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March 21, 2025

When to use a specialized AI tool vs. an LLM

If you’re hitting the limits of your LLM because you need more data or niche training, you’re likely doing a lot of high-end knowledge work – and that’s where specialized AI tools come into play.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
6 mins
For students
AI
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March 14, 2025

We tested two Deep Research tools. One was unusable.

Two LLMs have released Deep Research features without much of a splash. So if you’ve been wondering about them (and don’t want to pay the $200/month price tag), read on for our Chief of Staff’s take on ChatGPT vs. Gemini.

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Greg Shove
Ana Silva
6 mins
For students
AI
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March 7, 2025

How an agency is preparing for AI clients

AI has put a big question mark over the future of agencies. So we talked to David Freas, Managing Partner at Supermoon, about how he’s transforming his brand agency with AI agent teammates – and for AI agent clients.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
5 mins
For students
AI
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February 28, 2025

AI can think now. What does that mean for you?

The next stage of LLMs is here: AI that “thinks,” or breaks down problems step-by-step like a human would. Here’s how we got here, and what it means for how you use AI.

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Greg Shove
Chase Ballard
5 mins
For students
AI
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December 19, 2023

What you actually need to know about how AI works

Right now, AI chatbots seem like magic, and that’s dangerous. It makes it easy to overestimate their abilities. You don’t need to know every technical detail of how AI works – but you do need to know enough to understand its limitations. 

Dive into what you really need to know about how AI works.

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Greg Shove
Taylor Malmsheimer, Head of Strategy
7 mins
For students
AI
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December 12, 2023

How we built a generative AI bot

By summer 2023, we were convinced we needed to use AI to improve our student experience. From August to October, we designed, built, and prototyped an AI course tutor called ProfAI. In today's post, we'll walk you through how we did it.

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Greg Shove
Greg Shove, CEO
7 mins
For students
AI
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October 29, 2024

How the Royal Family’s AI-powered mental health agent overcame privacy concerns

Most orgs feel unready for the challenges that Gen AI brings to risk management. Yet many AI applications will have to navigate the line between user value and user privacy. So we sat down with specialist, Brian Kolodny, to understand how he traversed matters of privacy when building a mental health bot for the Royal Family’s foundation.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
4 mins
For companies
AI
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October 25, 2024

Our Guide to Building Enterprise AI Applications

Every company needs to be thinking about where AI slots into their product or service, but all the noise and hype makes it hard to determine what a valuable vs. novel use case looks like. Machine & Partners’ Ed Ortega is sharing 2 frameworks to narrow down your laundry list of AI ideas.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
5 mins
For companies
AI

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