From the author of A Beginner's Guide to ChatGPT
Clear answers to the questions people actually ask about AI, from your first prompt to building agents. Every article answers a main question and the one that comes next, with sources you can check.
Each article starts with a question and a two-sentence answer, then explains it with examples.
Prompts you can copy, exercises, and free tools built from the book's method.
Two or three sources per article, primary sources first, and a date on everything.
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See the pathOften less than the headline, and sometimes more. A compute commitment is a contract to buy computing capacity over many years; some are binding take-or-pay contracts that must be paid even if the buyer does…
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Anthropic's filing shows about $33.2 billion of revenue in the first nine months of 2026, an operating loss of $567 million in the third quarter, and about $895 billion of compute and infrastructure…
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From November 12, Anthropic's Usage Policy prohibits sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward its models, a rule the company says targets extreme cases rather than ordinary frustration.
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Building your own model can mean anything from a free laptop exercise to a run costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, so choose by goal.
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Buy for memory first: 16 GB runs small models, 32 GB runs today's best 27-billion-parameter coding models, and 128 GB reaches models above 100 billion parameters.
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From the automata of ancient myth and the 1956 workshop that named the field to this month's releases: a dated, sourced timeline of AI.
In April 2023 Robert Scales published A Beginner's Guide to ChatGPT, written with GPT-4 as co-pilot. This site grows that method into a guide to all of AI.
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