How Long Will What Is Free Today Remain Free? America and China Lead, Europe Is Falling Behind There are currently two centres of gravity in AI development: the American — represented by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta — and the Chinese, led by Alibaba’s Qwen series, DeepSeek, and Zhipu’s GLM models. European presence in this…
A silent failure mode that almost nobody talks about What Is RAG, and Why Does It Matter? RAG — Retrieval-Augmented Generation — is one of the most widely used methods for enabling an AI system to answer not from general knowledge alone, but from specific, uploaded documents. In a law firm, this means the firm’s…
A guide to interpreting benchmark scores for non-specialists The Headline That Promises Everything and Explains Nothing It appears in some form almost every week: ‘The new X AI model is 40% better than its predecessor.’ Or: ‘AI model Y has surpassed human performance on benchmark Z.’ These statements are grounded in real measurements — but…
When your digital tool changes unilaterally — and there is nothing you can do about it The EU Sovereignty Wave: Background In recent months, Europe’s political and technology decision-makers have grown increasingly vocal about what they long treated as mere principle: digital independence is not ideology — it is a business and security necessity. The…
The right specialist for the right task — and what most job postings get wrong When a business leader decides it is time to bring AI into the company, the first instinct is almost always the same: “We need to hire an AI engineer.” LinkedIn listings, consultancy recommendations, and industry articles all push this term…
AI solutions are multiplying for lawyers, accountants and physicians. Their publishers promise time savings, GDPR compliance and transparent pricing. But between the price displayed on the website and what you actually pay at the end of the month, there can be a considerable — and barely verifiable — gap. This is not necessarily a question…
Cybercrime is not a future threat. It is happening now – every day, at industrial scale, requiring ever less technical expertise. This is not scaremongering: these are figures published by the commander of the French National Gendarmerie’s cyber unit. An industrialisation we can no longer ignore General Hervé Petry, commander of UNCyber – the French…
The Secret Architecture Behind the AI Tools You Already Use If you have heard that large AI models are made up of experts but had no idea what that actually means, this article is for you. Written for accountants, lawyers, doctors, and anyone who uses these tools without being an engineer. The Kitchen Analogy: Where…
You may have already tried “giving a document” to ChatGPT: you attach a contract, ask a question, the AI answers. It’s convenient. But you’ve probably noticed that by the next session, it has forgotten everything. You start again. You reattach the file. You ask the question again. There’s another approach: more efficient, more secure, and…
That’s the phrase we hear most often in professional offices. And it’s entirely understandable: ChatGPT Plus at €20/month works well, and nobody wants to hear about more complicated solutions. Except this question hides another, far more important one: €20 a month to do what, exactly? Because depending on what you expect from your AI –…
The secret of AI’s “short-term memory” The first time someone hears that an artificial intelligence model has a “context window,” they usually nod and move on. Then, a few weeks later, when the AI system starts behaving strangely – forgetting something mentioned five minutes ago, or confusing the beginning of a document with the end…
If you have ever seen AI models before installation, you have probably come across something like: “mistral-7b-instruct-v0.3.Q4_K_M.gguf”. The model name may ring a bell, we have already explained the meaning of the letter “b”, but what is that string of letters and numbers at the end?… That is quantization. A simple but clever technique that…