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Top AI Developments You Need to Know for February 2025
In the ever-evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, keeping up with the latest developments can be a daunting task. This week, several significant announcements from major players in the AI field highlight key advancements and challenges. Here's a comprehensive look at the AI news that matters for business leaders and decision-makers.
AI Giants and Their Latest Moves
This week has been buzzing with AI news as large tech companies announce major updates and releases. One notable highlight is the impending release of new AI models. Companies are gearing up with significant updates—some models expected to be released soon include OpenAI's anticipated GPT-5 and Anthropic's hybrid model, which promises to blend deep reasoning with rapid response capabilities. These advancements are set to transform how businesses utilize AI for a range of applications, enhancing efficiency and offering innovative solutions.
Elon Musk and OpenAI: A High-Stakes Drama
A high-profile drama continues to unfold between Elon Musk and OpenAI. Musk's audacious bid to acquire OpenAI, a company he helped cofound, was rejected. This move is part of a broader feud, which underscores growing tensions in the AI industry—highlighting the increasing competition and stakes associated with AI's future. Despite Musk's efforts and the legal disputes involved, OpenAI remains firm in maintaining its independence and commitment to its nonprofit mission. Business leaders should watch this space as strategic alliances and rivalries in AI can significantly impact market dynamics.
The Evolution of Voice Assistants
AI-powered voice assistants like Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa are facing delays in their AI enhancements. The launch of their improved versions has been postponed due to software glitches and inaccurate responses. These setbacks provide an important reminder for business decision-makers about the realities of AI development—there can be significant hurdles even for industry giants. Companies relying on these technologies should plan for these delays and explore alternative AI solutions as they navigate their digital transformation strategies.
Breaking Ground with Deep Research Tools
Perplexity AI has unveiled its deep research capability, offering extensive research features accessible even to non-paying users—a move that democratizes AI access. This tool provides in-depth exploration in fields such as finance and marketing, transforming complex research tasks into manageable activities. For business leaders, leveraging such tools can significantly enhance strategic decision-making, providing more profound insights into market trends and consumer behavior.
Advancements in AI Video Creation and Robotics
Google's VO2 AI model finally makes its presence felt, albeit in a constrained manner with YouTube's dream screen feature. As businesses increasingly incorporate video content into their marketing strategies, this advancement offers new creative possibilities.
Meanwhile, the realm of AI extends into humanoid robotics, with Apple and Meta advancing in this space. As businesses consider automation and robotics for operational efficiency, the ongoing developments in AI-powered robotics present new opportunities for innovation.
OpenAI's Strategic Roadmap and New Releases
OpenAI announces its upcoming roadmap, revealing plans for GPT-4.5 and GPT-5 releases. The move aims to streamline product offerings and enhance user experience through a more integrated AI system. Business leaders should keep a close eye on these developments, as they promise to provide more sophisticated tools for enhancing productivity and facilitating complex problem-solving.
Preparing for the AI-Driven Future
The latest AI developments signify significant strides in advancing technology that will impact various business sectors. From strategic narratives driving AI dialogues to the practical delays and releases, understanding these dynamics is crucial for making informed decisions. Business leaders must remain agile, embracing both the opportunities and challenges presented by these technological advancements to remain competitive in an increasingly AI-driven world.
Topics Covered in This Episode
1. OpenAI GPT model updates
2. Grok 3 launch
3. Apple and Amazon voice assistants
4. YouTube Veo 2 Integration
5. Apple and Meta's Robotics
Podcast Transcript
Jordan Wilson [00:00:16]:
New AI models. New AI models everywhere. That is the name of the game this week when it comes to AI news. The big companies are releasing some big updates. Some probably coming as soon as today, others probably coming within the new next week or two. So Elon Musk says that XAI's Grok three is being released tonight. OpenAI has laid out the plans for GPT five and more, and new reports are saying that Claude's highly anticipated new model, so the new model from Anthropic, will be a hybrid model. So we're gonna be talking about what those stories mean and a whole lot more today on everyday AI.
Jordan Wilson [00:01:07]:
What's going on y'all? My name is Jordan Wilson, and I'm the host of everyday AI. I do this thing for you. This is your daily livestream podcast and free daily newsletter, helping us all try to keep up with AI news, but actually put it into use to grow our company and, our careers. That's what this show is all about. So maybe this is your very first time tuning in. Thank you very much. If you haven't already, please check out your everydayai.com. That is our website, but that is your new BFF in AI.
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Jordan Wilson [00:02:15]:
Y'all, like, you have to. It's it's wild. Right? So, played these a month ago, and so many of the things that I talked about, which at the time seemed a little weird, have already come to fruition. So go check those out on our website, episodes four forty three through four forty seven. Alright. Let's get into it. So each almost every single Monday, we bring you the AI news that matters. So what that is is, well, every single day we do this, and then on Mondays, that's kind of our, guide to help you start the week off right so you can walk into the workplace knowing exactly what's happening in the world of AI and how it will impact you.
