My Take on GPT-5, OpenAI's Strategy, and the Dawn of 'AI Time'

A recent Forbes article by John Sviokla put a name to something many of us in the AI space have been feeling: the shift to AI Time. It’s the idea that the tempo of innovation and organizational operations is no longer dictated by human speed, but by the near-instantaneous cycle of silicon intelligence. OpenAI’s GPT-5 launch is a masterclass in this new reality. It wasn’t a simple model update; it was a multi-front strategic deployment that reshapes the competitive landscape. I see it as a “quadruple play” that establishes a new baseline for the industry. ...

13 August, 2025 · 3 min · 582 words · Yury Akinin

Google Opal: A New Era for App Creation or a Walled Garden?

The No-Code AI Revolution Gets a Major Player Google’s recent launch of Opal, an AI-powered platform for building apps without code, is a significant move. The premise is simple and powerful: describe an application in plain English, and the platform builds it. By combining natural language processing with a drag-and-drop interface, Google aims to democratize app development, making it accessible to entrepreneurs, educators, and businesses without technical teams. Opal is designed to translate ideas directly into functional tools. Users can create workflows, integrate various AI models, and build personalized applications for tasks like automating data entry or generating customized content. For non-technical users, this is a game-changer, removing the primary barrier to entry—the need for coding expertise. ...

6 August, 2025 · 2 min · 415 words · Yury Akinin

Beyond the Interface: 5 Key Differentiators of Modern AI Models

Users see a chat window. Sometimes voice, sometimes images. But behind this familiar interface lie radically different architectures and capabilities. Here are five key parameters that distinguish the top AI models in 2025: 1. Memory (Context Window) This defines how much information a model can retain within a single conversation. GPT-4o: 128k tokens (~300 pages of text) Claude 3 Opus & Gemini 2.5 Pro: Up to 1 million tokens (~2,000 pages) DeepSeek-VL Mini: ~8k tokens (~20 pages) More memory enables greater context and reduces hallucinations, but it also demands more powerful hardware. ...

19 April, 2025 · 2 min · 367 words · Yury Akinin