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Apple, OpenAI, and Google: Navigating the Complex AI Landscape
Amid the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence, key industry players are grappling with considerable challenges and opportunities that could shape the future of AI technology and its integration into business processes.
Apple's AI Challenges: A Race Against Time
Recently, Apple has been under internal scrutiny for its slower-than-expected advancement in artificial intelligence, particularly with the development of a more sophisticated Siri. Delays have surfaced in launching touted features such as contextual understanding and on-screen interaction capabilities, raising concerns about Apple's ability to maintain its competitive edge in the AI arena. According to reports, quality issues have plagued the development, with features failing to operate correctly in testing over a third of the time. Apple now faces high pressure to reassess its AI strategy to stay in the race against more nimble competitors.
OpenAI and Google's Call for Copyright Reform
In parallel, OpenAI and Google have recently reiterated their stance to US lawmakers on the issue of fair use in AI training. These tech giants are advocating for governmental authorization to use copyrighted materials for AI model training without infringing on copyright laws. This call is part of a broader national strategy to ensure the US remains at the forefront of AI innovation, especially considering China's unrestricted data access. While OpenAI and Google seek clear fair use policies, Anthropic has steered the conversation towards national security concerns without addressing the copyright debate directly, showcasing the varied priorities within the AI community.
NVIDIA GTC: Pivotal AI Innovations on the Horizon
NVIDIA's upcoming GTC conference is poised to capture global attention, standing as a significant event that could influence the path of AI infrastructure development. As the company continues to drive AI advancements with its powerful GPUs, the conference promises valuable insights into how NVIDIA plans to navigate challenges in scaling AI compute capacities. This conference comes at a critical time when the AI market is in flux, and any developments could have substantial implications for both the tech industry and broader economic conditions.
Conclusion: Steering Through Uncertainty
As AI continues to transform sectors, business leaders must stay vigilant and informed on these key developments from industry giants. Understanding how companies like Apple, OpenAI, Google, and NVIDIA are navigating challenges can provide valuable lessons and strategic insights for integrating AI into businesses effectively. Engaging with the AI technological landscape proactively remains crucial for enterprises aiming to leverage AI for growth and remain competitive in an increasingly digital world.
Topics Covered in This Episode
- OpenAI and Google seek copyright law exemption for AI model training
- DeepSeek restricts employees' travel over data security concerns
- Google's Gemini 2.0 updates and language model advancements
- Elon Musk versus OpenAI legal dispute on for-profit model
- Apple's AI challenges and Siri development issues
- OpenAI and Google fair use protection proposal to US government
- DeepSeek's state control and US government response
- OpenAI's new agents SDK platform for AI agent development
- Chatbots' shortcomings in retrieving and citing news content
- NVIDIA's GTC conference and implications on the economy
- Zoom's AI advancements and new features announcement
Podcast Transcript
Jordan Wilson [00:00:17]:
OpenAI and Google are essentially asking the federal government to skip the whole copyright law thing. DeepSeek is essentially asking its employees to stay in China, and Apple is essentially asking themselves internally, WTF, how did we drop the ball on AI? Also, for our livestream audience, in about, twenty nine minutes and thirty seconds, we'll be able to break some AI news for you here first on the Everyday AI Show. What's going on y'all? My name is Jordan Wilson, and I'm the host of Everyday AI. And this thing, it's for you. It is your daily livestream podcast and free daily newsletter helping us all not just learn what's happening in the world of AI, but how we can leverage it to grow our companies and our careers. And almost every single Monday, we do the AI news that matters because I don't want you spending, like, five hours a day, trying to keep up with the AI news and being like, oh, how is this gonna impact my company, my department? That's what we do at Everyday AI. And then almost every single Monday, we have a dedicated show just cutting through all the nonsense and saying, hey. Here's, kind of the top sore stories, the top developments, and how they're gonna impact your company.
Jordan Wilson [00:01:34]:
We just cut through the the the BS and just tell you how it is. Right? Because this is what we do every day, so you don't have to. Alright. So, if that sounds like what you're trying to do, you know, make sense of AI and grow your company and career, you need to go to our website at youreverydayai.com. Sign up for the free daily newsletter. So we do this, well, every day, Monday through Friday. And in our daily newsletter, we recap, the best insights from the podcast, giving you even more info that you need to make those smart decisions. But also on our website, you can go listen to, like, now more than 480 episodes or something like that, from the leadings, from the world's leading experts, on generative AI.
Jordan Wilson [00:02:15]:
So make sure you go check that out. Also, as a reminder, I am gonna be live this week in, San Jose, California at the NVIDIA GTC conference. So, excited to partner with NVIDIA, to bring you all, a lot of exclusive insights you are literally not gonna get anywhere else, and, you know, really just bringing you the news, from this conference. So, thanks to NVIDIA for partnering, with Everyday AI. So, yeah. And you can still tune in, for free online. Right? So if you're not in the California area, you can still, attend for free virtually. So check out the newsletter.
Jordan Wilson [00:02:56]:
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Jordan Wilson [00:03:16]:
Enough chit chat. Let's talk about what is the AI news that matters for the week of March 17. First, Google went nutty, in a good way. Alright. So Google has kind of unexpectedly released a huge set of AI updates. Alright. So, we covered this just Friday on our show, but kind of out of nowhere, Google more or less updated their entire suite of AI in large language model products, which I don't think a lot of people were expecting. So, we did an entire episode on this.
