Kabir's Tech Dives
I'm always fascinated by new technology, especially AI. One of my biggest regrets is not taking AI electives during my undergraduate years. Now, with consumer-grade AI everywhere, I’m constantly discovering compelling use cases far beyond typical ChatGPT sessions.
As a tech founder for over 22 years, focused on niche markets, and the author of several books on web programming, Linux security, and performance, I’ve experienced the good, bad, and ugly of technology from Silicon Valley to Asia.
In this podcast, I share what excites me about the future of tech, from everyday automation to product and service development, helping to make life more efficient and productive.
Please give it a listen!
Episodes
206 episodes
🧠 Introducing GPT-4.5: OpenAI's Strongest Model for Chat
In this episode of Kabir's Tech Dives, we delve into OpenAI's most powerful chat model, GPT-4.5. The model advances scaling in pre and post-training, enhancing pattern recognition and creative insight through unsupervised learning. GPT-4...
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Season 2
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Episode 80
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15:56
🤖 Introducing Alexa+: The Next Generation of Amazon's AI Assistant
Amazon is launching Alexa+, a new version of Alexa powered by generative AI. This enhanced AI assistant aims to be more conversational, intelligent, and personalized, assisting users with various tasks. Alexa+ can manage smart homes, ...
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Season 2
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Episode 79
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8:33
Majorana 1: Million-Qubit Quantum Computing Architecture
Microsoft's YouTube video, "Majorana 1 Explained: The Path to a Million Qubits," introduces a groundbreaking advancement in quantum computing. It highlights the development of a new quantum processor, Majorana 1, based on topological qubits. Th...
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Season 2
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Episode 78
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13:09
💡 First Principles: A Startup Owner's Guide
First principles thinking is a problem-solving approach that deconstructs complex ideas into basic truths to create ground-up solutions. For tech startup owners, this means understanding the core problem, questioning assumptions, ...
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Season 2
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Episode 77
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6:37
📱 ChatGPT as Default Safari Search Engine Extension
MacRumors reports that ChatGPT can be set as the default search engine in Safari using a new extension. This update, released in February 2025, allows users to redirect Safari search bar queries to ChatGPT Search. Users must update th...
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Season 2
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Episode 60
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8:12
⚙️ LLM Distillation: A Complete Guide
The episode explores the process of LLM distillation, a technique used to create smaller, more efficient models. It outlines the basics of LLM distillation, including its benefits such as reduced cost and increased speed, as well as its limitat...
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Season 2
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Episode 79
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5:36
🍎 Knowledge Distillation: Compressing AI for Efficiency and Accessibility
Knowledge distillation is an AI technique that transfers knowledge from large, complex "teacher" models to smaller, more efficient "student" models. This process allows for the creation of compact AI models that maintain much of the inte...
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Season 2
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Episode 78
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11:09
📔 Apple, the UK, and the Future of Digital Privacy
Apple has removed its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) feature in the UK due to governmental pressure under the Investigatory Powers Act. This action weakens data encryption for UK users, making them more vulnerable to cyber threats and go...
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Season 2
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Episode 78
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11:56
⚛️ Tetron-Based Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation Roadmap
Microsoft Quantum outlines a roadmap toward fault-tolerant quantum computing using topological qubits called tetrons, focusing on Majorana zero modes. The roadmap details four generations of devices, from single-qubit benchmarking to a t...
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Season 2
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Episode 71
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11:32
⚛️ Microsoft's Majorana 1: Topological Quantum Computing Explained
For the first time in this podcast, Kabir joins the AI team to discuss Microsoft's Majorana 1, a topological quantum processor. Just like the fact that Majorana 1 is really a research demo and not a practical chip to be deployed in ...
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Season 2
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Episode 77
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10:10
🤖 AI Chatbots: A Startup Founder's Guide
The episode examines the impact of AI chatbots on tech startups, highlighting prominent models like ChatGPT, Bard, Llama, Ernie, and Grok. It emphasizes that the optimal chatbot choice depends on a startup's specific requirements, considering f...
