Author HubMaximilian Schreiner

Max is the managing editor of THE DECODER, bringing his background in philosophy to explore questions of consciousness and whether machines truly think or just pretend to.

AI research

Sep 17, 2025

OpenAI outperforms humans and Google at the world's top collegiate programming contest

AI in practice

Sep 15, 2025Sep 15, 2025

New data from OpenAI and Anthropic show how people actually use ChatGPT and Claude

AI in practice

Aug 7, 2025Aug 7, 2025

OpenAI launches GPT-5 as a unified system with adaptive reasoning for complex tasks

AI in practice

Jul 4, 2023Jul 4, 2023

Earth Virtualization Engines are the future of climate research

AI research

Jul 4, 2023Jul 4, 2023

Novel transistor aims to make neuromorphic hardware practical for AI computing

AI and society

Jul 3, 2023Jul 3, 2023

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"There will be no programmers in five years," believes Emad Mostaque, founder and CEO of Stability AI. In an interview, Mostaque talked about the dominant role that generative AI systems like ChatGPT are already playing in programming. Forty-one percent of the code on GitHub is already AI-generated, he said.

Mostaque is committed to open source with his company and sees open AI as a "much better business model" than closed systems.

AI in practice

Jul 3, 2023Jul 3, 2023

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Generative AI for videos is getting better and better: Runway has given Gen-2 an update that significantly improves the quality of the results. Gen-2 can generate short video clips from text descriptions, recently added a preview function, and has been available in the browser and smartphone app for iOS since June. The company also employs one of the AI researchers behind Stable Diffusion.

The model update from @RunwayML Gen-2 has seen a big improvement in generated video quality and stability.

I am having a great time running old prompts and comparing the differences.

This is several steps forward on the path to long form, fully generated narrative content. pic.twitter.com/peLX87R2jc

— Steve Mills (@SteveMills) June 30, 2023

AI research

Jun 29, 2023Jun 29, 2023

LeanDojo enables theorem proving with LLMs

AI in practice

Jun 29, 2023Jun 29, 2023

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Startup Inflection recently unveiled its first proprietary language model, Inflection-1, which is said to be on par with GPT 3.5, Chinchilla, and PaLM-540B.

The relatively unknown AI startup, whose CEO Mustafa Suleyman was a co-founder of DeepMind, is using the language model for Pi, its "personalized AI". According to the company, Inflection-1 has been trained on thousands of Nvidia H100 GPUs and reaches the level of GPT-3.5, LLaMA, Chinchilla or PaLM 540B in some benchmarks such as TriviaQA or MMLU. However, it cannot compete with OpenAI's GPT-4 or Google's PaLM 2-L. Pi can be tried out on Pi.ai/talk.

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AI in practice

Jun 28, 2023Jun 29, 2023

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Unity has announced two new AI products for accelerating content creation and providing real-time experiences: Unity Muse and Unity Sentis.

Muse is an AI platform that speeds up the creation of 3D applications using natural input like text prompts and sketches. Sentis enables embedding AI models in the Unity Runtime for games or applications, allowing models to run on any device. Both products are currently available via closed beta, with user feedback actively sought and integrated. Unity also launched a new marketplace for AI solutions.

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