Jordan Wilson [00:03:52]:
I think it's worth, going to listen to. It's episode four eighty two, but here's some of the high level, updates. So Google introduced Gemini two point o Flash Thinking, an upgraded reasoning model with improved performance, multimodal capabilities, and a massive 1,000,000, token context window, for paid users. There's also, which I think is one of the more fascinating and unique features, there's inline image generation is now available within Gemini Gemini two point o Flash thinking, allowing users to create high quality image directly alongside text inputs, which is really cool, especially if you're a content creator, a a writer, if you do SEO. Right? You can literally just say, in in my example, I went over on Friday. You know, I said, hey. You know, write a a blog post about the best tourism spots in Chicago and create an image for each one of those five, and it did it in line, which I think was, super impressive. I really haven't seen anything like that, from one of the big AI labs.
Jordan Wilson [00:04:54]:
Also, Google's deep research mode has been revamped, to include that Gemini two point o flash thinking, and, also, just it operates differently now. It is much better where the old, quote, unquote old. Right? Not all of, four months. The old Google deep research just kind of cast a wide net, and it just went out and did one big research task. So now it use, it uses reasoning in this new Gemini two point o flash thinking model. Right? So it'll first go look at, you know, three or four high level websites, and then depending on what it finds and what your query is, right, it'll make its decisions on, kind of the next step in its research. So, I I I think it is much more accurate, and I think it does a much better job. Next, there is a new personalization feature that's added to the front end of Gemini.
Jordan Wilson [00:05:42]:
So, yeah, many of these are are for paid users, although, the deep research, even if you are on a free, you know, a free plan, if you go to gemini.google.com, it says you get a couple, free ones a month. So I'm not even sure if on the paid plan if there's any limits. I don't think Google said anything. I've been using it nonstop on both of my paid plans, on my personal Gmail and my workspace account. Haven't ran into any issues. I've been loving the new updated version of Google Deep Research, but also for, for paid users, on the front end of Google Gemini, there is a new personalization mode. So some peep I mean, this is gonna be extremely polarizing. I personally love it, but I don't have this one yet, on my Google Workspace account, only on my personal Gmail.
Jordan Wilson [00:06:26]:
So for me, it's not gonna be, as relevant. But essentially, you know, any input that you put into, into Google Gemini will take into account your personal search history. Like I said, some people are gonna love it. Some people are gonna hate it. I personally love it, but I don't have access to it. But if you are on the paid version of Google Gemini, you probably will have access to it. Also, notebook l m received some updates. The biggest one, it is powered by now Gemini two point o Flash Thinking, so just a much better model.
Jordan Wilson [00:06:54]:
There's, some enhanced features including better citations inside of notes and also customizable audio sources. Two other things, they unveiled, Gemini two point o for robotics applications, and then last but definitely not least, and this is what I think really is really gonna shake up the large language model race, is they announced GEMMA three, their newest version of their open source small language model. So this thing is super small, but it was already getting better ELO scores. Right? So humans preferred it, over as an example, deep seek v three, which, you know, everyone for some reason went wild over, you you know, two months. I didn't get it, but, it used a fraction, of the of the compute needed, to train. So, you know, it's such a small model. I believe it was a 24,000,000,000 parameter model where it was outperforming, models that were hundreds of billions of parameters. So models that were 20 to 30, times their size, Gemma three was outperforming them.
Jordan Wilson [00:08:00]:
So, very exciting for what that means for the future of of edge AI. Right? On device AI, you know, pretty, pretty impressive, outputs there from the Google team. So, you gotta tip your cap to them. Alright. Next piece of AI news. Elon Musk and OpenAI have agreed, to expedite a trial over OpenAI's shift to a for profit model. According to a federal court filing in the US district court for the Northern District of California on Friday. So the trial right now is tentatively set for December 2025.
Jordan Wilson [00:08:35]:
So here's what happened. Musk, who cofounded OpenAI and now obviously has a competing company in xAI, sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman last year, alleging OpenAI strayed from its original mission of developing AI for the good of humanity, not corporate profit. So, yeah, that's the lawsuit. Many people in the legal community, not myself included because I'm not in the legal community, but anyone that looks at that is like, yeah, this thing doesn't have merit. So OpenAI's restructuring to a for profit model is critical for raising significant capital. So in the last fundraising round, they brought in $6,600,000,000, and a new round reportedly of up to $40,000,000,000 is under, under discussion with SoftBank Group contingent on removing that nonprofit control. So the judge has denied Musk's request to pause OpenAI's transition to a for profit model, but approved an expedited trial, in December signaling the high stakes in this legal clash. So OpenAI has denied Musk's allegations, which I don't even understand what the allegations are.
Jordan Wilson [00:09:44]:
Right? It's like, oh, you were a for profit or, you know, you set up as a nonprofit, but now you wanna make money and raise money, which has happened, like, a billion times before companies that are originally set up as, you know, nonprofits or research institutions, they convert into nonprofits. Y'all, I spent a decade in nonprofit leadership. This is as common as changing your socks. So, you know, most people who, you know, can use their brain, understand that Elon Musk is doing this, to gain a competitive advantage with his x AI product. Right? They even put out a a bid, of, you know, to buy OpenAI for $97,000,000,000, and that was really just to drive the price up. So, you you know, there's some some details that we don't really have time to go into, but, you know, essentially, you know, the court rejected, like I said, Musk's latest attempt and they're like, yeah, let's get this over with. We'll get this over in December. So, pretty pretty important, piece there.
