Category: Blog

  • Why the same LLM hangs on one provider and flies on another: cold starts and keep-warm

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    Ng Chong

    One of our chat apps lets you choose which model answers you, and for most of those choices it was fine. Point it at DeepSeek running on Azure, though, ask a reasoning-heavy question, and the screen would freeze for anywhere from a few seconds to most of a minute before the first word appeared. The…

  • Project Perception Is in Public Preview. Now Comes the Evidence Test.

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    Ng Chong

    Microsoft’s new agentic security platform promises to find risks, investigate threats, and help remediate them with coordinated AI agents. The question now is whether the evidence matches the ambition. Microsoft’s Project Perception is a new AI-driven cybersecurity platform designed to automate large parts of the security operations lifecycle. Rather than acting as a chatbot or…

  • The Concordia Simulation Builder Is Now Open Source

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    Ng Chong

    In May we introduced the Concordia Simulation Builder, a web application developed at the United Nations University that makes Google DeepMind’s Concordia framework for generative agent-based simulation accessible without writing code. At the time, we promised the source code would be released once the accompanying paper was published. That day has come. Our paper, “Democratizing AI Social Simulation: A…

  • Following research into the halls of power: how we traced our work into policy

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    Ng Chong

    Every researcher knows the quiet thrill of a citation. Someone read your paper, found it useful, and built on it. But an academic citation only tells you that other academics noticed. It says nothing about whether your work reached the places where real decisions get made: a finance ministry’s budget, a global development strategy, a…