The Watershed

"There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen."

At its introduction in 1909, the basic Ford Model T cost about the equivalent of AU$42,000.

With no warning, Apple just released new Mac mini and Mac Studio models, both targeted squarely at AI inferencing.

I've been having too much fun with the new home watershed AI models.

A programmer, upset that Amazon had turned his Fire tablet into a stupid piece of plastic and silicon by refusing to support it, turned AI loose on the problem.

It's been quite a week for the Home Watershed.

With every day that passes, another model joins the ranks at the frontier.

Timing.

There’s one very significant catch: it feels slow—especially when it starts over-thinking, but even without that it’s not particularly sprightly. - Simon Willison on Qwen3.8-27B The weekend was spent running a series of tests on the new Qwen3.8-27B model.

Two weeks.

The business watershed needs more than one kind of intelligence.

This week will see the public release of Qwen3.8 Max, the new flagship model from Alibaba.

Google invented the Transformer in 2017.

Apple could own SME agents outright.

The Watershed - the moment cognitive work collapsed to near-zero marginal cost - looked like a one-off event.