Jordan Wilson [00:10:42]:
But, you know, it it is gonna be interesting, because, you you know, a year ago when I was talking about this, I'm like, this isn't going anywhere. But now, you know, especially if you're here in The US and if you follow politics, Elon Musk is kind of running the government, like, quite literally. Right? Anywhere US, president Trump is, Elon Musk is there, and he's off he's often the one talking and speaking. So, you know, expect this to get extremely political, which I told you in our 2025, AI road map and prediction series. I'm like, AI is gonna get more political than ever before, because I could see Elon Musk, you know, throwing some of his new government weight around, to try to shift this, into his favor. In separate instances, he's already been going after federal judges, for, kind of rulings that he just didn't like. So I could see this getting extremely messy, but pretty juicy, I guess. If you care about things like AI, in politics, in business, it'll give us, plenty to talk about.
Jordan Wilson [00:11:48]:
Speaking of things to talk about, my gosh, the story that just came out, from Bloomberg detailing, what's going on internally at Apple, with their AI is juicier, than an Apple. Right? It's my gosh. This is soap opera type of stuff. So Apple is under fire internally for its slow progress in artificial intelligence and their development of a smarter Siri with promised features being delayed and internal challenges surfacing. So the setback highlights the growing pressure on Apple to compete in the AI race with their quote, unquote Apple intelligence, which so far has done nothing. Right? I have the new Apple iPhone and, you know, I'm like, where's the Apple intelligence? It's actually just dumber. Right? I should know how to, like, work Siri. Right? I I couldn't even get Siri to work.
Jordan Wilson [00:12:41]:
So anyways, Apple, according to some recent reports, here's what's happening. So obviously, Apple has delayed, key Siri features originally promised at the, Apple keynote in 2023. Yikes. Including capabilities like understanding personal contact context and acting on on on screen based information. So, right, when something's on your, screen and you ask Siri, like, hey. Can I can I go to this? Do I have any anything conflicting in my mail? Right? Maybe you're reading a a business email. Someone's inviting you, to to present somewhere and you, you know, bring up this new smart Siri. And you're like, hey, Siri.
Jordan Wilson [00:13:19]:
Can I go to this? Do I have anything else on my calendar? Is there any right? So you were supposed to be able to do those things, and now you ask Siri the weather, and it gives you a pancake recipe. So, according to Bloomberg reports, senior director Robbie Walker described the situation as, quote, unquote, ugly during a Siri team meeting, acknowledging employee frustration and burnout while admitting the features may not ship this year. Yeah. The most recent reporting said, a lot of these, you know, quote, unquote, Apple intelligence features might not be out until 2026 or 2027, even though it kind of looked like in 2023 at WWDC, event, the worldwide developer conference that they were, like, shipping soon, but they apparently are, because there are some internal quality issues that have been a major factor behind the delays. And and it showed that these feature failures, you know, just essentially the AI didn't work properly up to a third of the time during testing. Yikes. Also, Apple's marketing team reportedly worsened the situation by promoting the features prematurely, creating unrealistic customer expectations. The company has since pulled an iPhone 16 ad showcasing these capabilities and added disclaimers to its website.
Jordan Wilson [00:14:36]:
Yeah. I remember those commercials. They were out, like, couple months ago. I'm like, wait. I have this phone. It doesn't do any of this. So senior executives are taking, quote, unquote, intense personal accountability for the delays according to Walker, signaling the high stakes and scrutiny surrounding series development. So competing priorities across Apple are contributing to the delays, with Walker stating that other projects have taken precedence due to more urgent timelines.
Jordan Wilson [00:15:04]:
So Apple's leadership insists, according to reports, on maintaining high standards, emphasizing that competitors might have launched similar features in a less polished state, but Apple is committed to delivering a room a more robust experience. Yeah. Someone's gotta make a movie about how badly Apple fumbled the AI back. Right? Because I was saying this back in 2023 about how bad Apple, was behind, even though they were just reportedly burning cash on AI. Right? Reports were saying they were spending more than a million dollars a day, trying to develop their own internal models. And then they're like, oh, we might work with Google. We might work with Claude. Oh, no.
Jordan Wilson [00:15:49]:
We're gonna work with, you know, OpenAI and Chat GPT. And a lot of people are like, okay. Well, maybe it'll just work out of the box and just mostly Chat GPT is gonna be handling everything under the hood. But here we are. Apple intelligence, not super smart. I mean, things that it does do well, I guess, right now is it gives you a short summary of unread text messages, which is great for me. Right? Because I'm in all these group chats and I don't read them. Yeah.
Jordan Wilson [00:16:13]:
So for those of the few of you out there that have my phone number, if you ever text me, I don't write like I'm terrible. I'm terrible at text messaging. You know, but those summaries are nice. It's like, hey, you have, you know, 562 unread text messages, you know, and then you go into each group thread and it says, oh, here's what's going on. So it does an okay job at summarizing, you know, overall sentiment of text message, text messages, emails. That's kind of it. Right? The Apple intelligence is really, yeah. Alright.
Jordan Wilson [00:16:45]:
Not good at all. So, but let me know. Live stream audience too. Do any of you use the Apple intelligence? Are any of you finding it to be remotely intelligent? I'm not. Alright. Are you still running in circles trying to figure out how to actually grow your business with AI? Maybe your company has been tinkering with large language models for a year or more, but can't really get traction to find ROI on Gen AI. Hey. This is Jordan Wilson, host of this very podcast.
