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ChandraKumar R Pillai

Brussels Metropolitan Area, Belgium

Top AI Voice | AI & Blockchain Expert | Tech Advisor | Leadership Insights

Available For: Advising, Authoring, Consulting, Influencing, Speaking
Travels From: Brussels
Speaking Topics: AI , IT Strategy , Enterprise Architecture and Blockchain

ChandraKumar R Pillai Points
Academic 0
Author 263
Influencer 147
Speaker 0
Entrepreneur 0
Total 410

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Areas of Expertise

Agentic AI 30.04
Agile 30.43
AI 33.25
Analytics 40.67
Blockchain 42.38
Business Strategy
Cryptocurrency
Customer Experience 30.01
Digital Transformation
Emerging Technology 30.05
Entrepreneurship
Generative AI
HR 30.04
Innovation
IT Leadership
IT Operations
Leadership
Management
Open Innovation
Startups

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Publications & Experience

16 Article/Blogs
Inside Meta’s AI Ambitions: How Midjourney Could Transform Social Media
Linkedln
August 26, 2025
Meta is making waves in the AI industry again. This time, it’s not just about in-house development or acquiring AI talent—Meta is partnering with Midjourney, the startup known for its advanced AI image and video generation technology.

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Blockchain

The Forgotten Birds Behind Today’s AI Breakthroughs
Linkedln
August 22, 2025
When we talk about Artificial Intelligence, most people think of big names like Sam Altman, Google DeepMind, or OpenAI. We hear about GPT models, self-driving cars, or AI beating humans at chess and Go.

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Blockchain

Self-Improving AI Explained: Productivity Boost or Pandora’s Box?
Linkedln
August 12, 2025
Mark Zuckerberg has a bold vision — AI that’s smarter than humans. And according to him, the key ingredient isn’t just human talent… it’s AI that can improve itself.

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Blockchain

AI Agents Are Coming — But Who’s Writing Their Rulebook?
Linkedln
August 11, 2025
AI agents are no longer just answering questions — they’re starting to take action for us. They can now send emails, write documents, update spreadsheets, or even talk to other AI agents.

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Blockchain

Trusting AI with Welfare: Amsterdam’s Story of Hope and Caution
Linkedln
June 11, 2025
In an age where Artificial Intelligence is rapidly transforming public services, the city of Amsterdam attempted something bold and risky. It sought to use AI to make welfare systems more fair, efficient, and transparent. The project, called Smart Check, was built with all the right intentions—and with nearly every responsible AI practice applied. Yet, it failed. Why?

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Tags: AI, Analytics

AI Sketching Gets Human: How Claude 3.5 and MIT Are Redefining Expression
Linkedln
June 09, 2025
In an age where AI models are creating poems, analyzing contracts, and generating entire software systems, a quiet yet significant leap is happening in the world of drawing. No, not hyper-realistic paintings or polished 3D models—but raw, intuitive, human-style sketches. Think stick figures, arrows, rectangles... the kind of doodles we scribble to explain an idea to a friend or map out a new product feature on a whiteboard.

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Blockchain

Claude Goes Googling: Anthropic’s AI Can Now Surf the Web
Linkedln
May 08, 2025
Artificial Intelligence is evolving fast—and Anthropic just took a big step forward.

On May 7, Anthropic launched a brand-new API that allows its Claude AI models to search the internet in real time. This is big news for developers, businesses, and anyone building AI-powered tools that need fresh, accurate, and contextual information.

In a world where most AI models are lo

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Blockchain

AI Doom vs. Tech Optimism: Why 2024 Changed the Narrative
Linkedln
January 03, 2025
For years, technologists and scientists warned us of the catastrophic risks associated with advanced AI systems—risks ranging from mass human extinction to AI manipulation by the powerful. These concerns, often labeled as “AI doom,” gained mainstream attention in 2023 with calls for regulation and safety measures.

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Blockchain

OpenAI’s Transition to Profit: What It Means for the Future of AI
Linkedln
December 31, 2024
In the ever-evolving world of artificial intelligence, few debates are as heated or consequential as the current dispute over OpenAI ’s proposed transition to a for-profit entity. What began as a nonprofit mission to ensure AI benefits humanity has now drawn the attention of tech leaders, nonprofit organizations, and even state and federal lawmakers.

