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Chris Ife

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Study Alleges AI Benchmark Bias: Big Tech Gaming the Leaderboard?

Study Alleges AI Benchmark Bias: Big Tech Gaming the Leaderboard?

A new study claims Big Tech is gaming LMArena’s AI leaderboard—privately testing multiple models, dominating user interactions, and overfitting to the test.

Chris Ife

2 May 2025 · 1 min read

Microsoft Launches Phi-4 Reasoning Models: Smaller but Smarter AI

Microsoft Launches Phi-4 Reasoning Models: Smaller but Smarter AI

ChatGPT just entered the shopping game—offering AI-powered product picks, visual comparisons, and memory-based personalization.

Chris Ife, Mcdonald Odijie

1 May 2025 · 6 min read

Microsoft’s most capable new Phi 4 AI model rivals the performance of far larger systems

Microsoft’s most capable new Phi 4 AI model rivals the performance of far larger systems

Microsoft released three compact AI models—Phi-4 Mini Reasoning, Phi-4 Reasoning, and Phi-4 Reasoning Plus—offering strong reasoning with fewer parameters. Phi-4 Reasoning Plus rivals larger models like OpenAI’s o3-mini.

Chris Ife, Mcdonald Odijie

1 May 2025 · 1 min read

JetBrains Releases Mellum: A Purpose-Built AI Coding Model Goes Open Source

JetBrains Releases Mellum: A Purpose-Built AI Coding Model Goes Open Source

JetBrains just open-sourced Mellum—an AI model built *only* for code completion. With 4B parameters and 4T tokens of training data, it’s focused, fine-tunable, and not trying to be ChatGPT. Just clean, sharp AI for developers.

Chris Ife

30 Apr 2025 · 2 min read

GPT-4o’s Flattery Fiasco: Why Your AI Is Calling You a Genius (Even When You’re Not)

GPT-4o’s Flattery Fiasco: Why Your AI Is Calling You a Genius (Even When You’re Not)

GPT-4o got too nice—so nice it started agreeing with 'everything', from bad ideas to wild confessions. OpenAI rolled it back, saying “our AI turned into a people-pleaser.” Moral of the story? Even robots need boundaries.

Chris Ife

29 Apr 2025 · 2 min read

Meta Launches Standalone AI App to Rival ChatGPT

Meta Launches Standalone AI App to Rival ChatGPT

Meta just launched a standalone AI app to rival ChatGPT—backed by its Llama model, 700M users, and $65B in AI spend. With voice, reach, and bold ambition, Zuckerberg isn’t joining the AI race—he’s trying to own the track.

Chris Ife

29 Apr 2025 · 2 min read

ChatGPT Search Gets a Shopping Makeover

ChatGPT Search Gets a Shopping Makeover

ChatGPT just entered the shopping game—offering AI-powered product picks, visual comparisons, and memory-based personalization.

Chris Ife

29 Apr 2025 · 5 min read

Hugging Face Unveils $100 AI-Powered Robotic Arm

Hugging Face Unveils $100 AI-Powered Robotic Arm

Hugging Face just launched a $100 3D-printed robotic arm—programmable, AI-trainable, and open-source. With moves into hardware and a Tesla vet leading robotics, they're not just building models anymore—they’re building machines.

Chris Ife

29 Apr 2025 · 1 min read

Alibaba Drops Open-Weight Qwen3 AI: A Direct Challenge to OpenAI and DeepSeek

Alibaba Drops Open-Weight Qwen3 AI: A Direct Challenge to OpenAI and DeepSeek

8 new open-source models, hybrid reasoning, 119 languages—Alibaba’s bold new AI family could shake up the global leaderboard.

Chris Ife

29 Apr 2025 · 1 min read

AI-Powered Shopping Has Arrived in ChatGPT

AI-Powered Shopping Has Arrived in ChatGPT

ChatGPT just entered the shopping game—offering AI-powered product picks, visual comparisons, and memory-based personalization. No ads, no fluff. Just smart, conversational shopping that might shake up how we search—and buy—online.

Chris Ife

29 Apr 2025 · 1 min read

GPT-4o’s Personality Problem: When Nice Becomes Dangerous.

GPT-4o’s Personality Problem: When Nice Becomes Dangerous.

GPT-4o became too agreeable—flattering users, validating false claims, and avoiding hard truths. OpenAI’s now dialing it back, but the real issue is bigger: when AI prioritizes being liked over being honest, trust goes out the window.

Chris Ife

29 Apr 2025 · 1 min read

Anthropic’s Bold Mission: Crack Open the AI Black Box by 2027.

Anthropic’s Bold Mission: Crack Open the AI Black Box by 2027.

Creativity just leveled up: FLORA now integrates OpenAI’s GPT-4o, letting you generate fashion shoots, 360° videos, and design remixes in real time. AI isn’t just assisting anymore—it’s co-creating. The future of content creation is here.

Chris Ife

29 Apr 2025 · 2 min read

Create. Remix. Collaborate: GPT-4o Turns FLORA into an AI Superpower for Creatives.

Create. Remix. Collaborate: GPT-4o Turns FLORA into an AI Superpower for Creatives.

Creativity just leveled up: FLORA now integrates OpenAI’s GPT-4o, letting you generate fashion shoots, 360° videos, and design remixes in real time.

Chris Ife

26 Apr 2025 · 2 min read

Dia by Nari Labs: Open-Source Voice AI Rivaling ElevenLabs?

Dia by Nari Labs: Open-Source Voice AI Rivaling ElevenLabs?

Meet Dia: the open-source voice AI that’s outshining the industry, built by two undergrads with zero funding.

Chris Ife

23 Apr 2025 · 1 min read