OpenAI’s GPT-5.3-Codex: The AI That Learned to Code Itself
Author(s): Mandar Karhade, MD. PhD. Originally published on Towards AI. OpenAI finally stops pushing porn and starts building coworkers OpenAI just dropped something that should make every software engineer pause their current Sprint planning. GPT-5.3-Codex isn’t just another incremental update to AI-assisted …
Stock Market Freefalls, But ElevenLabs Just Hit $11 Billion
Author(s): Mandar Karhade, MD. PhD. Originally published on Towards AI. Why Sequoia and the Tech World Are Betting the House on Voice Agents Another day another news cycle dominated by a valuation number that looks like a typo. But here’s the thing: …
The End of Token Inflation with DeepSeek OCR-2
Author(s): Mandar Karhade, MD. PhD. Originally published on Towards AI. How “Context Optical Compression” Re-Engineers Document Processing from First Principles The tech world buzzes with excitement every time a leaderboard changes hands, usually celebrating a massive model with a parameter count that …
Alibaba Just Open-Sourced Voice Cloning That Works in 3 Seconds
Author(s): Mandar Karhade, MD. PhD. Originally published on Towards AI. Flow-Matching Meets Voice Generation Another week, another AI breakthrough that changes everything we thought we knew about voice generation. This time, it’s Alibaba’s Qwen team dropping their entire Qwen3-TTS family into the …
The Anti-LLM: Yann LeCun’s $3.5 Billion Bet on World Models
Author(s): Mandar Karhade, MD. PhD. Originally published on Towards AI. Why the godfather of AI is leaving Silicon Valley to build a machine that thinks before it speaks Silicon Valley is currently in the grip of a fever dream, hypnotized by the …
It Looks Like GPT-5.1 Leaked – Polaris Alpha
Author(s): Mandar Karhade, MD. PhD. Originally published on Towards AI. Good for coding front-end, a bit slow, new release from OpenAI The AI community is trying to piece together a new wave of discoveries that all seem to point straight at the …
The New AI Model Paradox: When “Upgrades” Feel Like Downgrades (Claude 3.7)
Author(s): Mandar Karhade, MD. PhD. Originally published on Towards AI. The Allure of the New is misleading when the speed of development is too fast! The tech world buzzes with excitement each time a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) model is unveiled. We’re …
Tired of LLM Chaos? LiteLLM Should Be Your Default
Author(s): Mandar Karhade, MD. PhD. Originally published on Towards AI. Stop juggling multiple LLM APIs and their “standards” This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Large Language Models (LLMs) are revolutionizing everything from content creation to customer …