Posts by: David Franklin

David Franklin, Yardi, Industry Principal: “GPT-5 is the absolute best model available today for 95% of use cases and users.”

Open AI’s ChatGPT-5 is here, & it’s the next big thing

OpenAI has finally released GPT-5, its long-awaited successor to GPT-4, and the reviews are a bit mixed. While it may not be true Artificial General Intelligence, there’s a lot to love.

David Frankin, Yardi: "A cold war not fought with atomic weapons, but something potentially more powerful: AI."

Technology

China vs. America in open source, mind-blowing AI agents & more

China is winning the open source race, but America is fighting back. See how the latest AI agents are blowing minds with incredible automations.

David Franklin, Industry Principal, Artificial Intelligence, Yardi: "The reasoning abilities of modern AI models have become, in many ways, superhuman."

People, Technology

xAI & Perplexity leapfrog the competition

Grok 4 smashes benchmarks, outperforming the best from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google while Perplexity releases an agentic browser that could supplant Chrome and Edge.

David Franklin, Industry Principal, Yardi Systems. "Voice is the new UI. We are finally at the point where Scotty can say, "Hello, computer," and it will respond."

Technology

4 companies pushing AI forward right now

Let's dig into the latest open-source AI models. We'll explore how smaller ones are competing with large, established tech companies.

David Franklin, Yardi, Industry Principal: “Imagine a world where you simply describe a movie to the AI and a few minutes later you can watch that movie.”

Technology

Generative AI, video models, ray tracing & agents, oh my!

This week we have a smorgasbord of content covering AI topics from generative AI to LLM leaderboards and automated agents. There’s never a dull moment in the world of AI!

David Franklin, Yardi, Industry Principal: “An 80% price reduction frees up a lot of capacity for us to deliver complex, powerful solutions.”

Technology

OpenAI drops prices again, no new Siri from Apple & more

There’s a tremendous amount of great content coming out of the AI Engineer World’s Fair. Maybe that’s why OpenAI dropped the price on their o3 model by 80%? Let's explore.

David Franklin, Yardi, Industry Principal: “Adding connectors will … reduce the amount of time we squishy humans have to spend on boring, repetitive tasks.”

Technology

Latest trends at the AI Engineer World’s Fair in San Francisco

The AI Engineer World’s Fair in San Francisco is where the best minds in AI gather to present papers and exchange ideas. We cover the event and other happenings from the week.

David Franklin, Yardi, Industry Principal: “Google's latest text-to-video generation engine is absolutely insane.”

Technology

A convergence: Google, OpenAI & Microsoft conferences align

It has been an exciting week (or two) in the world of AI! There was a convergence in the force, and all the big players made their announcements virtually simultaneously.

Technology

Yardi’s new AI strategy & Grok’s bizarre meltdown

Yardi announced a bold new AI strategy, Grok had a bit of a meltdown, ChatGPT 4.1 was released and so was Alibaba’s Wan 2.1.

David Franklin, Industry Principal, Artificial Intelligence, Yardi: "This is one of those things where you really need to see it to believe it!"

Technology

Welcome to The Real AI State: A new blog series

The Real AI State Blog is here to provide an update on some of the critical developments that have happened in the world of AI and relate them to the world of real estate.