Jordan Wilson [00:17:20]:
Companies like Adobe, Microsoft, and NVIDIA have partnered with us because they trust our expertise in educating the masses around generative AI to get ahead. And some of the most innovative companies in the country hire us to help with their AI strategy and to train hundreds of their employees on how to use GenAI. So whether you're looking for chat g p t training for thousands or just need help building your front end AI strategy, you can partner with us too, just like some of the biggest companies in the world do. Go to youreverydayai.com/partner to get in contact with our team, or you can just click on the partner section of our website. We'll help you stop running in those AI circles and help get your team ahead and build a straight path to ROI on GenAI. Next, OpenAI and Google are pushing for fair use protections to train AI models on copyrighted material. So the debate over AI companies using copyrighted material for training their models is heating up with OpenAI and Google urging the US government to provide, what they say is fair use protections. So this push comes as part of a broader conversation about maintaining America's competitive edge in artificial intelligence while at the same time wondering, does copyright law matter anymore? So OpenAI and Google both submitted proposals to the White House advocating for AI companies to access copyrighted materials under fair use protections.
Jordan Wilson [00:18:54]:
So the proposals were part of president Donald Trump's AI action plan aimed at solidifying The US as a leader in AI innovation. So OpenAI argues that allowing access to copyrighted data is critical for national security, warning that China's AI Developers enjoy unrestricted access to such data, which could give them a significant advantage. More on that here in a couple of minutes. Google echoed that stance, emphasizing that copyright privacy and patent policies should not hinder access to data essential for training AI models. It noted that fair use policies and tax and data mining exceptions have been vital for developing cutting edge AI systems. So both companies highlighted that restrictive policies could lead to lengthy and unpredictable negotiations with copyright holders, slowing down innovation and model development. Anthropic, took a different approach in its proposal focusing on assessing national security risks posed by AI models, strengthening export controls on AI chips, and improving energy infrastructure to support AI growth. They did not address the elephant in the room, which is just copyright issues.
Jordan Wilson [00:20:07]:
So the proposals come amidst multiple lawsuits against all big AI tech companies, for allegedly, quote, unquote, using copyrighted material without permission. So major organizations like the New York Times and public figures have filed suits claiming their content and their works were used to train AI models without authorization or compensation. YouTube as well has accused several AI companies, including Apple, Anthropic, and NVIDIA of scraping its subtitles to train their models, which it says violated its terms of service. So the US government adopts fair use protections for AI training. It could or sorry. If they do, it could reshape the legal landscape for AI development, potentially, accelerating innovation while raising concerns from copyright holders. So if you're confused like what the heck is going on, to put it bluntly, large language models scrape the entirety of the Internet. Right? Not just the open Internet, but the closed Internet, offline data sources, which are essentially just different versions of the Internet in time.
Jordan Wilson [00:21:14]:
Right? Because stuff gets taken down all the time. So think if, like, think of, like, these these Internet backups. Right? And you and me, you know, we can only, access a small portion of the Internet. Right? There there's the dark web. There's the the gray web. Right? There's things behind, you know, paywalls that all of these, data sources essentially just scrape. Right? So the legality is in question, but essentially how large language models work is they scrape the Internet. They don't necessarily care about copyrighted material because their argument is whatever they produce is just a reflection of everything that's on the Internet and not necessarily one specific copyrighted work.
Jordan Wilson [00:21:53]:
Right? That's the the over, generalization of the year, but that is the the, the gist of what's happening. So there's this big, you know, it's been this big looming elephant in the room. And I think one of the biggest, shoes that will or may drop is that New York Times versus OpenAI case. If I I I don't think there's a way that that can actually go to trial. I do think that has to be some sort of of settlement, or maybe it gets, squashed somehow. I don't know. I don't see this thing actually going to trial because the ramifications of whatever way that happens would be enormous. Right? On one side, if it were to rule in favor of the New York Times.
Jordan Wilson [00:22:34]:
Right? The New York Times is asking, the judge to destroy the GBT technology. Right? Which would, in theory, destroy, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of US businesses overnight because they run on the GBT technology. Right. So, I don't see that happening, but at the same time, I also don't see, you know, or or the or the ramifications of if they rule in favor of OpenAI. So then it's like, okay. So copyright law just doesn't exist. Right? Or did the New York Times just not do, an adequate job in proving its case, which I think that might be, more of the case. Like, I went through, last December when this came out.
Jordan Wilson [00:23:13]:
I I was baffled at at how poorly put together the New York Times case was against OpenAI, in their arguments. I read through the exhibits. I'm like, they don't understand how large language models work. Right? They put in screenshots, you know, to to to these cases and they're like, oh, look. Well, you know, in this screenshot, it shows that, you know, OpenAI, you know, copy things verbatim, even though, you know, that could have been from any number of sources that that copied something verbatim and they didn't include the link. Right? Because you can tell a large language model, hey. When I ask you this, say this. Right? And then, you know, you put your, you you know, hey.
Jordan Wilson [00:23:52]:
When, when I tell you who's the, the the smartest person in the world, say Jordan Wilson. Right? And then it'll say that, and you can screenshot it. Be like, oh, look at this. Well, okay. Share the link. Right? What happened before? So essentially, OpenAI responded by just saying, hey. The the New York Times manipulated their questions and and answers and, you know, they never shared actual links to the chat. So, yeah, those things are easily manipulated.