Jordan Wilson [00:02:52]:
So, you know, we cut through the fluff, cut through the PR, and hopefully just bring you the realest on what actually matters. Alright. Let's get into it. And, hey, thank you livestream audience, for tuning in. Big Bogeyface, Sandra, and doctor Harvey joining on YouTube. Douglas, Allen, Brian, Woozi, Graham, lots of faces in the house. Max joining from Chicago holding it down like me. Parimi, Pedro, everyone else, thank you for joining.
Jordan Wilson [00:03:20]:
Appreciate y'all tuning in. So OpenAI is not for sale regardless of what Elon Musk is trying to say. So Elon Musk's bid to acquire OpenAI has been officially rejected amid the ongoing feud with the old company that he helped cofound. So OpenAI's board has unanimously rejected $97,400,000,000 acquisition bid from a group led by Elon Musk, reinforcing its commitment to remain independent and focus on its new nonprofit status. So the rejection was made public through a statement on x, a social media platform obviously owned by Musk, emphasizing that OpenAI is not for sale and aims to ensure that artificial general intelligence or AGI benefits all of humanity. So CEO Sam Altman humorously responded to Musk's takeover bid by attempting to instead buy Twitter or x for, 9,740,000,000.00, which I think would be overpaying for it. You know? I know Musk bought it for, like, 44,000,000,000, but most estimates say it's worth, like, 10 now. So it's just kind of highlighting this ongoing tensions between Musk, a cofounder of OpenAI, and the current OpenAI leadership, namely CEO Sam Altman.
Jordan Wilson [00:04:39]:
So Musk has a long standing feud with OpenAI's leadership, accusing them of straying from their nonprofit ideals and is currently involved in a legal action to prevent the company from becoming for profit. OpenAI's attorney dismissed Musk's offer as a not serious bid, further underscoring the board's unanimous decision to reject it. Y'all, can we just be honest? Most of what Elon Musk does in the AI space, it's it's it's for engagement. It's it's for theater. It's it's to drive a narrative. Right? Unfortunately, a lot of people believe this. Right? Which is sad. Right? Spoke to a group of CEOs actually on Friday, you know, helping them, doing a keynote for them in a workshop.
Jordan Wilson [00:05:25]:
And one of their hesitations in rolling out OpenAI was, well, they weren't sure on what was gonna happen with this whole, you know, Elon Musk and OpenAI takeover. Right? So, you know, people that don't follow this every single day like me probably didn't realize that this wasn't a serious, it wasn't serious from Elon Musk. What he's trying to do is he's trying to essentially drive up a fair market value price for OpenAI, that they'll have to deal with when it comes to their transition from a for profit to a nonprofit. Right? Also, I don't know. It's it's kind of funny coming from Elon Musk, you know, that he said when he released Grok, I I think Grok two, that he was gonna open source Grok one, said the same thing, you know, oh, when we release Grok three, he's gonna open source Grok two. Right? So his his big thing at least, you know, on paper and by on paper, I mean, on, mean tweets is is saying that, you know, OpenAI is is no longer it's, you know, nonprofit mission and and and no longer, you know, open source. Right? Like, he he but that was never the case. Right? And there's been so many emails and lawsuits floating around, but this is, you know, it was more or less, I think, if I'm being honest, what I think this was all about was to drum up conversation, specifically for releasing GROC.
Jordan Wilson [00:06:44]:
Right? Because that is our next AI news story. So Elon Musk GROC three is set to launch tonight, at least according to Elon. So, Elon Musk's x AI group is preparing to launch GROC three, which is being described as the smartest AI on Earth tonight. So, yeah, Monday, February 7. So this new AI model is expected to surpass its competitors by offering enhanced reasoning capabilities, faster computation speeds, and a groundbreaking approach to learning. GRAC three has been trained on XAI's Colossus supercomputer, which uses an impressive 100,000 NVIDIA h 100 GPU. So, yeah, it is the largest, kind of AI supercenter that's up and running right now in the world, and, you know, impressive and and hats off, to xAI and and Elon and the team for getting that set up so quickly. So that setup provides 10 times the computing power to train Grok versus its predecessor.
