There's "China speed," the pace at which platforms get built, scaled, and exported across the Pacific. And then there's "Shenzhen speed," which is fast enough to surprise the Chinese themselves. I just spent a week there at a Prosus tech conference. Beyond participating as one of the keynotes, the bigger takeaway was listening to the Chinese AI landscape unfold with founders speaking on building robots, AR glasses, and frontier models. The programming was very thoroughly put together, ranging...

Sometimes we read about sweeping headlines on AI, and it makes us lose hope in humans. AI gets better exponentially at everything and our confidence in ourselves starts to wane. But the other day, I came across a test where the humans scored 100% and AI around 1%. Whenever a new model update is rolled out, it is measured against industry benchmarks. (These benchmarks include tests such as MMLU , which measures broad knowledge across many subjects, GSM8K for mathematical reasoning, HumanEval...

AI slowly eats away the modern org chart Did you know that the modern org chart is actually modelled after how soldiers reported to generals during war times in the Roman period? Just like how schools are modelled after the Germanic assembly line (aka outdated), org chart make-ups isn’t that innovative either. And it’s controlled us for about 2000 years. Let that sink in. So apparently, back in the day, 8 soldiers would form a contubernium (pictured below) Which really was just a shared...