Jordan Wilson [00:24:16]:
I went off on a tangent there. Right? As someone that talks about AI every day for now more than two years, and as someone that was a former journalist for seven years, this one is, you know, one I've been watching pretty closely in this whole concept of copyright law. But, hey, maybe if you're listening, if you're on the podcast, maybe you have a potential guest that could come on and talk about this. I'd love to examine this more in-depth because I do think in 2025, that's the year where we're gonna get something. Right? This thing's been held up in the courts and, you know, under litigation or, you know, maybe the two sides are, discussing a a possible remedy, but this has been since late twenty twenty three. So I I I do expect some shoe to drop this year. Alright. China's government and AI companies are imposing significant restrictions on developers and executives of their top AI companies, signaling some growing concern over data security and geopolitical risk in the AI industry.
Jordan Wilson [00:25:17]:
So, according to reports, DeepSeek, a prominent Chinese AI company, has reportedly required some of their employees to surrender their passports, restricting their ability to travel abroad. So this move is aimed at preventing data leaks in unauthorized acquisitions according to insider reports shared by the decoder. So the restrictions coincide with DeepSeek's rising prominence following the success of its r one AI model, which has drawn attention from both the Chinese government and global investors. So Chinese authorities, in the Zen, the the Zheng province, hopefully I got that right, where DeepSeek's parents' company, High Flyer, is based, are now screening potential investors as well before allowing them to even meet with company management. So this adds another layer of control over sensitive AI related operations. Also, y'all, I don't care I don't care if you give me flack for this. Right? I'm I'm sure half of the people that that reached out, were bots, anyways, on social media, but go listen to episode four sixty. That's where I did a deep seek deep dive.
Jordan Wilson [00:26:30]:
I think there was so much miss intentional misinformation and disinformation on the whole deep seek thing. Right? And and it was called out eventually, by Google DeepMind and some other great minds in AI that were like, yeah. What DeepSeek said, not true. Not possible. Right? They essentially said that they trained a state of the art, AI model for 5,500,000,000, which caused, The US economy to lose more than $3,000,000,000,000 in market cap, you know, about a week in in the week following after that, you know, quote unquote, kind of story started to pick up legs. Not true, number one. So keep that in mind. Right? The DeepSeek, it is, the parent company, is High Flyer.
Jordan Wilson [00:27:15]:
It's a hedge fund. Right? And the hedge fund deep, the the hedge fund, makes their money in algorithmic trading. Right? So think put two and two together. They did not, tell the whole story, on how much it actually cost, to train their model. They kind of did it in a sneaky way. They're like, oh, the the final training run, you know, cost $5,500,000. No. Not at all.
Jordan Wilson [00:27:41]:
So just just keep that in mind. Also, the Wall Street Journal recently reported that Chinese officials have warned top AI researchers and executives against traveling to The United States, citing fears of sensitive information being leaked, like I said. So these measures reflect China's broader efforts to protect its AI sector from foreign influence and safeguard national security. Local governments reportedly have already begun integrating DeepSeek's open source models into infrastructure products, further solidifying its role in China's technological ecosystem. Alright. Our next piece of AI news, OpenAI has introduced a cutting edge agents SDK platform that simplifies and standardizes the process of building AI agents. And this combines updated APIs, advanced tools, and an open source developer framework. So OpenAI's new platform offers a complete stack for building AI agents, eliminating the need for companies to juggle multiple frameworks and tools.
Jordan Wilson [00:28:44]:
So businesses can now deploy AI agents faster and with fewer technical hurdles. Reliability has been one of the biggest roadblocks for AI agents, and OpenAI's strategy, to address this includes opening its ecosystem to external developers, allowing them to contribute innovative solutions to overcome agent failures and inconsistencies. So the revamped responses API integrates tool use seamlessly seamlessly with built in tools like web search, file search, and computer use. Yeah. That part's huge. So essentially, you know, OpenAI's operator, and to a certain extent, kind of like deep research. Right? So now, everyday businesses can take advantage of those same technologies and build their own tools or their own versions of OpenAI's now best technology. So the open source agents SDK allows businesses to orchestrate workflows involving multiple agents or models, even those outside OpenAI's ecosystem.
Jordan Wilson [00:29:47]:
This flexibility could reduce concerns about vendor lock in while keeping OpenAI as a central player. So OpenAI's new file search tool challenges specialized database vendors by offering built in retrieval augmented generation or RAG capabilities. So, enterprises can now upload data directly into OpenAI system, gaining transparency and traceability, that's huge, Critical for regulating industries like finance and health care. So but I mean, livestream audience, I, like, I always have my, like, my my toe on the line over how technical should should we make this show. Right? I started this for nontechnical people, to keep up with everyday AI, but it seems that everyday AI is getting more technical. Right? We haven't done dedicated shows yet even on, you know, these new AI IDEs, which I love. I'm excited about. I love tinkering around with, you know, tools like, you know, Cursor and using, you know, SONNET three five and three seven inside Cursor, I think is great.
Jordan Wilson [00:30:48]:
Windsurf, lovable, Bolt, you know, Microsoft, GitHub, Copilot. There are so many great kind of AI coding tools, and now this, you know, this new, agentic framework from OpenAI makes it extremely easy, for companies, to essentially use some of the most powerful AI tools in the world. So let me know. Right? Maybe I don't know. What's a good way to measure this? Alright. Live stream audience, if you think I should do this, say, like, yes, agents. And, if you think no, just say no agents. Alright.
