM Now Lets You Share AI-Powered Notebooks With a Link

Google’s AI research notebook, NotebookLM, just got a lot more collaborative. You can now share any notebook publicly with a simple link—no sign-in or permissions required. I co-worker recently shared…

ChatGPT gets greedy