Matthew Berman

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AI educator and YouTuber covering AI news, tutorials, and the future of artificial intelligence. Creator of Forward Future newsletter.

AGI Is an End‑to‑end Self‑improving Process, Not
SocialJan 1, 2026

AGI Is an End‑to‑end Self‑improving Process, Not

AGI isn’t a model. It’s all about the end to end process. From pre training, to training, to RL, to scaffolding. The self/improving system is AGI.

By Matthew Berman
Google Expands Beyond Transformers with Diffusion Language Model
SocialDec 31, 2025

Google Expands Beyond Transformers with Diffusion Language Model

Pretty obvious looking back. Google is betting on multiple architectures, not just transformers. This was when Google announced a diffusion-based language model.

By Matthew Berman
Cutting‑edge LLM Handles Vast Range of Tasks
SocialDec 28, 2025

Cutting‑edge LLM Handles Vast Range of Tasks

"State of the art LLM" is doing a LOT of work in this chart https://t.co/G63vslf0zd

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Personal Voice Trumps AI: Writing Remains Human‑Only
SocialDec 26, 2025

Personal Voice Trumps AI: Writing Remains Human‑Only

I’ve stopped using AI to write things for me. Conveying my thoughts accurately is too important.

By Matthew Berman
Groq Chip Memory Accelerates AI, Redefining Cloud Competition
SocialDec 25, 2025

Groq Chip Memory Accelerates AI, Redefining Cloud Competition

Good time to repost my interview with @JonathanRoss321 from April 2024. 0:00 - Intro 0:38 - Founding Story 3:20 - Groq Chip Memory 6:24 - Chips vs. Cloud 9:28 - Future of AI 11:04 - Where is the Value in AI? 13:45 - Agents & Inference...

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Nvidia Sells Chips; Groq Sells Inference—Different Playbooks
SocialDec 25, 2025

Nvidia Sells Chips; Groq Sells Inference—Different Playbooks

.@Nvidia sells chips, not inference. @GroqInc sells inference, not chips. Will be interesting to see how this strategy plays out.

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Debating NVIDIA's Chip Sales to China Amid Tensions
SocialDec 23, 2025

Debating NVIDIA's Chip Sales to China Amid Tensions

Should NVIDIA sell chips to CHINA?

By Matthew Berman
Model Speed Hinges on Infrastructure, Not Just Algorithms
SocialDec 22, 2025

Model Speed Hinges on Infrastructure, Not Just Algorithms

"Google looks because it has massive infrastructure and fewer users" SemiAnalysis president says model speed is important but it's more complicated than we think.

By Matthew Berman
👾 Universal Basic Income Focuses on Stability Not Replacing Work
BlogDec 19, 2025

👾 Universal Basic Income Focuses on Stability Not Replacing Work

The article argues that universal basic income (UBI) is a stability floor, not a plan to replace work, especially as AI accelerates job insecurity. It cites forecasts that 22% of jobs could be disrupted by 2030 and that up to...

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🧑‍🚀 UBI in the AI Age, U.S. Tech Dominance, & NVIDIA's Nemotron
BlogDec 16, 2025

🧑‍🚀 UBI in the AI Age, U.S. Tech Dominance, & NVIDIA's Nemotron

Today NVIDIA unveiled the Nemotron 3 family of open AI models, featuring a hybrid mixture‑of‑experts design that promises higher throughput and lower inference costs, with the Nano version already available and larger variants slated for 2026. The company also signaled a...

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Forward Future Live | 12/12/2025
VideoDec 12, 2025

Forward Future Live | 12/12/2025

The Forward Future Live episode on December 12, 2025 opened with hosts Matt Berman and Nick Wentz framing the week’s biggest tech headlines, most notably Time Magazine’s designation of “the architects of AI” as Person of the Year. The...

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🧑‍🚀 Hinton's Warning, Jensen on Rogan, & Meta’s Wearables Push
BlogDec 8, 2025

🧑‍🚀 Hinton's Warning, Jensen on Rogan, & Meta’s Wearables Push

Meta announced the acquisition of Limitless, a pendant‑maker, to strengthen its AI‑enabled wearables division within Reality Labs. Google unveiled Gemini 3 Pro, a multimodal model delivering record performance in vision and spatial reasoning, while Sensor Tower reported Gemini’s user growth outpacing ChatGPT’s...