Jordan Wilson [00:31:22]:
I'll go through and see, which one has more. So yes agents or no agents and, you know, that'll kind of let me know at least for our live stream audience and, I'll probably put a similar, call soon, in our newsletter asking all of our, newsletter audience, as well. So, yeah, it's something I'm I'm always personally, you know, torn on because I I I love it. I'm passionate about it. I think it's easy and it's great for, you know, business use cases, but, you know, I've always tried to make OpenAI, or or sorry, OpenAI, Everyday AI open. That's where I got tongue twisted there. Everyday AI open and accessible. Right? That's not the, the big breaking news at the thirty minute mark.
Jordan Wilson [00:32:04]:
I got that coming for you here in just a second. Alright. Yeah. I told you we're gonna break some break some news here. Alright. So, a new study from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia's Graduate School, of Journalism reveals some significant shortcomings in how AI chatbots retrieve and cite news consent. So according to this new study, nearly 60% of queries tested across eight generative AI search tools produce incorrect answers. Yikes.
Jordan Wilson [00:32:35]:
With varying levels of inaccuracy depending on the platform. So GROC three had the highest error rate, incorrectly answering 94% of queries. What? Wow. While Perplexity had a lower but still concerning error rate of 37%. So premium chatbots such as Perplexity Pro and Grok three provided more confidently more confidently incorrect answers than their free counterparts, despite higher cost and computational advantages. So chatbots often failed according to this report, or this new study. Chatbots often failed to decline answering questions they couldn't accurately address. For example, ChatGPT incorrectly identified a 34 articles, but rarely signaled uncertainty, declining to answer in only 15 out of 200 instances.
Jordan Wilson [00:33:32]:
So five chatbots, including ChatGPT and perplexity bypass bypassed publishers' robot exclusion protocol preferences, accessing content from websites that had explicitly tried and blocked their crawlers. Perplexity Pro was the worst offender, correctly identifying excerpts from, restricted articles nearly a third of the time. That's not good. That goes into that whole copyright thing. Right? Also, fabricated or broken URLs were common with Grok three and Gemini citing errors in over half of their responses. So licensing deals, between AI companies and publishers did not guarantee citations, or retrievals. For instance, despite partnerships with OpenAI perplexity, Time Magazine's content was not correctly identified 100% of the time. That's concerning.
Jordan Wilson [00:34:31]:
Right? Y'all, I've been telling you this, so, I'm not, necessarily, surprised, by by by much of this. Right? But some of the worst offenders were grok and perplexity. Right? I do think I will say this. I I do think grok's deep search has gotten better than in the, like, you know, seventy two hours after it was first released. But y'all, I've been telling you I've been telling you, perplexity has had some major hallucination problems, especially over the past year. And I've also said, hey. If I'm a business if if I'm a business owner, if if I'm a leader in an enterprise company, I'm not leveraging the x AI model or Grok for anything. Right? Even though I've personally incorporated it a little bit, their deep research tool, I'm never, you know, taking it as a single source of truth, and I don't think anyone else out there should either.
Jordan Wilson [00:35:30]:
But I am making it part of, kind of a multi LLM workflow. But, y'all, I've been telling you, perplexity, problematic with hallucinations. GRAC, problematic with hallucinations. And then this, this new study has confirmed that those are the two worst offenders. I don't like, y'all, I've been telling you this for so long. Sorry. I know it's Monday, and and, you know, I'm gonna get into hot take Tuesday mode. Joel, when I tell you these things, these aren't just personal preferences.
Jordan Wilson [00:35:59]:
Right? Maybe I need to start an everyday AI research arm so people can start taking, what we do a little more seriously. But, hey, if you're a long time listener, thank you, number one. But number two, you should know. Right? My background in investigative journalism, like, I don't tell you these things lightly, right? I don't like I don't say like, oh, perplexity has a hallucination problem when it happened like, you know, three or four times. I say that because I've personally witnessed it dozens and dozens, probably hundreds, but dozens and dozens of times, over the last nine months, and it's been bad. Right? The same thing with, Grok, their their data quality, some of the sources that they look at. Like I said, the deep search, I think has gotten better, but GRAC itself, extremely problematic. Right? So here you go.
Jordan Wilson [00:36:45]:
An actual study that backs that up. Alright. Couple more news stories. So, OpenAI is calling for a ban on Chinese AI models. Right? We kind of referenced this a little bit earlier, but let's get into the details. So OpenAI, has accused Chinese AI startup DeepSeek of being state sponsored and state controlled, raising concerns about security risk tied to Chinese laws requiring companies to share user data with the government. Yeah. Like I said, go listen to episode four sixty.
Jordan Wilson [00:37:20]:
Yeah. If if if your company is using deep seek, number one, if you're using it via the API or on their website, you you in any data that you upload, the Chinese government owns it. There's nothing you can do about it. Right? And then some people are like, okay. Well, I'm gonna download it and, you know, I'm gonna fine tune it. Okay. Well, you can do that. That's a little less risky.
