Knud Berthelsen

@Tulane #AI Professor & Advisor and AI consultant/trainer/speaker. Opinions are my own

[Knud Berthelsen @knudism]

My free Applied AI Literacy course is now available in full as a YouTube playlist! If you want 2026 to be your year for mastering AI, this is how you should start. Link in the first comment.

[Aravind Srinivas @AravSrinivas]

Imagine a fable 5 quality model that’s 3-4x less expensive in less than 6 months. And an Opus 4.8 grade model that can run on a local device in less than 12 months. Greater than 50% chance that these events will happen. Worth keeping in mind when you make predictions about the future.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

It seems like SpaceX/Grok and Meta/Muse have started to keep pace in the near-frontier category while also introducing a new category of cheap, fast & closed specialized coding models.

Both were tied with the Big Three at some point, fell behind, but may have started to return.

[Knud Berthelsen @knudism]

@karpathy @gallabytes What is the best way for those of us not using slack to do this? (Or do we need to start our own slacks?)

[James Pethokoukis ⏩️⤴️ @JimPethokoukis]

Data centers didn’t raise electric bills nationally from 2015–24. Surprise! Actually, they modestly lowered them. That's because big fixed grid costs get spread over more kilowatt-hours, and new demand can unlock economies of scale.
@arxiv

[prinz @deredleritt3r]

Two years ago, reasoning models did not exist. GPT-4o and Sonnet 3.5 were SOTA.

One year ago, the best publicly available model was o3, and 99% of those who used it (i.e., 99% of 7% of OpenAI customers) were using it as a chatbot.

Today (i.e., right now as I type this), I have Codex building several pieces of personalized software and doing a large-scale data management project for me. The data management project has been running autonomously for nearly 4 days. I have multiple working apps on my phone that I use daily and which were built entirely by Codex.

Projecting this trend to June 2027 is absolutely mind-boggling. The world will change.

[Knud Berthelsen @knudism]

@LadyDemosthenes I've had to explain the difference between upload and download, local and cloud, and files and folders to otherwise for students

[Knud Berthelsen @knudism]

The new ChatGPT image generation is impressive! 1: Ancient Goddess of AI, 2: Playful mosaic of ancient goddess of AI benevolently ruling a city, 3: Ancient Mosaic of DATA 2150 Artificial Intelligence Tools, 4: Ancient Mosaic of SLAM 3111 AI & Society.

[Marc Porter Magee 🎓 @marcportermagee]

The impact of AI in four charts

[Nick Gillespie @nickgillespie]

Over at Substack, @JoshEakle asks: "It's 2026, and I have yet to see an anti-almond farm protest."

[vik @vikhyatk]

i used to drink water. but then they built a datacenter near my house. now i can only drink beer

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

It is getting genuinely difficult to keep track of all of the names of AI products being unveiled. In the last hour, Google's unveiled Google Pics (which is not Google Photos), and updates to Google Flow, Nano Banana, Veo (all media generation), Google Antigravity, Gemini Spark, Gemini Omni, Gemini 3.5 Flash

[Knud Berthelsen @knudism]

@VraserX You had me until you wrote OpenAI instead of Anthropic ;-)

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Really curious when Gemini is going to join the Cowork & Codex race to build a local app that isn’t just for developers. Antigravity hasn’t posted updates to X in a month, and remains very software focused. Meanwhile we see accelerated updates and releases from OpenAI & Anthropic

[Thinking Machines @thinkymachines]

People talk, listen, watch, think, and collaborate at the same time, in real time. We've designed an AI that works with people the same way.

We share our approach, early results, and a quick look at our model in action.

https://t.co/AFJZ5kH7Ku

[Knud Berthelsen @knudism]

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[BowTiedCrow @BowTiedCrow]

Hello, the hantavirus has affected my small, minority owned and operated business. I am seeking the United States Government to provide a $100,000 interest free loan that will be forgiven so I can make payroll.

[Mike Hoffmann @MikeHoffmann]

The parenting books don’t do enough to warn you about the fact that work ends at 5:00, the school gets out at 2, and soccer starts at 3:30.

[Nick Hutchins @nicholasrhutch]

I’ll never understand cruises. Best case, you are a hostage in a mid-tier resort and get to pop off at a Señor Frog’s. Worst case, millions are asking for your ship to be bombed to smithereens to prevent you from returning.

[Knud Berthelsen @knudism]

Is it just me or are both openAi and Anthropic very excited to announce that they can do things that @perplexity_ai Computer already crushes?

[pranav @prd_008]

Driving your browser is the #1 use case for Computer Use in Codex. So we made it faster and better with a new Chrome extension.

My favorite thing about this is how Codex can expertly run many tools in parallel to get the job done.

If it's updating a Google Doc, it can now use the Plugin to make changes and the Chrome extension to visually check formatting for more polished docs every time!