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🧑‍🚀 New AI Economy, Robo-Grandmas, & Bezos’ Space Vision
BlogDec 1, 2025

🧑‍🚀 New AI Economy, Robo-Grandmas, & Bezos’ Space Vision

Artificial‑intelligence investment now powers more than 90% of U.S. GDP growth in early 2025, with $60 billion spent on computer equipment and $10 billion on data‑center construction. A handful of AI‑heavy firms such as Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet and NVIDIA account for over...

By Matthew Berman
🧑‍🚀 Palantir Profits, AI Therapy Crackdown, & Bubble Fears
BlogNov 28, 2025

🧑‍🚀 Palantir Profits, AI Therapy Crackdown, & Bubble Fears

Palantir posted a 63% revenue jump and a 248% profit surge in Q3, showing durable growth despite sky‑high AI‑era valuations. The FDA convened its first public hearing on regulating AI‑driven therapy chatbots, highlighting safety concerns as mental‑health bots proliferate. OpenAI...

By Matthew Berman
🧑‍🚀 DOE AI Mission, Classroom Upgrades & NVIDIA Chip Shake-Up
BlogNov 26, 2025

🧑‍🚀 DOE AI Mission, Classroom Upgrades & NVIDIA Chip Shake-Up

The U.S. Department of Energy announced the Genesis Mission, a national platform that stitches together the nation’s leading supercomputers, artificial‑intelligence models, quantum tools, and scientific instruments to accelerate discovery and aim for a 100% boost in research productivity by 2035....

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Anthropic Just Dropped Opus 4.5...
VideoNov 24, 2025

Anthropic Just Dropped Opus 4.5...

Claude Opus 4.5 arrived less than a week after Gemini 3 and Codex Max, positioning Anthropic at the top of the current frontier of coding‑focused large language models. The video walks through the model’s headline benchmark – a 80.9 % score on the...

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🧑‍🚀 Work Optional, Open-Source Strategy & NVIDIA’s Global Power Play
BlogNov 24, 2025

🧑‍🚀 Work Optional, Open-Source Strategy & NVIDIA’s Global Power Play

The post examines how open‑source AI strategies and massive corporate bets are reshaping the global AI landscape, highlighting concerns that the U.S. may fall behind China if it continues to keep key research proprietary. It details the $15 billion Microsoft‑NVIDIA investment...

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I Tested Gemini 3 and It's INSANE...
VideoNov 22, 2025

I Tested Gemini 3 and It's INSANE...

Gemini 3, Google’s latest multimodal AI model, is showcased in a rapid‑fire demo that highlights its ability to generate complex, interactive applications with minimal prompting. The presenter walks through a series of prototypes—including a voxel‑art robot generator, a real‑time ray‑tracing...

By Matthew Berman
Forward Future Live | 11/21/25
VideoNov 21, 2025

Forward Future Live | 11/21/25

Forward Future Live aired on November 21, 2025, featuring a panel of AI leaders—Himanshu Tayagi of Sentient, Misha Laskin of Reflection AI, NVIDIA’s Brian Catanzaro, and Google Search VP Robbie Stein—who examined the accelerating wave of open‑source artificial intelligence and its impact...

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Forward Future Live | 11/21/25
VideoNov 21, 2025

Forward Future Live | 11/21/25

The Forward Future Live episode opened with a rapid rundown of the latest earnings from the leading AI‑hardware maker, reporting $57 billion in revenue – a 62 % jump year‑over‑year – with operating income at $36 billion and net income at $32 billion, both...

By Matthew Berman
🧑‍🚀 NVIDIA Earnings, AI Classroom Shift & Google’s Nano Banana Pro
BlogNov 21, 2025

🧑‍🚀 NVIDIA Earnings, AI Classroom Shift & Google’s Nano Banana Pro

The post surveys several AI‑related developments: Google’s new Gemini‑3‑based Nano Banana Pro model enhances precise image creation and editing; NVIDIA posted a record $31.9 B profit driven by AI data‑center chips but faces scrutiny over its "circular" customer‑investment sales model; ChatGPT...

