6th June 2025 I presented an invited keynote at the AI Engineer World’s Fair in San Francisco this week. This is my third time speaking at the event—here are my talks from October 2023 and June 2024. My topic this time was “The last six months in LLMs”—originally planned as the last year, but so much has happened that I had to reduce my scope! You can watch the talk on the AI Engineer YouTube channel. Below is a full annotated transcript of the talk and accompanying slides, plus additional links...