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Tags: Agile, Analytics, Blockchain

What’s Next for OpenAI After Brundage’s Exit? Examining the Leadership Shake-Up
Linkedln
December 28, 2024
On October 23, 2024, Miles Brundage, a prominent policy researcher and senior adviser at OpenAI ’s AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) readiness team, announced his departure from the organization. Brundage’s exit comes at a time of significant shifts at OpenAI, which has seen a number of high-profile leaders leave the company in recent months.

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Tags: Agile, Analytics, Blockchain

Tülu 3: The Open-Source Revolution in AI Post-Training
Linkedln
November 23, 2024
Artificial Intelligence has transformed industries, but one challenge persists: bridging the gap between small developers and tech giants. In a world dominated by Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic, the open-source community often finds itself at a disadvantage. But change is in the air!

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Blockchain

Boosting Manufacturing Efficiency: EthonAI's AI Solutions and $16.5M Raise
LinkedIn
September 01, 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to revolutionize industries, and the manufacturing sector is no exception. Recently, Swiss startup EthonAI made headlines by raising $16.5 million in funding. This significant investment highlights the growing interest and confidence in AI-driven manufacturing solutions.

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Blockchain

Transforming Industries with Mistral's New SDK for AI Fine-Tuning
Linkedln
June 07, 2024
Fine-tuning is a critical process in AI model development. It allows developers to take a pre-trained model and adapt it to specific tasks or domains by training it further on a targeted dataset. This process not only enhances the model's performance in the desired area but also ensures that it can generate more relevant and accurate outputs.

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Blockchain

Fear of AI Replacing Jobs or Public Safety Concerns: Unraveling the Motive Behind the Waymo Self-Driving Vehicle Attack in San Francisco
LinkedIn
February 14, 2024
In a shocking turn of events, a Waymo self-driving vehicle was vandalized and set on fire by a crowd in San Francisco recently. This incident, which occurred on Saturday night, has raised concerns about public hostility toward autonomous vehicles.

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Tags: AI, Blockchain, Autonomous Vehicles

ChatGPT Revolution: Bringing GPTs into Conversations with a Simple '@'
LinkedIn
February 03, 2024
Get ready to dive into the latest innovation in AI-driven conversations. OpenAI is taking a giant leap forward by allowing ChatGPT users to directly invoke GPTs within their chats, making conversations smarter and more insightful.

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Tags: AI, Blockchain

Bill Gates Believes in Humanoid Robots: What Does This Mean for the Future?
LinkedIn
January 30, 2024
In the ever-evolving world of robotics, there's a heated debate taking center stage, and it's all about humanoid robots. While this topic has been around for decades, recent developments have brought it back into the spotlight, thanks to startups like 1X and Figure , alongside industry giants like Tesla , diving headfirst into the humanoid realm.

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Tags: AI, Blockchain, Robotics

237 Author Newsletters
AI Is Turning Reddit into the World’s Most Powerful Answer Engine
Linkedln
February 08, 2026
During its latest earnings call, Reddit made something very clear: AI-powered search is not just a product feature. It is a business strategy. And potentially, a massive new revenue engine.

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Blockchain

From AlphaFold to AlphaGenome: AI’s Next Big Leap in Genomics
Linkedln
February 06, 2026
For decades, modern biology has focused on a surprisingly small slice of human DNA.

Only about 2% of our genome directly codes for proteins. The remaining 98%—often dismissed as “junk DNA”—has been one of the biggest unsolved puzzles in science.

That puzzle is now being attacked head-on by AlphaGenome, a new deep-learning model from Google DeepMind.

And just like AlphaFold changed how we understand proteins, AlphaGenome could fundamentally change how we understand gene regulation, disease, and life itself.

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Blockchain

Why Agentic AI Is Disrupting Legal, Finance, and Analytics Jobs Faster Than Expected
Linkedln
February 05, 2026
Last week, Anthropic quietly launched plugin support for Claude Cowork, its new agentic AI workspace designed for non-technical enterprise users. Within days, billions of dollars were wiped off the market value of legal tech, data analytics, advertising, and professional services firms.

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Blockchain

AI in Physics: Can Machines Discover What Humans Have Missed?
Linkedln
February 04, 2026
Antimatter. The muon. Quarks. Neutrinos. None of them were discovered because someone planned for them neatly in advance. They were found because nature behaved in ways that did not match expectations.