Jordan Wilson [00:37:41]:
Or if you use it through an enterprise partner that has done the same. Right? Like, perplexity, Microsoft Azure, some other big, I I believe Amazon Bedrock have created some, like, quote, unquote, safer or better versions, of DeepSeek because it is open source. But doesn't that say something? If a company literally says, hey. We we essentially re retuned the model, because there was a lot of issues with it, but here you go. You know? I think the only reason some of these big companies did it, is because initially, the demand was through the roof. But I think the demand was probably bad to begin with. Right? Because although the demand was pent up, I think, on, like, oh, you know, this group, you know, that completely changed the way AI works and, you know, because they only spent, you know, $5,000,000. No.
Jordan Wilson [00:38:29]:
No. That is, I'll use OpenAI's words, state sponsored and state controlled messaging. Alright. So, they are urging OpenAI in that letter that we talked about. They are urging the US government to ban DeepSeek in The US. So in a letter to the Office of Science and Technology Policy, OpenAI's global affairs officer, Christer Lehan, Christopher Lehan warned that DeepSeq's models, including its r one reasoning model, could be manipulated by the Chinese Communist Party, the CCP, to cause harm in critical infrastructure and high risk use cases. So OpenAI call for a national export control strategy to promote global adoption of American, developed AI systems while restricting the use of AI models from The People's Republic Of China in tier one countries like The US. So DeepSeek is already banned in several countries, including Italy, Ireland, South Korea, Australia, and parts of the US government, but OpenAI's recommendations aim to tighten restrictions further.
Jordan Wilson [00:39:36]:
So the policy recommendation is part of the Trump administration's AI action plan initiative, which seeks to address the balance between innovation and regulation in the AI industry. So OpenAI previously accused DeepSeek also of violating its terms of service by distilling knowledge from OpenAI's models, adding to the contentious rivalry between the companies. Yeah. So OpenAI essentially said, yeah. One of the reasons why they may not have spent as much money as they did because they use our models and distill the information from there, so they're actually running up our bills. So, yeah. I'll let you all decide. And, you know, I know people are gonna give me flack, especially on YouTube.
Jordan Wilson [00:40:11]:
I think most of you guys are bots anyways. That's fine. Saying like, oh, you know, this Jordan guy, he's, you know, pro American and anti deep seek. No. I'm not. I'm pro truth. Right? And the truth is, right, I I live in The US, right, and I help US businesses use AI to grow. And I think one of the worst things company can do companies can do is to use DeepSeek's API, or to use their website.
Jordan Wilson [00:40:38]:
Right? To use their chatbot because any information that you put out there, right, goodbye. It's it is, literally, the terms of service give access to all your data to the Chinese government. Right. Completely different here in The US. Right? I know, like, most people don't understand data privacy and data protection. Right? But in The US, we have great laws. Right? In in California, right, which is where all the tech companies are based, there's great laws. Right? So number one, you know, which most companies don't understand this.
Jordan Wilson [00:41:09]:
Right? Because you're like so many companies are like, yeah. You know, we yeah. We've been thinking about, you know, really incorporating AI models, you know, at scale within our enterprise, but we're worried about data security. And I always say, where do you store your files? Right? And most people say, oh, you know, we use AWS, Microsoft Azure, or, you know, Google Cloud. And it's like, okay. So use Microsoft Copilot as your AI, you know, LLM. Use AWS's models because it is the same data protection. Your data's already there.
Jordan Wilson [00:41:45]:
I don't understand why people don't use their brains. But, anyways Alright. Two more quick news stories including one piece of breaking news. So, NVIDIA is set to have their GTC conference. Big news this week. So the whole world has their collective eyes on NVIDIA at, for their GTC conference, which may be one of the most important conferences of the year. And I say that not just AI conferences, not just tech conferences. This might be one of the biggest conferences of the year, period, because of the far reaching implications on The US economy.
Jordan Wilson [00:42:22]:
So, and and technically, the world economy. Because unless you've been under a rock, the last, you know, month or two, The US economy specifically has been been in a little bit of decline, partially because of, you know, this whole deep seek, you know, situation, that I just talked about. But also because there's been a lot of questions around the AI industry in general. Right? Can these big tech companies continue to, you know, innovate? Can they continue to drive profit? And, you know, a lot of companies are are, you know, where a lot of analysts now are saying, okay, there's been these, you know, multibillion dollar plans, for, you know, essentially AI, plants. Right? We need more energy. We need more, infrastructure. Right? There's been multi hundred billion dollar plans for infrastructure in AI in The US, and some of them have gotten scaled back, which has caused a lot of, investors to be like, oh, wait. You you know, is AI really the way of the future? Right? So, this is gonna be important because NVIDIA powers AI.
Jordan Wilson [00:43:32]:
Right? There's a very, very good chance that whatever AI, you know, tools or large language models you or your company is using at some point has been directly built on top of NVIDIA's hardware. Their GPUs are by far better than everyone else's. Right? And a lot of other big companies, are trying to build their own, GPUs or MPUs, TPUs, just AI chips in general, to lessen their reliance on NVIDIA because they're like, wait. If we're spending, you know, countless of billions of dollars on these NVIDIA chips, should we, at the same time, continue to use them but also invest some of this money to start creating our own chips. Right? I think it'll be hard for anyone to create a chip that is as powerful as Nvidia's. That's why they, you know, went from a relatively unknown company, you know, five years ago unless you were a gamer to the most, valuable company in the world when it comes to, you know, market cap. Yeah. I mean, not today.
Jordan Wilson [00:44:33]:
I should I should actually look it up here y'all. Let's see. US market cap. I wanna get this right if y'all just just wait a second here. So, yeah, they're they're usually between the first, to the third most valuable company when it comes to market cap. So right now, they're they're, number two behind, Apple. So they're in front of Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Meta, and some others. Right? So, NVIDIA is one of the most important, companies to The US economy.
