
Lucy's Flash Drive Revisited: AI, Quantum & Knowledge
Twelve years on, Besson's Lucy reads like a thought experiment about knowledge migrating from flesh to machine — quietly validated by LLMs and qubits.
Articles on AI, post-quantum cryptography, ISO 20022 and the future of payments.
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Generative AI, multimodal LLMs, voice, and speech models — and how they reshape banking operations, customer service, and product engineering at Tier-1 institutions.

Twelve years on, Besson's Lucy reads like a thought experiment about knowledge migrating from flesh to machine — quietly validated by LLMs and qubits.

OpenVoice from MIT, Tsinghua and MyShell: production-grade voice cloning with tone, accent and emotion control — and the trade-offs worth knowing.

Explore Apple's MM1 paper on Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). Learn about their architecture, pre-training strategies, and AI potentials.

Explore how OpenAI Whisper and Metal Performance Shaders are transforming real-time speech recognition on macOS, offering unparalleled speed and accuracy.

Meet Mistral AI's new multilingual Assistant. An advanced AI that can understand and respond in multiple languages, all in one conversation and in real-time.

Explore Google's Gemma AI Model: An open-source project offering ethical AI solutions for both personal and enterprise use.

Gemini 1.5 from Google scales context windows past 1M tokens. What that unlocks for retrieval-augmented finance and the trade-offs worth knowing.

The EU AI Act sets the first comprehensive framework for ethical, risk-tiered AI regulation worldwide. What changes for banks, vendors and high-risk systems.

Discover how Àkàndé leverages OpenAI GPT's natural language understanding, PDF summaries, and efficient caching to redefine personal and executive assistance.

Explore how AI transforms advertising with insights on Amazon's Rufus and Meta's latest developments. Discover the impact on consumer engagement

Explore how Audio Analyser, powered by Azure AI, transforms speech-to-text conversion, text analysis, and translations for actionable insights.

Explore the 2024 advancements in AI Prompt Engineering, uncovering innovative trends and techniques revolutionising tech and finance sectors.

Join me on my personal journey from Rust, AI, and Quantum Computing to redefining art and photography through Alien Studio.

AI trends for 2024: generative AI in finance, multimodal models, on-device LLMs and the shifts that will reshape banking and product engineering.

Explore Generative AI in 2023: how it works, where it lands first in financial services, and the ethical and architectural questions worth asking.