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This August, as already mentioned in a previous post, I spent time in the beautiful mountain town of Arosa, Switzerland. To explore the bike trails, I turned to tech, Google, Google Maps, ChatGPT, and a handful of dedicated trail apps. To my surprise, ChtaGPT outperformed Google in helping me discover the best routes, but I also tested a few popular biking apps: ❌ AllTrails → Overly complicated UI. Too many options = no options. ❌ komoot → I couldn’t even log in. Support reac

I spent most of August in the beautiful, picturesque town of Arosa, Switzerland. While there, I wanted to find the best bike trails to explore the mountains. At first, I tried Google Search and Google Maps, but the results were scattered, generic, and not really helpful. Too many alternatives, yet no clear best option. Then I turned to ChatGPT. With just a bit of back-and-forth, I quickly narrowed down to 2–3 great recommendations—and ended up discovering my favorite trail:

We’ve all seen it before: First it was PowerPoint. Then Dashboards. Then "agile." Now it’s AI prompts and "AI strategy." In the last couple of years, I have either been informed of or witnessed firsthand numerous executives and managers with little actual contribution to their organizations suddenly reinventing themselves as "AI visionaries": 🚩 Proclaiming that every task is "easy with AI" 🚩 Evangelizing their "holy" AI prompts 🚩 Boasting they can "do in minutes what onc

AI is transforming video creation, making it easier than ever to turn simple text into dynamic visual content. Over the past few days, at Graypes, we explored several of these tools while working on a series of instructional videos. It was a hands-on dive into what's possible today—and here's a quick sneak peek at what we discovered. 📍 Leading the innovation is Sora by OpenAI, capable of generating cinematic scenes from text with stunning realism. 📍 Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha de

Over the past two years, following the explosion of large language model (LLM) tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and DeepSeek, we at Graypes have witnessed a sharp increase in business proposals submitted for assessment. Astonishingly, around 65% of these proposals seem to follow the same templated narrative, which goes something like this: 📎We are developing a cutting-edge solution that substantially improves <a_trending_field> by leveraging the power of Artificial Intelligence

Wimbledon, one of the most prestigious events in tennis, is already underway, bringing together the world’s elite players in a celebration of talent, tradition, and passion. ❗️No conversation about Wimbledon is complete without mentioning the legendary Roger Federer—a name synonymous with grace, excellence, and sportsmanship. With 20 Grand Slam titles and a record 8 Wimbledon trophies, Federer didn’t just play tennis—he redefined it, making the extraordinary look effortless.

An impressive result after analyzing the top 100 most-viewed videos on YouTube, published after January 2023. In Graypes GmbH we recently...

Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained on massive datasets of text, allowing them to understand and generate natural language,...

In navigating AI technologies, during the last +7 years, within my business, Graypes GmbH , the palpable underrepresentation of Europe in the AI landscape becomes glaringly apparent. Morever, during my recent visit to Davos for the World Economic Forum 2024, the deficiency in EU technological prowess in AI was unmistakable, in contrast to the robust regulatory framework. The US is the global leader in AI, both in terms of research and development, and in terms of adoption a