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Season 2
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Episode 67
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9:35
Microsoft's Majorana 1 Chip: Quantum Computing Breakthrough
The episode examines the impact of AI chatbots on tech startups, highlighting prominent models like ChatGPT, Bard, Llama, Ernie, and Grok. It emphasizes that the optimal chatbot choice depends on a startup's specific requirements, considering f...
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Season 2
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Episode 70
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24:09
📈 SaaS Exit Playbook: Founder's Guide to Acquisition in 2025
The provided article outlines key considerations for SaaS founders aiming to exit in 2025. It emphasizes a shift from prioritizing rapid revenue growth to valuing profitability, efficiency, and customer retention. The acquisition market rebound...
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6:29
🤖 AI-Powered Programming: Startup Opportunities with Large Reasoning Models
Recent research from OpenAI explores how large reasoning models (LRMs) can transform coding and software development, especially for resource-constrained tech startups. The study highlights advancements in AI models like o3, which riva...
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Season 2
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Episode 66
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12:10
⚠️ Synthetic Data: Limitations and Implications for AI
Synthetic data is useful for AI training but has limitations. Over-reliance on it can lead to model collapse, bias amplification, and a failure to capture real-world complexities. This can erode trust in AI systems and stifle i...
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Season 2
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Episode 61
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8:32
💡 LIMO: Less Data, More Reasoning in Generative AI
The LIMO (Less Is More for Reasoning) research paper challenges the conventional wisdom that complex reasoning in large language models requires massive training datasets. The authors introduce the LIMO hypothesis, suggesting that sophis...
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Season 2
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Episode 61
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18:21
Behavioral AI: Detecting Deep Fakes
This episode discusses the use of Behavioral AI to combat deep fakes. It explains that unlike traditional AI, Behavioral AI analyzes patterns and anomalies in human interactions to establish authenticity baselines. The article details how this ...
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Season 2
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Episode 60
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31:54
⚙️ Model Specification for Tech Startups
This episode discusses OpenAI's "model specification" framework for tech startups to guide their operations and product development. It outlines key elements including defining a clear vision and core principles, structuring product behavior wi...
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Season 2
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Episode 60
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18:05
🍪 Oreo: Securing ASLR Against Microarchitectural Attacks
MIT researchers have developed "Oreo," a new security method to protect computer hardware from microarchitectural side attacks. These attacks exploit hardware vulnerabilities to locate and access sensitive program code. Oreo works by masking th...
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Season 2
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Episode 57
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16:39
EFF Sues OPM, DOGE, and Musk for Privacy Violations
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), along with other privacy advocacy groups, filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and Elon Musk's "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE). The suit alleges that OPM...
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Season 2
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Episode 60
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15:07
AI and the Future of Education
This episode discusses the future of education in 2040, focusing on how artificial intelligence (AI) will transform classrooms. It describes a personalized learning environment where AI empowers teachers, assisting with routine tasks and provid...
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Season 2
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Episode 55
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4:33
🚀 WebAssembly for Tech Startups
The episode discusses WebAssembly (WASM) as a transformative technology for tech startups. WASM offers significant advantages including enhanced portability across platforms, optimized performance approaching native speeds, and a simplif...
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Season 2
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Episode 56
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20:48
Safe Superintelligence Inc.
Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), a newly founded AI company, is dedicated to developing safe superintelligence. Co-founded by prominent AI figures, SSI has already secured significant funding and is assembling a top-tier team to pursue this a...
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Season 2
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Episode 56
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12:37
🤖 The AI Takeover of the Internet
The episode predicts a significant shift in internet usage by 2030, where autonomous AI agents will surpass humans as the primary online users. These AI agents, powered by large language models, will automate tasks like online research, ...
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Season 2
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Episode 57
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10:13
🤯 DSPy: An Advanced AI RAG Framework
This episode details DSPy, a sophisticated AI framework for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications developed by Stanford NLP. DSPy automates prompt optimization and reasoning, improving accuracy and efficiency compared to manu...
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Season 2
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Episode 53
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12:48
