Ashok Gelal
Just like many of us, I was very skeptical of AI at first. Was AI a real game-changer, or just another fad like NFTs, Crypto, Web3, and so many others?
Then OpenAI came out with ChatGPT. And when, shortly after, my 7th-grader niece mentioned their teacher was making plans to use it in the classroom, I knew something was different this time around.
And for a while there I thought OpenAI would run away with the whole market – but man, am I glad to be wrong!
Recent reasoning models from DeepSeek, mind-blowing image generative capabilities from Goolge Gemini, MCP Tools from Anthropic, etc. show that this is just the beginning, and that AI innovation is happening at an unprecedented pace.
As someone making an app on top of these models, I am super excited to see where this is all going to take us. Will AI replace us? I'm not sure. But I believe those of us who learn how to use it will definitely have an edge.
I wasn't around for the original Internet boom, so I am not going to sit this one out. Now excuse me, as I need to check out a just-announced new model that is supposed to be faster, cheaper, and better than anything else out there!