Jordan Wilson [00:07:51]:
So the AI reportedly employs synthetic data sets to simulate a wide range of real world scenarios. So this approach helps in, well, on paper, reducing bias and enhancing the system's adaptability. GROC three reportedly features self correction mechanisms that allow it to refine errors in real time and maintain logical consistency. Elon Musk's goal to redefine AI developments is positioning XAI as a significant contender against established players like Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic. A recent $6,000,000,000 funding round has attracted major investors such as NVIDIA and AMD, providing XAI with a, somewhat of a competitive edge in the market. At least, you know, there's very few companies that have raised $6,000,000,000 plus. You know, I'm curious, livestream audience. Are you gonna be using Grok? My hot take, right, and this is judging by the original Grok and Grok two, I would never use it, not for a real business use case.
Jordan Wilson [00:09:02]:
I would never tell a business or advise a business to use it either. We'll see if GROC three changes that. One of the main reasons is that, unfortunately, Twitter slash x has been a main source of its training data, which is not good. Right? And you might say, oh, Jordan. Well, you know, Llama, you know, uses Facebook data and and, you know, Instagram data. And it's like, yes. It does, but not as one of its main training sources. So, you you know, kind of one of the biggest, USPs for Grok has been its real time integration with XData.
Jordan Wilson [00:09:38]:
Right? And I've done plenty of videos on this channel. It actually does worse of a job at connecting, in real time to x than other large language models do. So it's it's it's kind of, or at least than other large language models do in connecting to real time data. Right? So you would think, oh, if I could use Grok, you know, I can know up to the minute information, and it often doesn't work like that. So, I mean, we'll see. I would love to be proved wrong. I do think if I had to give predictions, I think that Grok will bench very, very well. I think it could be a, you know, maybe top three or number one model in terms of Elo scores on the LM arena.
Jordan Wilson [00:10:21]:
But I really don't think that we're gonna see widespread adoption, especially here in The US for that very reason. Right? You have to have a high level or at least some level of of trust and security in how models were trained. And if a large portion of GROC three, at least, is trained off of real time Twitter and axe data. That's not something most companies are even going to stick their toe in. But, you know, people on Twitter are gonna yell at me for this because they love Elon and everything he does. And they say everything he touches is gold, but, you know, again, I don't think most serious businesses, will use Grok for the most part. Joe Joe here on LinkedIn says I won't touch Grok just like I won't touch DeepSeek. I will say from a data and privacy perspective, I will say Grok is should be safe.
Jordan Wilson [00:11:13]:
Right? It should be safe to use, because it's based here in The US. So, you know, we have our our nice, data and privacy laws, protecting us. But, yeah, I still I still don't think we're gonna see much widespread, use of of Grok. Right? It'll probably explode on Twitter. Like I said, it's probably gonna do a a great job, some some different benchmarks, but I think that's probably where it will end. Alright. Speaking of things that I wish were a little better, tech giants, Siri, sorry, Apple and Amazon are facing some major AI powered delays in their voice assistance. So, yeah, seems like, Alexa and Siri might not be getting very AI smart anytime soon.
Jordan Wilson [00:12:03]:
So, Apple and Amazon are both experiencing significant delays in launching their new and improved AI enhanced voice assistance primarily due to software glitches and inaccurate responses during internal testing. So that is according to Bloomberg. Apple's revamped Siri initially planned for release in April may be postponed until May or later due to persistent software bugs and engineering issues. Apple's major Siri enhancements are include are supposed to include improved user data access, app control, and screen context understanding are not consistently performing as expected. Similarly, the Washington Post reports that Amazon is delaying the release of its large language mal large language model powered Alexa initially launched as a limited demo in 2023 due to incorrect responses found during testing. Amazon plans to announce the Alexa update on February 26, but public public access is not expected until at least March 31. So the new version of Alexa will offer premium features like personality customization, call reminders, and service ordering capabilities, although some features are already available in the current free version. Apple is considering various launch strategies for its new and improved, Siri, including adding new features in April's updates, but disabling them by default until the iOS 18.5 update in May.
Jordan Wilson [00:13:36]:
A fully LLM powered Siri capable of human like conversations is not expected until next year. Why? Why? Why? I don't know how like, I don't know how many times I got a bellyache about this. We've had very great AI voice assistance from OpenAI and from Google for many months. Alright? So, yes, Google is a giant tech conglomerate, but we've had extremely impressive options now dating back to the latter part of 2024. And, reportedly, Amazon and Siri have been working on this for many years, reportedly many, many millions of dollars. I don't understand. I don't understand how I still can't ask Siri or Alexa for absolutely anything other than the time and the weather, which is, like, exactly what I used it for ten years ago. Right? I don't understand.
Jordan Wilson [00:14:47]:
I I I literally don't understand. And, you know, I've I've been lucky enough to talk to people that have been very involved in its development, and I still don't understand how Apple and Amazon have dropped the ball so hard. Right? Because I do think that we're gonna see, especially, with some some some new advancements from OpenAI and from Google. I think we're those are gonna catch on very mainstream. Right? I think, first of all, I mean, you have to tip your cap, to, Amazon and Apple for having this technology. What what? Ten years ago? At the time, it didn't feel nice. It felt advanced. Now it's obviously very stale and frustrating to use.