By Matthew Berman
🧑‍🚀 Humanity’s Last Prompt Engineering Guide: Built for the Gemini 3Era
BlogNov 19, 2025

🧑‍🚀 Humanity’s Last Prompt Engineering Guide: Built for the Gemini 3Era

The post announces a new, practical guide for mastering Google’s Gemini 3, arguing that traditional prompt‑engineering tactics are obsolete and that users must now orchestrate AI through multimodal workflows and ambient integration. It outlines key techniques such as the Deep...

By Matthew Berman
🧑‍🚀 Bezos’ $6.2B AI Bet, EU Rule Shift & Anthropic Model Flaws
BlogNov 18, 2025

🧑‍🚀 Bezos’ $6.2B AI Bet, EU Rule Shift & Anthropic Model Flaws

Bezos launches $6.2B engineering AI, Europe eases tech rules, Anthropic finds LLM introspection gaps, Google updates AI weather & travel, AI scales podcasts.

By Matthew Berman
🧑‍🚀 AI Chips Race, Google’s SIMA 2 Leap & China’s Cyber Automation
BlogNov 14, 2025

🧑‍🚀 AI Chips Race, Google’s SIMA 2 Leap & China’s Cyber Automation

The post surveys the fast‑moving AI landscape, highlighting Google’s SIMA 2 agent that doubles virtual‑world performance, Microsoft’s adoption of OpenAI’s custom chip designs, and OpenAI’s GPT‑5.1 with adaptive reasoning speed. It also notes AI’s expanding influence in commerce, music, and even...

By Matthew Berman
Famous Investor Calls AI a Bubble...
VideoNov 12, 2025

Famous Investor Calls AI a Bubble...

Michael Burry has taken a large short position on the AI sector, echoing his 2008 housing‑market bet, while other savvy investors like SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son are reshuffling exposure, dumping Nvidia shares and pouring billions into OpenAI. Despite concerns of a...

By Matthew Berman
🧑‍🚀 Untouchable ASML, SoftBank’s NVIDIA Sale & Meta Talent Shake-Up
BlogNov 12, 2025

🧑‍🚀 Untouchable ASML, SoftBank’s NVIDIA Sale & Meta Talent Shake-Up

The post highlights major AI‑related moves: Yann LeCun’s exit from Meta to launch a world‑model startup, SoftBank’s full sale of its $5.8 B NVIDIA stake to fund new AI bets, and Meta’s open‑source Omnilingual ASR supporting 1,600+ languages. It also notes...

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👾 Anthropic Chose Boring Over Viral, and It’s Paying Off
BlogNov 11, 2025

👾 Anthropic Chose Boring Over Viral, and It’s Paying Off

Anthropic deliberately shuns consumer‑focused, viral AI demos in favor of building safe, reliable solutions for heavily regulated enterprises such as banks, hospitals, and Fortune 500 firms. By positioning itself as an unconflicted partner, offering safety‑first models like Claude Code, and scaling through...

By Matthew Berman
Is AI Alive?!?!
VideoNov 10, 2025

Is AI Alive?!?!

Anthropic’s new paper on emergent introspective awareness demonstrates that large language models can detect internally injected cues, such as all‑caps text implying shouting, without relying on post‑hoc chain‑of‑thought reasoning. In a series of four experiments, the Opus 4.1 and Opus 4 models...

By Matthew Berman
👾 The Line Is Disappearing: Inside Figma's Bet on AI-Native Product Development
BlogNov 9, 2025

👾 The Line Is Disappearing: Inside Figma's Bet on AI-Native Product Development

The post explores Figma CTO Kris Rasmussen’s vision of AI‑native product development, where design and code merge through tools like the Model Context Protocol that feed rich design context to AI assistants such as GitHub Copilot, enabling seamless integration with...

By Matthew Berman
Kimi K2 Thinking Is CRAZY... (HUGE UPDATE)
VideoNov 7, 2025

Kimi K2 Thinking Is CRAZY... (HUGE UPDATE)

Moonshot Labs unveiled Kimi K2 Thinking, a fully open‑source, open‑weights frontier AI model with roughly a trillion parameters that outperforms GPT‑5 and Claude Sonnet 4.5 on several tough benchmarks, including Humanity's Last Exam (44.9 vs. 41.7), BrowseComp (60.2% vs. 54.9%),...

