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  • The Most Expensive Model: o1-Pro Deep Reasoning
    By Jorge Pereira • 2026-06-24
    The AI landscape has shifted from a race for sheer size to a race for deep reasoning. In this new era, one model stands alone as an absolute financial and computational outlier: OpenAI’s o1-Pro. As of June 2026, priced at a “reasonable” – just kidding – an astronomical $150.00 per million input tokens and $600.00…
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  • Demystifying AI Loops: How Modern AI Learns to Self-Correct
    By Jorge Pereira • 2026-06-22
    If you have used a standard AI chat interface, you are probably familiar with traditional prompting. You type a question, wait a few seconds, and get an answer. If the answer is wrong, you type another prompt to fix it. This is called “single-shot” prompting, and while it feels magical at first, it has a…
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  • The Local AI Revolution: How AMD is Challenging Nvidia
    By Jorge Pereira • 2026-06-21
    For the better part of a decade, Nvidia has dominated the artificial intelligence (AI) landscape, not just with high-performance graphics cards but by building an ecosystem that locked in developers and researchers. Anyone looking to engage in serious AI development was expected to pay the hefty “Nvidia tax.” I have written before about the NVIDIA…
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  • The Quest for Token Efficiency: Why Every Token Matters Now
    By Jorge Pereira • 2026-06-19
    The artificial intelligence industry has experienced exponential growth in model capabilities over the past few years. As we have moved from models with billions of parameters to systems containing hundreds of billions of parameters, while expanding context windows into the millions of tokens, a new challenge has emerged: token efficiency. Every token carries a cost…
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  • Beyond OpenRouter: What the rest of the market has to offer
    By Jorge Pereira • 2026-06-17
    Time to revisit The Rise of the Enterprise Token Broker blog post The AI Gateway—the centralized “Token Broker”. I’ll be honest: writing this post feels a little like breaking up with someone you genuinely like. OpenRouter has been part of my daily workflow for two and a half years. It solved a real problem, it…
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  • The Evolution of AI-Native Development
    By Jorge Pereira • 2026-06-13
    The landscape of software development has undergone a radical transformation in the last few years. As AI evolves from simple autocomplete to autonomous agentic workflows, the tools we use to build software have shifted from passive plugins to active collaborators. 1. The Origins: Codeium and the Autocomplete Era The journey began with Codeium (originally developed…
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  • AI Agents: From Conversation to Action
    By Jorge Pereira • 2026-06-12
    For the past few years, most people have thought of AI as a chatbot. You ask a question, receive an answer, and the interaction ends there. A new category of technology is changing that model entirely. I have been writing about this for a while — I think my frst post was back in December…
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  • Exploring MiniMax in June 2026
    By Jorge Pereira • 2026-06-09
    The AI landscape is constantly evolving, and at the forefront of this revolution is the MiniMax series, a family of powerful, efficiency-focused large language models developed by MiniMax, a Shanghai-based AI company. MiniMax models are engineered specifically to excel at high-throughput agentic workflows, long-context comprehension, and complex software engineering tasks. I have been testing MiniMax…
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  • The Era of “No-Code” Productivity: How It Works
    By Jorge Pereira • 2026-06-08
    Imagine a highly skilled, tireless digital employee sitting next to you. You do not need to teach it Python, you do not need to show it how to navigate APIs, and you do not need to write a single line of code to get it to build a workflow. You just talk to it. This…
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  • Beyond the Chatbot: A Look at My Current AI Lab
    By Jorge Pereira • 2026-06-06
    I get asked all the time: “What are you actually using for your AI Lab?” To answer that, I wanted to provide an update on how I’m building, testing, and deploying. But first, a little background. I’m a technology consultant and services principal, and I’ve been developing custom software since I was 15. I’ve been deep…
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  • The Pink Panther: 60-Year-Old Cartoon
    By Jorge Pereira • 2026-06-04
    A practical guide for professionals curious about how entertainment franchises survive—and thrive—across decades – Teaches Us About IP Ownership, Digital Strategy, and the Future of Entertainment A Confession Before We Begin Silly me—I know this one sounds a little unusual. Most of the topics I write about involve technology, business strategy, artificial intelligence, digital transformation,…
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  • Is Europe Moving Away From Microsoft?
    By Jorge Pereira • 2026-06-01
    I have seen a lot of articles and reports about European countries, especially in the EU, moving away from Microsoft and other U.S. tech providers. At first glance, it may sound like a simple privacy debate, but the issue is really about digital sovereignty, data control, and long-term dependence on foreign technology. Europe is not…
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