Jordan Wilson [00:45:00]:
So a lot of eyeballs are gonna be like, woah. Like, what's gonna happen at GTC? How is, NVIDIA gonna respond to, you know, what's been happening in the stock market lately, what analysts are saying about the future of AI, and then, you know, what what about, like, these models like Gemma three. Right? That was, you know, essentially, trained on, like, one twentieth of the amount of, compute that other big models were. Right? So what happens, when models just get smarter and they don't need as much, you you know, they don't need as as many NVIDIA GPUs essentially, to run. So it should be pretty interesting. And like I said, I'm gonna be there, partnering with NVIDIA, bringing you a lot of exclusive insights, which I'm extremely excited about. And, yeah, you can attend for free. You can watch online, you know, including the, keynote from NVIDIA CEO Jensen Wong.
Jordan Wilson [00:45:54]:
And I will be, probably reporting literally live right after the keynote, from the, from the floor there, to give you my takeaways on, what was announced and what it actually means. So make sure to, you know, tune in to our our newsletter and all that stuff, for that. Alright. Last but not least, some breaking news now that the embargo has been lifted. So Zoom, bunch of new AI, announcements just announced minutes ago. So Zoom has announced a series of significant AI advancements at, Enterprise Connect twenty twenty five. So they've revealed over 45 new AI driven features, including updates to Zoom meetings, phone, team chat, docs, and contact center, designed to help users streamline tasks and improve efficiency. So the company's AI companion now uses reasoning and memory to perform complex tasks such as managing multi step actions and coordinating with specialized agents.
Jordan Wilson [00:47:00]:
So new agentic features include calendar management tools, automated clip generation, from your Zoom calls, real time meeting notes, and writing assistance for creating advanced documents. So businesses will be able to customize AI Companion through an add on launching in April for $12 per user per month, enabling tailored meeting templates, personalized avatars for video clips, and integration with proprietary data sources. So Zoom is also introducing industry specific solutions such as AI tools for frontline workers, clinicians, and educators to address unique professional needs and improving workflows. So these updates are part of Zoom's broader strategy to integrate small language models alongside third party AI systems for enhanced performance at lower cost. So pretty, pretty significant announcement, here from Zoom. So they're doubling down and tripling down, not only at trying to be more than just a communication tool. Right? More than a a video conferencing tool. I mean, what they're really trying to do here is they're trying to compete in the same category as, you know, Microsoft and Google.
Jordan Wilson [00:48:12]:
Right? They're trying to, you know, I think really siphon users, from Microsoft three sixty five Copilot, from, Google and all of Google's, Gemini AI offerings in their workspace settings. So they're essentially saying, like, hey. We have all this AI, and I had their head of AI on the show a couple of months ago, talking about, kind of how they build and how they build a little differently. Fascinating conversation. By the way, if you wanna go back and listen to that one, but, it should be interesting to see how this is received. I personally don't think that, they picked up the momentum that maybe they should have. I mean, they actually have a a pretty impressive, you you know, series of of AI tools. And like I said, they're bringing all these different collaboration tools, not just video.
Jordan Wilson [00:48:57]:
But I don't think they've really picked up as much steam as maybe they should have because I think people just still look at Zoom as video. Right? But they are trying to, you know, be a a collaboration, workspace. So, yeah. If you wanna know more about that, we'll have more information in the newsletter. Alright. I hope this was helpful, y'all. Please let me know if it was. Leave me a comment.
Jordan Wilson [00:49:23]:
Reach out. Drop me an email. I put my LinkedIn in there. You know, I don't want you to spend hours every single day reading all the AI news headlines and worrying about, like, what does this mean for me? What does this mean for my job? Right? That's what I try to do, you know, every single Monday with these AI news that matters. So I hope this is helpful. If so, if you're listening on the podcast, please subscribe. Please leave us a rating. I'd appreciate that.
Jordan Wilson [00:49:46]:
If you're listening on, you know, Twitter or LinkedIn to the live stream, please repost this. I'd super appreciate that. Also, as a reminder, I'm gonna be here live in San Jose at least the next three days. So if you are at the NVIDIA GTC conference, that runs from the, technically the sixteenth to the twenty first, but I think the majority of everything is on the seventeenth to the twentieth. So if you are at GTC, if you are, you know, in San Jose, hit me up. Let me know. Although I do have, I think, like ten hours of, podcast interviews, today. So I'm gonna be a tired guy, but please hit me up, and thank you for tuning in.
Jordan Wilson [00:50:28]:
I hope to see you back tomorrow. Well, actually, who knows? The rest of today. I mean, we're gonna have a lot of, a lot of exclusive, you know, podcasts and live streams. We might have some different times, FYI, you you know, depending on some some embargoes and when we can bring you, the latest news from GTC. So, you know, we might have an extra livestream or two, the rest of this week, maybe an extra podcast. But, essentially, over the next two ish weeks, we're gonna be having a lot of great and exclusive insights, coming to you, not just from NVIDIA, but from some of the biggest companies in the world, that have partnered with NVIDIA. So we're gonna be bringing you a lot of good, insights from GTC. So thank you for tuning in, and we hope to see you back tomorrow and every day for more everyday AI.
Jordan Wilson [00:51:11]:
Thanks, y'all.