By Matthew Berman
Forward Future Live | 11/7/25
VideoNov 7, 2025

Forward Future Live | 11/7/25

On Forward Future Live (Nov. 7, 2025) hosts discussed a flurry of major AI industry moves: OpenAI struck a multi‑year compute deal with AWS amid a wave of infrastructure agreements (including large commitments tied to NVIDIA, AMD and others) that...

By Matthew Berman
👾 Day in the Life of a Researcher at Microsoft
BlogNov 6, 2025

👾 Day in the Life of a Researcher at Microsoft

The post profiles two Microsoft AI and quantum researchers, Trista Chen and Flavio Griggio, detailing their daily routines, research focus, and personal motivations. Chen leads work on AI trust, emphasizing live‑person authentication, anti‑spoofing, and the broader pipeline needed for responsible...

By Matthew Berman
👾 The Orchestration Era: How AI Agents Will Transform Work (Without Replacing Workers)
BlogNov 6, 2025

👾 The Orchestration Era: How AI Agents Will Transform Work (Without Replacing Workers)

Silvio Savarese, Salesforce’s chief scientist, envisions an "Orchestration Era" where AI agents—autonomous systems that break down goals into tasks and act independently—are directed by humans acting as conductors rather than replaced by bots. He explains that agents differ from copilots...

By Matthew Berman
🧑‍🚀 New Interview, AI Surveillance & Google’s Space Compute
BlogNov 5, 2025

🧑‍🚀 New Interview, AI Surveillance & Google’s Space Compute

The post surveys a wave of AI‑related announcements, from China’s rollout of expanded surveillance systems to SAP’s launch of its RPT‑1 AI platform. It highlights Google’s experimental “space compute” project that runs AI models on satellites and notes Shopify’s sharp...

By Matthew Berman
Ex-OpenAI Founder Deposition Is WILD
VideoNov 4, 2025

Ex-OpenAI Founder Deposition Is WILD

A deposition of former OpenAI co‑founder Ilya Sutskever, taken on Oct. 1, 2025, reveals he drafted a 52‑page memo urging the board to fire CEO Sam Altman, citing alleged lies, internal power‑plays and safety‑process misrepresentations. The memo was prepared at...

By Matthew Berman
🧑‍🚀 AI Diplomacy, Trump Limits NVIDIA’s Chips, & $38B Compute Partnership
BlogNov 4, 2025

🧑‍🚀 AI Diplomacy, Trump Limits NVIDIA’s Chips, & $38B Compute Partnership

The post highlights three major AI developments: a $38 billion multi‑year compute partnership between OpenAI and AWS, President Trump’s restriction of NVIDIA’s Blackwell chips to U.S. firms, and Microsoft’s $15.2 billion AI investment in the UAE that tests U.S. export‑control policy. It...

By Matthew Berman
🧑‍🚀 THE SUBTLE ART OF NOT GETTING REPLACED
BlogNov 4, 2025

🧑‍🚀 THE SUBTLE ART OF NOT GETTING REPLACED

The post presents a hands‑on playbook titled “The Subtle Art of Not Getting Replaced,” aimed at turning readers into AI power users through practical, ready‑to‑apply examples. It outlines a consistent format for each AI use case—what it is, why it...

By Matthew Berman
👾 Live From Dreamforce: Marc Benioff on AI's Promise and Limits
BlogNov 2, 2025

👾 Live From Dreamforce: Marc Benioff on AI's Promise and Limits

At Dreamforce 2025, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff balanced optimism about AI’s transformative potential with a realistic appraisal of its current limits, emphasizing that AI augments rather than replaces human work. He highlighted Salesforce’s concrete AI deployment—matching human‑agent satisfaction while reshaping...

By Matthew Berman
Forward Future Live | 10/31/25
VideoOct 31, 2025

Forward Future Live | 10/31/25

Fireworks AI co‑founder Lin Chow announced a $250 million Series C round that lifts the company’s valuation to $4 billion and highlighted its application‑tuned AI inference cloud that continuously adapts models to specific workloads. The platform lets developers plug in usage data so...

