The AI Platform War Got Practical

Mike's take

If you can describe it clearly, you can prompt it. The skill isn't coding. It's being specific about what you actually want.

Top AI stories worth your time

• Microsoft is reportedly training salespeople to talk down OpenAI and Anthropic — TechCrunch AI
  Microsoft is looking to sell its in-house AI models as more efficient and cost-effective than its competitors' models.
• NVIDIA Introduces New Jetson Thor Computers to Advance Mainstream Robotics and Edge AI — NVIDIA
  General-purpose robots and autonomous machines are moving from research labs to real-world mass-market deployment, creating demand for compact, power-efficient AI supercomputers capable of running foundation models at th
• Anthropic, Blackstone bet the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not just models — TechCrunch AI
  Anthropic-backed Ode launches as AI labs bet that embedding forward-deployed engineers inside enterprises is the key to accelerating enterprise AI adoption.
• NVIDIA and Japan Bring Full-Stack AI and Robotics to Every Industry — NVIDIA
  Home to leading manufacturers, robotics pioneers, infrastructure builders and iconic gaming companies, of course, Japan is one of the world’s centers of AI — building across the full stack with NVIDIA technologies. This
• Agentic orchestration: Enterprise AI organizations have a deployment problem, not a platform problem — and most are calling chatbots agents — VentureBeat AI
  Across 101 enterprises, agent orchestration is consolidating onto model-provider platforms — Anthropic’s Claude leads by a wide margin — chosen for the gravity of the underlying model and judged on reliable multi-step ex

Jargon, decoded: Embedding

A numerical representation of text that captures meaning for comparison.

In plain English: Turning words into numbers so the computer can tell what's similar to what.

Myth: Bigger model always means better answers.

For everyday tasks the difference is tiny. The best model is the one you'll actually open and use.

Try this today

Fix the formatting on a document without retyping it. Paste the mess and ask for clean headings, bullets, and consistent spacing.

Try this prompt

I keep hearing the term '[buzzword].' Explain it in plain English, why people care, and whether it changes anything for me.