Jordan Wilson [00:15:27]:
But now I just on my new, on my new iPhone, I just programmed, you know, the side button to automatically launch, ChatGPT voice search. Right? So now it's like, at least on my phone, I don't know if I'll ever use Siri. Right? As long as I can touch one button, I'm instantly chatting with ChatGPT, which is seemingly a hundred times smarter and a hundred times more useful than Siri. I don't think Siri can really do anything, right now, which is a little disappointing. But, hey. Hopefully, that'll change. Hopefully, that'll change. Alright.
Jordan Wilson [00:16:07]:
Next piece of AI news. Perplexity has released its version of deep research to compete with OpenAI and Google. So Perplexity AI has launched its version of deep research, a new mode designed to provide extensive research capabilities in minutes, making it newsworthy for its potential to transform how users conduct complex research tasks. So the big, I think, news here is it's free. Right? For so users with free accounts can make up to five queries per day, while pro users essentially have unlimited use of it. You can I guess you're capped at 500, deep research queries a day, but, like, I'm doing the math, right, because they take two to five minutes? That'd be very hard to actually hit 500, of these deep research queries a day. So, yes, users with a free perplexity account can do up to five. And, essentially, if you're a paid, perplexity pro user like I am, you have unlimited access to this feature.
Jordan Wilson [00:17:13]:
So the feature is, adapt at handling expert level queries in fields like finance, marketing, and product research, offering detailed responses quickly. Deep research has shown strong performance, scoring a 21% on humanity's last exam, a new, kind of AI benchmark for large language models. So the company is expanding its reach by planning to offer deep seek research also on iOS, Android, and Mac platforms, and it is currently live and available on the web. So despite facing legal challenges from media organizations over copyright issues, Perplexity AI is not only just rolling this out and still it looks like it using some of these even same sources that they're, facing some legal challenges against, but also they're currently negotiating revenue sharing agreements with publishers like Time and Fortune according to reports. So, so yeah. Great great, comment here from Max on LinkedIn. So saying that you can use deep seek r one through perplexity too. Yeah.
Jordan Wilson [00:18:23]:
So it's a little confusing, because they've they've had essentially a reasoning search where you could, tap into either deep seek's r one or OpenAI's o3. So they did have this, kind of it was like almost like a research, like a deep research light version because they had essentially a reasoning search already available. And and it is a little confusing. So, actually, what we have going tomorrow, we are doing a deep, research perplexity deep research episode. So we're gonna be talking about what it is and if you should use it. Alright? And then, yeah, back to back because I think this new deep research category, it is going to be huge. Right? And I think one of the reasons being, there was a lot of initial, which makes sense. Right? But there was a lot of initial hesitation for companies to use large language models because they thought, okay.
Jordan Wilson [00:19:25]:
All this means is our employees are gonna be copying and pasting. Right? They're gonna just copy and paste things from these large language models, which is often bad. Right? Because large language models, at least like two years ago, unless you were using ChatGPT, which had good access to the web via browse with Bing, Google's really struggled to or sorry. Google Gemini really struggled to use Google. Right? Microsoft Copilot did a good job at accessing Bing. But for the most part, you run into a lot of issues that people were just lazily not really trying to understand how these AI models worked. They would just copy and paste things from a large language model, and oftentimes, that's just using its internal training, its internal data set, which, you know, people always look at the cutoff date. Right? Like, as an example, the cutoff date for GBT four o right now is June 2024.
Jordan Wilson [00:20:14]:
And they're like, oh, all the information out of here is from June 2024. No. It's not. Right? So much of what makes it into these large language models can be many years old, which makes sometimes the outputs kind of dangerous to use, especially for novice users who don't know what they're doing, which is why I think the deep research boon is going to be huge. Right? Because, essentially, what this does is it ensures, a higher accuracy rates because these, both from, perplexity, OpenAI, and Google, it really goes in it sometimes researches dozens or hundreds of websites and then it kind of relies on the underlying model. So I do think this is going to be a sweeping new category of tools and it is going to be, kind of like a second ripple, right? So we kind of saw the the ChatGPT moment of November 2022 which really brought generative AI into the mainstream. I do think for those companies that have not widely adopted generative AI yet, I do think this is going to be kind of the second I won't say wave, but this is going to be a second ripple. Right? Most companies, they don't care about AI images.
