Benedict Evans

Apple intelligence and AI maximalism

This means that Apple’s foundation model won’t suggest putting glue on your pizza, as Gemini…

Building AI products

This is an ‘unfair’ test. It’s a good example of a ‘bad’ way to use…

Ways to think about AGI

In 1946, my grandfather, writing as ‘Murray Leinster’, published a science fiction story called ‘A…

AI and problems of scale

There’s a story in one of Georges Simeon’s 1930s detective stories that I think about…

Looking for AI use-cases

The deeper problem, I think, is that no matter how good the tech is, you…

The problem of AI ethics, and laws about AI

In the late 1990s, the UK Post Office deployed a new point-of-sale computer system, built…

Who cares about tech regulation?

When I look at the engagement on this website, and in my newsletter, it’s vey…

A month of the Vision Pro

Meta bought Oculus ten years ago this month, for $2bn. Oculus was selling a device…

Remaking the app store

All of this is to say that you can believe two things. On one hand,…