The AI Optimist | AI news and strategy for leaders
For leaders who want to respond to the AI opportunity rather than react to the AI hype - weekly AI news delivered with pragmatic optimism you can act on.
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One of the world's best AI models is free to download - plus the $1.5bn training-data lesson, and a half-hour experiment for the weekend and is it time to look at your AI sovereignty?
Horizontal AI spreads the benefit thin. Vertical AI makes it measurable. AI adoption makes the business case work.
Plus: the free tool cutting AI bills 60-95%, and teenagers building real startups with real AI skills.
Fabel 5, Sonnet 5, ChatGPT 5.6 and AI can only actually impact 5% of a human's role.
Three governments, one company pivot, and the four things that go up in value as AI drives the cost of doing towards zero.
The week a government switched off a frontier AI model - and why your AI stack is now critical infrastructure you already know how to protect.
The AI model pricing spread just hit 1,000x. Here's which tier your business actually needs.
The AI model race is a backdrop now. The real work is how your people use what you've already got.
Why personal video is the new edge when the cost of doing drops to zero. Google Omni Flash is worth paying attention to.
Cost-saving is the obvious AI play. Prediction is the bigger one - and the tools just arrived.
the real skill isn't using AI, it's still understanding your own business
A Chinese court ruled AI cost-cutting is not a lawful reason to fire workers. Here is why that reshapes the AI business case for UK SME leaders – and the growth-led alternative.