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Blockchain

AI Regulation Explained: Why Governments Should Regulate AI Use, Not Models
Linkedln
February 03, 2026
Across the world, governments are racing to control artificial intelligence before it causes large-scale harm. China moved first. Europe followed with the EU AI Act. India published its governance framework in late 2025. In the United States, states are passing AI laws even as the federal government tries to slow them down.

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Blockchain

From Smart to Trustworthy: The Real Future of Artificial Intelligence
Linkedln
January 25, 2026
For years, the dominant narrative was simple: bigger models + more data + more compute = better intelligence.

That approach worked—up to a point.

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Blockchain

AI Leadership in 2026: Why China Is Closing the Gap on the U.S.
Linkedln
January 20, 2026
This is not a casual comment. It comes from the leader of one of the world’s most influential AI labs — the organization behind some of the most important breakthroughs in modern AI and a key force powering Google’s Gemini models.

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Blockchain

The Future of Brain–Computer Interfaces in AI
Linkedln
January 18, 2026
In January 2026, OpenAI confirmed that it has invested heavily in Merge Labs, a brain–computer interface (BCI) startup founded by — and closely linked to — OpenAI’s own CEO, Sam Altman.

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Blockchain

AI Expansion in India: Strategy, Challenges, and Opportunities
Linkedln
January 16, 2026
Something important is happening quietly — but decisively — in the global AI race.

The next big AI growth story is no longer only about Silicon Valley, London, or Beijing. It is increasingly about India.

And one recent move makes that crystal clear.

Anthropic has appointed Irina Ghose , former Managing Director of Microsoft India, to lead its India business as it prepares to open an office in Bengaluru.

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Blockchain

AI-Based Pain Monitoring: Technology, Accuracy, and Ethics
Linkedln
January 14, 2026
Now imagine a patient on an operating table—awake under local anesthesia. They feel discomfort, maybe even significant pain, but they cannot easily speak. Or imagine an infant. Or a person with dementia. Or someone whose condition prevents clear communication.

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Blockchain

Manus AI and Meta: A Case Study in AI Geopolitics
Linkedln
January 07, 2026
Despite earlier concerns around Benchmark’s investment in Manus and scrutiny from the US Treasury under rules limiting American capital flowing into Chinese AI companies, the Meta–Manus deal is currently viewed as legitimate.

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Blockchain

Is the Smartphone Becoming Obsolete? How AI Is Changing Human-Computer Interaction
Linkedln
January 02, 2026
For more than 15 years, the smartphone has been the center of our digital lives. We wake up with it. We work through it. We relax with it. We argue, buy, scroll, learn, and even think through a small glass rectangle in our hands.

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Blockchain

India Startup Funding Report 2025: Deal Slowdown, Selective Capital
Linkedln
December 30, 2025
In a year when the United States poured unprecedented capital into AI—often concentrating billions into a handful of companies—India quietly moved in the opposite direction.

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, Analytics

Why Control, Not Creativity, Is the Real Breakthrough in AI Video
Linkedln
December 19, 2025
But occasionally, a release quietly rewires how an entire industry works — not by replacing humans, but by locking human performance into the AI loop.

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Blockchain

Why Multi-Agent AI Workflows Are the Next Big Shift in Productivity?
Linkedln
December 12, 2025
Every few years, we see a major shift in how we work. The personal computer changed everything. The internet changed everything again. Then came cloud apps. Then came generative AI.

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Blockchain

The Cost of Thinking: How AI Reasoning Is Quietly Draining Budgets
Linkedln
December 11, 2025
In the past two years, AI models have grown faster, smarter, and more capable than anyone predicted. We now talk about “reasoning models,” advanced versions of LLMs that can think step-by-step, act as agents, run tools, debug code, and even make plans.

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Blockchain

Why AI’s Most Dangerous Flaw Isn’t Hallucination — It’s How It Thinks
Linkedln
December 10, 2025
And as AI becomes more agentic—advising patients, supporting therapy, guiding students, even helping diagnose medical conditions—these invisible reasoning errors can grow into life-threatening risks.

