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

AVELIN is Live: A Three-Year Journey to a New AI

Today, we are officially launching AVELIN—the Artificial Intelligence my team and I have been building for the last three years. Our journey began with humble pilots, experimenting with the first GPT models and running foundational tests. We quickly evolved from simple, single-model chatbots to developing our own proprietary training system, complete with knowledge ingestion, document storage, and our first implementations of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). ...

17 July, 2025 · 2 min · 314 words · Yury Akinin

AI's Two Speeds: Why Biomedicine Is Leaping Forward While Business Lags Behind

Artificial intelligence is accelerating biomedical discovery at a pace that seemed like science fiction just a few years ago. Where creating a new antibody, sequencing a protein, or detecting a tumor once took years, millions of dollars, and dozens of specialists, it now requires mere hours or weeks, driven by automation and radically different budgets. Consider these breakthroughs from June alone: ...

30 June, 2025 · 2 min · 390 words · Yury Akinin

Adhocracy in IT: The Operating System for Modern Startups

In traditional companies, everything is built on a clear hierarchy: decisions are made at the top and executed at the bottom. This approach might work in a stable environment, but for an IT startup, especially in AI, it stifles growth. IT companies need adhocracy: a management model where competence and results are valued more than titles. It’s about flexibility over bureaucracy and speed over approvals. The value of an idea is judged by its effectiveness, not by the position of its author. ...

28 April, 2025 · 1 min · 192 words · Yury Akinin

A Founder’s DNA: My Top 5 CliftonStrengths

I recently completed the Gallup CliftonStrengths assessment, which involves 200 questions with a strict 20-second limit for each. The value of this test is that it doesn’t force you into a rigid ‘personality type.’ Instead, it identifies the five most dominant talents out of 34 that define your unique style of working and making decisions. Here are my top 5 results: ...

1 February, 2025 · 2 min · 217 words · Yury Akinin