Jordan Wilson [00:21:27]:
Most companies don't care about AI video, but they are going to care about this. Right? So that's why we're actually doing back to back episodes. So tomorrow, we're gonna be going over so tomorrow, Tuesday, February 18, we're gonna be going over perplexity, deep research. And then the next day, so Wednesday, in two days from right now, we're gonna be doing a deep research throwdown. We're gonna be comparing perplexity, Google, and OpenAI's versions of deep research. I'm excited about this episode. I'm a geek y'all. Like, yeah.
Jordan Wilson [00:21:56]:
I spent, like, my weekend doing this, you know, making charts and testing things. Right? Like, this is what we do. I spend hours at night and on the weekends testing all of these things so you don't have to, and I share my results, and I give it to you straight. Right? I'm not gonna lie to you on, oh, this one's great. This one's garbage. Right? So make sure you join us for those episodes. Alright. Our next piece of AI news.
Jordan Wilson [00:22:20]:
Well, the world's most powerful AI video tool is now publicly available, but not in the way that you would think. So, YouTube has upgraded its dream screen feature with Google's new VO two AI model, enabling faster and higher quality AI generated backgrounds and stand alone clips for YouTube shorts. So, yeah, the the the v o two, access was extremely limited. Right? They it still is not generally available, but, you can now use it in in very limited fashions. Right? So if you're working on a YouTube short, in the dream screen, feature, then you can use it. So, the integration of VO two allows for quicker generation of AI videos and images supporting a wider range of subjects with more detailed visual output. New capabilities include the creation of stand alone video clips in addition to AI driven backgrounds, offering creators more versatility in content production. It's not available to everyone yet, but the initial rollout of this feature does cover users in The US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand with plans for future expansion to other regions.
Jordan Wilson [00:23:38]:
So users can access dream screen by selecting the shorts camera within the YouTube app. Okay. So open the YouTube app, go to the shorts camera, then you can access the dream screen powered by VO two by tapping the green screen option and entering a text prompt to generate AI backgrounds or stand alone clips. Google is trying to ensure a little bit more AI transparency by applying their synth ID watermark and to create clear labels that it is AI generated media. So not exactly the rollout of Google's v o two that a lot of people were hoping for, but anyone that wants to at least go test it out, to see if especially, I think, for, you you know, creative companies, visual companies, or any marketing department, really, I think you should at least be testing this out. You should be looking at it. So when and if we get v o two access, right, v o one was never publicly made available. V o two still not publicly made, available.
Jordan Wilson [00:24:49]:
If you had good timing on their Discord server, you probably got, you you know, early access to it, but, most people do not have access to it just yet. Alright. Let's get to some OpenAI updates. So OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced on Twitter slash x slash whatever you wanna call it that they have released an updated version of their GPT four o model. So, yeah, this normally isn't very big news. Right? Because OpenAI and other, you know, AI companies do release, kind of under the hood updates. So what that means is they'll release updates to a model without necessarily renaming it. Right? So this isn't a GPT 4.5, or anything like that.
Jordan Wilson [00:25:39]:
So it is still called GPT four o. However, it is extremely more impressive. Right? I don't know if anyone else has been using it over the last two days, but no real updates on what's included, which is bonkers. Alright. So, hey, AI companies, sometimes you do a great job at this, sometimes you fail. Right? So OpenAI released this out. No change log. No model notes.
Jordan Wilson [00:26:04]:
Absolutely nothing. Right? So why is that problematic? Well, when companies roll out updates to models, especially on the API, right, so you might be running a huge part of your software off of GPT four o or GPT four o mini as an example. So if there's not detailed, updates on what was changed, you essentially just have to do a bunch of engineering over again to try to figure it out on your own. So I'm sure there's, thousands of companies right now and grumpy developers that are waking up Monday morning and being like, oh, you know, they're getting tickets on saying, hey. You know, our our system isn't working correctly. You you know, we're not getting ideal customer support. Right? Whatever you're using, the GPT four or model for, it could be going much better or much worse. Right? So, kind of disappointing that OpenAI doesn't release a little bit more details.
Jordan Wilson [00:26:57]:
But, what I've seen and what other people have talked about, a better personality, a better writing style, less censored, and just better benchmarks. Right? Let's check this out. So looking at the LM arena chatbot leaderboard, the GPT four o model is back in a three way tie for first. So if you don't know what the LM chatbot arena is, essentially, you go in, you put a prompt, you get two responses. You don't know, who's what, like, what company it it is. You vote on which one's better. So it's essentially like a blind taste test. Right? Like the Pepsi versus Coke, marketing campaign of the nineties.