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Blockchain

If AI Is So Smart, Why Does It Fail in the Real World?
Linkedln
December 06, 2025
Every few months, a new AI benchmark breaks. A new model scores higher than humans on exams that even experts struggle with. Bar exams. Medical boards. Coding tests. IQ-style puzzles.

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Blockchain

Why Every AI Leader Should Pay Attention to the US Federal vs State Showdown
Linkedln
December 01, 2025
Artificial intelligence has reached a point where its influence is too large, too fast, and too unpredictable to exist without rules. But instead of arguing about how to regulate AI, the U.S. is now trapped in a dangerous battle over who is allowed to regulate AI.

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Blockchain

xAI’s Solar Farm Covers Only 10% of Its AI Power Needs. What About the Other 90%?
Linkedln
November 28, 2025
This newsletter breaks it all down — in plain English — and asks the uncomfortable questions the industry must confront.

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Blockchain

Gemini 3 Changes Everything: Visual Answers, AI Agents, and Vibe Coding
Linkedln
November 23, 2025
If Gemini 1 was about multimodality, and Gemini 2.5 was about raw reasoning power, then Gemini 3 is about experience — how AI feels, how it responds, and how it works like an agent.

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Blockchain

Uncensoring AI: The Controversial Reinvention of DeepSeek R1
Linkedln
November 21, 2025
This new version is called DeepSeek R1 Slim, created by Multiverse Computing, a Spanish quantum-inspired AI company. The implications of this breakthrough reach far beyond model compression and politics.

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Blockchain

A Swiss Startup Could Change the Future of AI. Here’s How.
Linkedln
November 19, 2025
Today’s AI data centers are consuming massive electricity, pushing heat output to extreme levels, and putting unprecedented pressure on cooling systems. Traditional cooling—fans, air, basic liquid systems—is no longer enough.

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Blockchain

Autonomous Warfare: Are We Creating a Monster We Can’t Control?
Linkedln
November 18, 2025
The world is entering a new era—one where AI is no longer just a productivity tool, a chatbot, or an assistant. It is becoming a military asset, a battlefield decision-maker, and—if we are not careful—a trigger for conflicts we cannot control.

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Blockchain

DeepSeek Just Broke the Rules of AI Memory — And Everyone Should Pay Attention
Linkedln
November 06, 2025
Not in small ways — in major ways. Ask a chatbot to remember a preference across a long conversation, and it often breaks. Ask an AI assistant to maintain context after a few hours of interaction — the details start to blur. Engineers call this problem context rot.

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Blockchain

1 Book Award
Can We Trust AI Benchmarks? OpenAI’s Secret Funding Sparks Debate
Linkedln
January 24, 2025
Can AI benchmarks truly be unbiased? That’s the burning question after a recent revelation about Epoch AI, a nonprofit developing math benchmarks for AI models. OpenAI, one of the leading AI firms, was revealed as a funder of the FrontierMath benchmark—a detail that wasn’t made public until much later.

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Tags: AI, Analytics, Blockchain

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Top AI Voice
LinkedIn
February 01, 2024

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Tags: AI

1 Influencer Newsletter
AI Daily Nutshell
LinkedIn
August 01, 2024

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I am eager to join your Advisory Board, bringing over 21 years of IT industry experience alongside a robust educational background with a Master’s in Computer Science and an MBA from a prestigious global business school. My confidence in effectively contributing to your organization is grounded in a career dedicated to harnessing technology for business enhancement.
My professional journey has covered a broad spectrum of IT disciplines, including strategic planning, system architecture, project management, and leading digital transformations. The strategic insights I've developed through my MBA further enhance my ability to provide valuable perspectives on a range of technological and business challenges.

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Leverage over two decades of comprehensive IT expertise to elevate your startup or SME. With a rich background spanning roles such as IT Advisor, IT Strategist, Enterprise Architect, and Project & Program Management, I offer a depth of knowledge and a proven track record of success. My educational foundation includes an MBA from IE Business School and a Master's in Computer Science from MG University, equipping me with both technical prowess and strategic acumen.
As a recognized expert in AI & Blockchain technologies and the author of the daily newsletter "AI in Nutshell," I bring the latest insights and trends directly to your business. My advisory service is designed to provide startups and scaleups with strategic guidance in areas including technology adoption, architectural design, project execution, and leadership development.

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