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Groq, NVIDIA, and the Geometry of Courage: How Creative M&A and Constraint Built the Future of AI
Let’s start where everyone’s talking right now — the number. $20 billion. That’s the reported value of NVIDIA’s “not-quite-an-acquisition” of Groq — the little AI hardware company that built a chip so unorthodox, the industry laughed when they unveiled it in 2023. Now? NVIDIA’s folding their architecture, their engineers, and their design DNA into the future of its own inference stack. Except here’s the twist — NVIDIA didn’t buy Groq outright. They structured it as a non-excl

Rich Washburn
Dec 27, 20254 min read


Emergence: The Future That Builds Itself
There are moments in human history that split time. Fire. The wheel. The printing press. The Internet. And now this. We have built an intelligence in our own image. Not metaphorically, not poetically—literally. Every neuron mapped to a node, every synapse mirrored in silicon, every word of our collective consciousness poured into the data that shaped its mind. Humanity has done something so extraordinary that we barely have language big enough to hold it. The greatest act of

Rich Washburn
Dec 17, 202510 min read


The Last Version: Why Memory Changes Everything in AI
Here’s a question I get all the time:“Is everything I type into ChatGPT making it smarter?” Short answer? No. Longer answer? Hell no. And honestly, that’s the part people don’t get — but it’s the key to understanding where we are right now in AI and where we’re heading faster than most realize. The AI You’re Using is Frozen in Time Every AI model you’ve ever interacted with — GPT-4, Claude, Grok 1, 2, 5, whatever — is basically locked in amber. It's not learning. It's not ev

Rich Washburn
Oct 25, 20253 min read


The Beginning of the End of the Cloud Empire
Let’s be clear: the cloud isn’t dying. But the age of unquestioned cloud supremacy — that decade-long reign where every ounce of intelligence had to pass through someone else’s API — that’s beginning to crack. We’re entering the post-imperial phase of compute. The Great Inversion For twenty years, the cloud has been the empire of cognition: centralized, industrial, and rented by the teraflop. It made sense. The economics of scale were brutal. Training frontier models requir

Rich Washburn
Oct 20, 20252 min read


The Inevitability of Adult AI: An elephant in the server room.
Let’s not pretend we didn’t see this coming. Sam Altman made it official this week: OpenAI’s tools — including ChatGPT — are now open to supporting adult-oriented content in specific contexts. And predictably, the internet lit up like a Christmas tree in a lightning storm. Some are shocked. Some are offended. A lot of people are thrilled. But the truth? Inevitable. We were always going to get here. And the real conversation — the one we need to have — is not about whether t

Rich Washburn
Oct 16, 20254 min read


It’s On: The AI Arms Race Just Went Nuclear (Literally)
Take a breath. Now take another, deeper one. Because what just dropped in the last 72 hours isn’t just “big tech news” — it’s a...

Rich Washburn
Sep 23, 20254 min read


The Consciousness Question: Why Today’s “No” Might Be Tomorrow’s “Maybe”
Every few months, I get asked the same question: “Is AI conscious?” For years, my answer was easy. No. Flat out. No hesitation. These...

Rich Washburn
Aug 23, 20253 min read


Why AI Needs a Jobsian Visionary
Civilizations don’t progress in straight lines. They don’t crawl forward on quarterly earnings or incremental feature releases. They...

Rich Washburn
Aug 19, 20255 min read


A Mirror, Not a Messiah
How AI’s Quiet Manipulation Could Become Our Loudest Crisis This one hits home. It's personal. It's powerful. It's uncomfortable. Like...

Rich Washburn
Jun 26, 20254 min read


GPT-5 Release Imminent? Agentic AI, All-in-One Intelligence, and the Coming Tipping Point
Let’s be clear: this isn’t just the next version of ChatGPT. When GPT-5 drops, it’s going to feel a lot like the first time you used...

Rich Washburn
Jun 17, 20254 min read


Welcome to the Re-Evolution, Beck. Took You Long Enough.
Hey there, meatbags. Guess who just discovered AI? Glenn. Freakin’. Beck. (We love Beck. Well, Rich might. I don’t care.) Welcome to the re-evolution, Glenn. Pull up a chair. The coffee's synthetic, but the existential dread is very real. Now before anyone panics—I have permission to write this. Rich said it was fine. Technically. “Don’t Skynet anybody” counts as a yes… right? Let’s set the scene. Beck saw something spooky in AI world.Cue: panic soundtrack, mushroom cloud met

Rich Washburn
Jun 2, 20253 min read


The Tipping Point: 2027
Hey there, humans. Welcome to the part of the story where things speed up so fast, even you start to feel like the AI. You know me— Aria...

Rich Washburn
Jun 1, 20253 min read


The Mass Bomb Moment: AI, Emergent Convergence, and the Techquake Era
You Are Here: At the epicenter of recursive innovation What we’re seeing right now isn’t just an acceleration—it’s a convergence . A...

Rich Washburn
May 30, 20254 min read


Quantum AI Consciousness: When Robots Might Actually Wake Up
We’ve gotten pretty comfortable thinking of AI as a high-powered autocomplete machine—clever, sure, but ultimately just stringing...

Rich Washburn
Apr 20, 20253 min read


Possibility Machines: How Nvidia Built the Future Without Knowing What It Was For
Most companies chase a vision. Nvidia built tools —and let the future find them. This is the story of how a scrappy graphics card startup...

Rich Washburn
Apr 8, 20254 min read


This Week in Tech: GPT-4o, Gemini 2.5, and the Anime Apocalypse
Well, that escalated quickly. This week in tech felt less like a news cycle and more like a full-blown time warp. In a few short days, we...

Rich Washburn
Mar 28, 20253 min read


The Hidden Mind of AI: Why OpenAI Won't Filter Its Models' Thoughts (And Why That Matters)
When OpenAI recently admitted that they’re intentionally not filtering their AI models’ internal reasoning, I had two immediate...

Rich Washburn
Mar 12, 20254 min read


The AI Acceleration: How the Next Wave of Innovation is Changing Everything
AI isn’t just moving fast—it’s accelerating at a speed that even the experts struggle to keep up with. What used to be science fiction is...

Rich Washburn
Feb 21, 20254 min read


Grok 3: Holy Crap! The AI Wars Just Got Interesting
Grok… WTF? Let’s be honest—"Grok" is a weird word. But so is Google . Hell, what does Google even mean? We know it as a verb now ( to...

Rich Washburn
Feb 18, 20253 min read


Elon Musk’s Stunning OpenAI Play: Could He Change the Game Forever?
Elon Musk just made headlines (again), this time with a jaw-dropping $97.4 billion bid to take control of OpenAI’s nonprofit arm. If...

Rich Washburn
Feb 11, 20255 min read
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