Jordan Wilson [00:27:40]:
Right? And then the winner gets a score. Right? So you have this thing called an Elo score, and then there's kind of a a margin of error. So what that means is that technically, GPT four o is in a tie for the top ranking, with Gemini two point o pro, the new version that just came out, and Gemini two point o flash thinking. Both of those were just released in the last couple of weeks. So, one other thing, kind of some unique reporting here from us. Well, looks like OpenAI is taking even more shots at Google, some original reporting here. I didn't see this anywhere. I I didn't know if this was a mistake that, you know, showed up over the weekend.
Jordan Wilson [00:28:28]:
You know? On the weekends is normally where I do a lot of my LLM testing because during the week, I'm busy bringing you guys a daily livestream podcast and newsletter. And I noticed that I'm like, what is this? Is this OpenAI is showing an autocomplete suggestions? Yes. They are. So interesting here, a very Google esque. Right? So when you go into Google search and you start typing something and you see all of these suggestions, right, it's actually very helpful in Google search. I don't know how helpful it will be, in, ChatGPT, but this is a new feature. I didn't see literally anyone else in the world because I was googling it. I was, using AI search engines to to to look for it.
Jordan Wilson [00:29:09]:
Looking on Twitter, I couldn't find anything. So it could be a feature that is slowly rolling out, but, essentially, when you start to type a query, you may get autocomplete suggestions. So couple new things from OpenAI. But speaking of it, the big news, I think, the probably the biggest piece of news this week is, Sam Altman, announced on Twitter their upcoming essentially road map and releases for models, which is something that they generally don't do a lot. Kind of the open eye play the open AI playbook over the last, like, year has been kind of these just, like, teasing online. Right? Like, they drop these little hints. It's almost like little Easter eggs and, you know, then they build up a ton of hype and then, you know, either they're gonna announce something out of nowhere or, you know, like they did in December. They had the twelve days of OpenAI, you know, ship miss.
Jordan Wilson [00:30:02]:
But this one is interesting because actually a much higher level of transparency, here from, Sam Altman and really just talking openly about some of the challenges that they're facing and some of their plans. But the biggest thing is, announcing the upcoming release of GPT four five and GPT five. So they are aiming to simplify the company's complex product offerings. So Altman described GPT five, which is known internally as Orion, as the final non chain of thought models. Okay? So this is marking a shift toward a unified AI system. So there even after this tweet announcement and all the press coverage, there's still some things that are a little vague. There's still some gray areas, so just keep that in mind and, you know, we'll we'll link, to that, tweet thread in our newsletter today if you wanna read it. But, essentially, he said that GPT five is going to be more of a system, and it's not and it's going to integrate different reasoning models into a cohesive system.
Jordan Wilson [00:31:11]:
So, the free tier of ChatGPT in the future will have unlimited access to g p t five, while paid subscribers will get higher intelligence levels. And then pro subscribers, which are those paying, you you know, $200 a month will get the highest. So it doesn't so it looks like essentially GPT five will not be a traditional GPT model because, GPT 4.5 is going to be the last of the non reasoning model. So that is the standard transformer model. So it looks like GPT five will still have a a maybe it's a just an updated version of GPT 4.5. I'm not sure. But essentially, it's going to have some sort of GPT five that's going to be more of a system that is going to recognize if it needs to use a a transformer type model to answer your query, or if it's going to use a a reasoning model and then at what level it is going to give it to you as well. Because as an example, right now, right, I have a pro plan.
Jordan Wilson [00:32:13]:
So I have access to GPT four o, GPT four o Mini, GPT o, or sorry, o one o one normal, o one pro, o3 mini, o3 mini high. Right? It's confusing. And then you have all the tools. Right? You have Canvas. You have tasks. You have operator. You have deep research. Right? So it looks like GPT five is going to be more of a system, and it will essentially have use of all the tools and all of the models.
Jordan Wilson [00:32:44]:
And so it's not gonna be going into this, you know, pick your model, choose your tool. It looks like g b d five will be a system, and will have a use a combination probably of a transformer, type model and a o series or a reasoner model, but doing it all under the hood. So Altman indicated that these releases are expected within weeks or months. Alright. So, you know, that could be six months. Who knows? Or it could be as soon as a couple of weeks. So they're aiming to streamline the user experience by eliminating that current model picker, and OpenAI has been very transparent that they kind of stink at naming models. Right? Yeah.
Jordan Wilson [00:33:26]:
Like o3 minutei, o3 minutei high, o one, o one pro, GPT four o, GPT four o, Mini. Right? It's it's it's it's so confusing. It's so confusing. So, despite delays and reports of increased costs, Altman dismissed claims that AI progress has stalled maintaining optimism about OpenAI's advancements. Yeah. It's funny. Yeah. Denny here is saying when is OpenAI going to hire a marketing person to help name its models? Well, it looks like this new GPD five system approach, there might not even be any model names.
