Category: Blog

  • Google’s Most Intelligent AI Model

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    Ng S.T. Chong

    Google has officially launched Gemini 3, marking a significant milestone in the rapidly evolving AI landscape. Released on November 18, 2025, this latest iteration represents Google’s most advanced AI model to date, coming just seven months after the Gemini 2.5 release and entering a fiercely competitive market alongside OpenAI’s GPT-5.1 and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5. What…

  • The Agent Has Landed: Why Kimi K2 Thinking Is More Than Just a New AI Model

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    Ng S.T. Chong

    The year opened with DeepSeek, and it seems to be closing with another DeepSeek moment — Kimi taking the stage. It’s not just another iterative update.  The release of Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2 Thinking [1] [2] is a pivotal event, a “Sputnik moment” that redefines the frontier of AI competition. For the past few years,…

  • The Politeness Paradox: Why Being Rude to AI Unlocks Shockingly Better Results

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    Ng S.T. Chong

    We’re all taught from a young age to say “please” and “thank you.” It’s the social glue that makes interactions smooth, respectful, and effective. We carry this habit into our conversations with AI assistants, politely asking Siri for the weather or thanking ChatGPT for a summary. It feels natural, right? But what if this ingrained…

  • How Far Can AI Read? A New Multilingual Test Reveals Surprising Winners and Worrying Gaps

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    Ng S.T. Chong

    If you’ve ever used ChatGPT or similar AI tools, you’ve likely been impressed by their ability to answer questions, write emails, or summarize documents. But what happens when you ask these systems to process book-length documents in different languages? A new study reveals some startling truths about AI’s linguistic capabilities and its surprising weaknesses. Long-context…