By Matthew Berman
Robot Cooking Assistants Need Michelin-Quality Training Data
SocialOct 29, 2025

Robot Cooking Assistants Need Michelin-Quality Training Data

$150/hour to have a robot watch you cook? Matt and Nick discuss the important things... overcooked meat, whether robots should wash their hands, and the quality of training data for humanoid robots: Michelin-star chefs vs. Chef Boyardee? https://t.co/k8XZfSOilZ

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Gemini's $100B Quarter Shows Unprecedented Money‑printing Scale
SocialOct 29, 2025

Gemini's $100B Quarter Shows Unprecedented Money‑printing Scale

The greatest money printing engine of all time continues. $100b quarter (!!!) is absolutely nuts. Gemini alone is doing: > 7B tokens per minute > 650M MOAs > 300M paid subscribers https://t.co/v6ECBV9FP2

By Matthew Berman
Optimistic Yet Cautious: Balancing AI Progress and Safety
SocialOct 29, 2025

Optimistic Yet Cautious: Balancing AI Progress and Safety

Zoomer or Doomer? Matt Wolfe (@mreflow) on finding the middle ground between optimism and caution in AI. “I probably lean more optimistic, my whole career is sharing AI news and tools, but I still fall somewhere in between.” “We should push forward as...

By Matthew Berman
👾 Formula 1's Unexpected Edge: Why Racing Matters More as Cars Drive Themselves
BlogOct 29, 2025

👾 Formula 1's Unexpected Edge: Why Racing Matters More as Cars Drive Themselves

As autonomous driving advances, Formula 1 is experiencing a counterintuitive boom by leaning into human drama and high‑performance spectacle rather than technical obsolescence. F1 has modernized operations—shifting to a hybrid broadcast model that halved on‑site staff and leveraging partners like...

By Matthew Berman
AI Turns Holiday Shopping Into Instant Conversational Recommendations
SocialOct 29, 2025

AI Turns Holiday Shopping Into Instant Conversational Recommendations

3... 7... 20...? How many Labubus are you buying this year? Holiday shopping is right around the corner, and it will look completely different this year. Alex Sherman, CEO of @Bluefish_AI, on how AI is changing online shopping forever: “Last year,...

By Matthew Berman
AI Tech Is Real, but Valuations Are a Bubble
SocialOct 29, 2025

AI Tech Is Real, but Valuations Are a Bubble

Are we in an AI bubble? Is it about to burst? Let’s ask Matt Wolfe (@mreflow). “Some companies deserve their valuations, but most of what we’re seeing right now in AI looks insane.” “I’m seeing startups valued at 50× annual revenue....

By Matthew Berman
🧑‍🚀 AGI Partnerships, NVIDIA Announcements & OpenAI’s $135B Shift
BlogOct 29, 2025

🧑‍🚀 AGI Partnerships, NVIDIA Announcements & OpenAI’s $135B Shift

OpenAI completed a legal recapitalization into a public-benefit for-profit structure that gives Microsoft a roughly 27% stake valued at about $135 billion while a controlling non‑profit foundation holds 26%, a move that unlocked $30 billion from SoftBank and includes a...

By Matthew Berman
Speedy AI Launches Sacrifice Safety for Profit
SocialOct 28, 2025

Speedy AI Launches Sacrifice Safety for Profit

Matt Wolfe (@mreflow) on the race to build AI faster, and the risks that come with it. “Companies want to move fast to maximize profits and be first to market, but that often means jumping over guardrails meant for safety.” “We’ve seen...

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AI Forces Brands to Rebuild Marketing Funnels From Scratch
SocialOct 28, 2025

AI Forces Brands to Rebuild Marketing Funnels From Scratch

Almost every brand will need to rebuild their marketing funnel from the ground up. Alex Sherman, CEO of @Bluefish_AI, explains how brands are adapting to AI: “Marketers have always split budgets between organic and paid, but AI is forcing a rethink. What’s...

By Matthew Berman
AI Automation Boosts Value of Handcrafted, Human-Made Experiences
SocialOct 27, 2025

AI Automation Boosts Value of Handcrafted, Human-Made Experiences

FROM THE LIVE SHOW: “Even if a robot can cook better than Thomas Keller, you’ll still want to eat at the French Laundry, because you know Thomas Keller made the meal.” As AI floods the web with generated content, Runway (@runwayco)...

By Matthew Berman