Jordan Wilson [00:33:59]:
Who knows? I mean, we'll see. I'll save most of my judgment, for when this comes out. I'm obviously a power user. Right? I think one of the problems maybe is, you know, I'm guessing 99% of the population is not a power user like me. Right? I generally use large language models, depends on the day. I'd say anywhere from nowadays three to ten hours a day. Right? So let's say I average using large language models for, like, five or six hours. That's a ton of time.
Jordan Wilson [00:34:28]:
I I have no problem right now with the current, feature sets of OpenAI or any other tool, but I I do assume the overwhelming majority of users can get quite confused. And that probably keeps people maybe from paying a paid subscription or upgrading to a higher tier because they're just confused. They're like, I don't know what any of these things are, let alone if I need them. Right? But we have seen a huge push from OpenAI and y'all. This is in response, I think, to Google. People are like, oh, you know, DeepSeek came out with this amazing model. No. Go look at DeepSeek now.
Jordan Wilson [00:35:04]:
It's it's banned in so many countries. US businesses, I think, aren't gonna be adopting it at a high level. Right? Let's just be honest. Right? There's there's, legislation out there that would find companies for using it. I don't think that version, of the bill is actually ever going to make it into actual legislation. But, you know, DeepSeek had its moment for, like, a week. And now it's, you know, it's no longer the cheapest model in terms of, you know, price per quality. It's not even close.
Jordan Wilson [00:35:34]:
Right? So, I do think OpenAI did this in response to Google. Right? That's that's who they're going after y'all. Look at everything they did. They made ChatGPT search free. You don't even have to be logged in. They made their biggest model, or or or one of their more powerful models in o3 mini free for, limited use cases even for free users. Right? People are like, oh, this isn't responsive. No.
Jordan Wilson [00:36:00]:
It's not. It's not in response to deep seek people. I don't know. I just don't think people like to use their brains. OpenAI is going after Google, and Google went bonkers in December. And they continue to go bonkers, you know, all the way through February. They're very silent for a long time. Right? But Google came out straight up swinging.
Jordan Wilson [00:36:22]:
So I personally think that and, yeah, I talk to people off the record, you know, at OpenAI and at Google, but this is my personal, my personal thoughts. I think all of this is in response to Google. Right? Even Sam Altman, you know, on, on Super Bowl Sunday, there was a tweet or maybe it was the Saturday before looking at the top websites in the world. And, OpenAI was had actually the biggest growth of any of those. I think it was a list of the top seven. And his response was have a long way to go to catch Google because Google was obviously number one. That's who they're after or not after. They don't care about deep seek.
Jordan Wilson [00:37:00]:
I don't think they necessarily care even about, you know, Claude. Right? Even though that's probably on paper their closest competitor. They are going after billions of users. Alright? That's what they're going after. Alright. Speaking of some of their closest competitors and new models, so Anthropic Claude is set to launch a new hybrid model in weeks. So Anthropic is preparing to release its next major AI model, which is expected to arrive within weeks according to reporting by the information. So the new model is described as a hybrid capable of switching between deep reasoning and fast responses, offering flexibility for various applications.
Jordan Wilson [00:37:43]:
So a sliding scale will be introduced for developers, allowing them to manage costs associated with the model's deep reasoning capabilities. So according to the report, Anthropic's soon to be released new model outperforms OpenAI's o3 minutei high reasoning model in specific programming tasks and excels at analyzing large code bases. So, CEO Dario Amodi expressed the company's focus on creating differentiated reasoning models, questioning the distinction between normal and reasoning models. So this development highlights Anthropic's commitment to advancing AI technology and could significantly impact businesses relying on AI for complex problem solving. So, I mean, we'll see. We'll see what actually happens here, and I'd be very interested on the timing. Right? So I don't know. We might see a a GPT 4.5 release, right after we get this new model from Anthropic because it's been I I don't know.
Jordan Wilson [00:38:46]:
I lost track. It's been, like, nine or ten months since we've seen an update, from Anthropic, which in, like, AI and large language model terms is, like, decades. Right? Quads, they did update kind of, SONNET 3.5, Claude SONNET three point five, but they still just called it Claude SONNET three point five. So was it really an update? Right? Or is it what just, you know, OpenAI did over the weekend with, GPT four o? You know, but Claude Claude three point five saw it still does remain extremely popular for developers and for coders. Right? So even though we don't talk about it a ton on the show, that's because right now, I don't think there is a ton of general business use cases outside of just development for cloud 3.5 Sonnet. I think in almost everything else, you should be probably looking at or using Google Gemini models or OpenAI models or, you know, obviously, Microsoft Copilot is powered by OpenAI's model. So for the most part, I don't see a ton of use cases. And one of those reasons is, well, Claude has been offline this whole time.
