Ian Tan

Ian Tan

ChatGPT 4o multimodal imaging rocks

As I experimented with the new ChatGPT 4o imaging engine and shared the visuals with my students at NTU, I felt excitement, wonder, and sadness all at the same time. A nuclear bomb has detonated in the heart of marketing…

Coding with ChatGPT

CODING WITH CHATGPT: Last night, I saw that OpenAI had released a new API (gpt-4o-transcribe) for audio transcription and I was eager to try it. However, I’m still a API newbie and I wasn’t sure how to implement the sample…

The Agency of You workshop

Announcing my new workshop in partnership with The Straits Times – The Agency of You! Generative AI is disruptive but it can be a powerful tool for self-transformation. Many people want to become better at pitching their ideas and engaging…

ChatGPT hits 400m users

CHATGPT SIT REP: ChatGPT hit 400 million users in Feb 2025, that’s about 5% of the world’s population. What’s more stunning is that the last 100 million users were added in just two months (Barclays Research). I won’t be surprised…

Top 50 Gen AI web apps – Jan 2025

There are so many interesting things you can learn by looking at the 50 most popular Gen AI web products compiled by Andreessen Horowitz using Similarweb data, as of Jan 2025. The top two, ChatGPT and DeepSeek, are no surprise.…

Parenting in the Age of Gen AI

Yesterday, I announced to my friends that I am conducting a free webinar called “Parenting in the Age of Generative AI” on 19th March and they helped me to spread the word on WhatsApp. I know this is a hot…

Gen AI training for sales professionals

I conducted my first Generative AI workshop for sales professionals this week in partnership with the Singapore Business Federation. It was an intense session where we went through the different steps of the sales workflow and applied Generative AI techniques…