Anthropic released Claude 4 Opus and Sonnet last week. Per the benchmark results they have published, Claude 4 Opus is roughly comparable to OpenAI o3. However, the updated Aider LLM Leaderboard places Claude 4 Opus on par with o4-mini, at a substantially higher cost. While Anthropic claims that “Claude Sonnet 4 is a significant upgrade to Claud... Read more 27 May 2025 - 1 minute read
In discussions about the regulation of AI services under European law, ChatGPT is in focus — this time concerning the Digital Services Act (DSA). Prompted by a commentary by Luca Bertuzzi on MLex, a LinkedIn exchange recently debated whether ChatGPT qualifies as a “Very Large Online Search Engine” (VLOSE) under the DSA framework. My contribution... Read more 14 May 2025 - 2 minute read
The Model Context Protocol (MCP), dubbed “USB-C for AI”, but essentially an out-of-process execution variety of the tool-use paradigm originally by Anthropic, has raised security concerns before. Now, a blog post finds that the official Python SDK makes MCP server services available to the world (0.0.0.0), not just locally (127.0.0.1). As a resu... Read more 13 May 2025 - 1 minute read
In a recent LinkedIn discussion around a review of PDF-focused KI-Assistants (ComputerBase article), I touched on limitations, workarounds, and the ongoing tension between domain-specific tooling and general-purpose, ever-evolving AI platforms. The Article in Brief The ComputerBase article put Adobe’s new KI-Assistant, Google’s NotebookLM, and... Read more 12 May 2025 - 3 minute read
With ChatGPT offering features not found in the API, like o1-pro previously or o3 with integrated web search, users may want to switch back and forth between ChatGPT, the Prompts Playground, and perhaps archive to Markdown. Enter Chatbot Conversation Converter: A Python utility that converts chat conversations between different formats, inclu... Read more 10 May 2025 - less than 1 minute read