Jordan Wilson [00:39:53]:
Right? So there's been reports that Claude will have some Internet connectivity, maybe alongside these reasoning models. Maybe it'll be a different release, but, you know, that's one of the reasons I I I've been saying all along. Companies shouldn't be using Claude. Right? Unless you're using it on the back end. But, you know, for front end users, which is a lot of times what I'm talking it's talking about on this show. Right? If if you have a ChatGPT enterprise account or if you have, you know, Google Gemini across your workspace or maybe you have, you you know, Microsoft three sixty five Copilot, those are all connected to real time information on the Internet. Right? Claude is not on the front end. So if you're using, you know, Claude.ai, if you have a a Teams account, whatever, you could be working with extremely old information, which makes the outputs unreliable, period.
Jordan Wilson [00:40:40]:
So I am excited to see what anthropic releases next, and I hope this new hybrid model includes the ability for it to have real time information from the Internet. Alright. More tech giants in the fold this week. So we have Apple and Meta reportedly competing in the AI powered humanoid robotics, field. So Apple and Meta are entering a new territory for their rivalry focusing on AI powered humanoid robots according to a report from Bloomberg. So the competition between these two tech giants is significant as it could really change the way that everyday tasks are automated in homes, impacting industries and consumer lifestyles. So according to reports, Meta is adopting a software first strategy, creating a new unit within its reality labs division to develop a foundational software platform for humanoid robots similar to Android for robots. So the company aims to leverage its expertise in sensors, computing, and AI, including its llama AI models to gain a competitive edge.
Jordan Wilson [00:41:47]:
Meta has started hiring engineers, to support its vision of helping other companies bring humanoid robots to market in the coming years. Apple, on the other hand, is focusing on seamless hardware and software integration, developing a tabletop device with a robotic arm that could either be extremely weird or extremely cool, and exploring mobile robot concepts akin to Amazon's Astro. So the company, Apple may eventually create a full fledged humanoid robot competing with Tesla's Optimus or, figures o one and o two. Although it faces, huge challenges in AI development, particularly with those buggy Siri things that we just talked about. So app Apple's decade long experience in self driving car technology could provide valuable insights for its robotic navigation within homes. Meta's robotic division is led by Mark Whitton, former CEO of GM's Cruise self driving units, while Apple's initiative is headed by Kevin Lynch, known for known for his work on Apple Watch. Alright. Last but not least, Adobe has launched public beta for its AI video generator enhancing its creative tool sets.
Jordan Wilson [00:43:08]:
So Adobe has released its text and image to video AI generator, generate video to the public in beta form marking a pretty significant step from the powerhouse that is Adobe. So this tool is part of Adobe's Firefly web app, which now includes updated image generation and translation capabilities, making it a comprehensive platform for creators. So Generate Video offers two main features. Here's here's the gist. Text to video and image to video, allowing users to create video content from text descriptions or by using reference images. So the video output quality has been improved to ten eighty p HD at 24 frames per second, though the maximum clip length is currently limited in just five seconds. So bummer there. Adobe is working on both a faster and a lower resolution model as well as a four k model to enhance future capabilities.
Jordan Wilson [00:44:10]:
So it looks like they're kinda going this, you know, small, medium, large, and it looks like what's available now is probably more of a medium tier. The Firefly web app now integrates with creative cloud apps such as Photoshop and Premiere Pro, streamlining the workflow for those users. Adobe emphasized that Firefly, this is the big thing, is trained on public domain and licensed content, ensuring its tools are safe for commercial use. And that will be a big, talking point over the next, couple of years, if I'm being honest, because both OpenAI and Google have been a little vague and every other company. Right? Runway, Luma, everyone else. They don't really talk about how their video models are trained. Presumably, they just scrape any video or photo it can find on the Internet, presumably. Right? But Adobe has really emphasized more of a safer, approach, you know, using tools that it has for commercial use.
Jordan Wilson [00:45:12]:
Although previous, previous reports have said that up to, I believe it was 5% of what Adobe had trained previously for some of its, visual models included images from Midjourney, which kinda makes the whole, like, oh, we have commercial use rights for this moot point if you're using things from Midjourney. So the AI video market is becoming increasingly competitive with Adobe facing challenges from companies like OpenAI, Google, ByteDance, PicoLabs. There's another handful or so, from China over the last month that have really been impressive. So two additional tools called scene to image and translate audio and video are also now available in public beta offering new creative possibilities for users. So how much will it cost? Adobe has introduced two Firefly subscription plans, Firefly standard at $9.99 a month and Firefly pro at $29.99 per month, each offering various levels of credits and access to features. Alright. That's it. Let's do the very quick rundown as a recap.
Jordan Wilson [00:46:23]:
Here is the AI news that matters for this week. