On the same day the biggest names in the US tech sector were watching the inauguration of their President from a better vantage point than most of the incoming cabinet picks, a small hedge-fund-turned-AI-research-lab based out of Hangzhou, China released an article that was about to turn their worlds upside down. DeepSeek, a company of less than 200 people (compared to 3500+ of OpenAI or Anthropic and just over 1000), announced their first reasoning model: DeepSeek R1.… Read More
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Playing with LLMs – TheLatest and cook.ai.
Over the past few weeks, I have been obsessed with the potential of LLMs. I’m sure most of my friends and family are sick to death of me ranting and raving about what was just released on any particular day. Papers, news, Spaces and repos. I’m aiming to take as much of it in as I can. With every new article or paper published I find myself becoming even more obsessed with the idea of making AI technologies consumable to the masses.… Read More
hatem.ai – A GPT-based verbal conversationalist, built for automated sales calling.
Three weeks ago, I travelled to Sydney to spend a few days. One of my best mates was moving to Ireland, so it was worth the trip just to see him off. Whilst up there, I also caught up with my friend John Hatem, who was in my graduate program cohort at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and has recently become one of their local government account managers.… Read More
Welcome.
This is a new personal blog. I aim to use it to document projects, project ideas, observations and thoughts.
In November 2022, I finished up my time at HPE Australia. For HPE, Australia was almost exclusively a sales and support region. However, after entering a new role as a Presales/Solutions Architect (formally “Data & AI Specialist”) for the local Ezmeral team, I quickly realised that this side of the industry wasn’t for me.… Read More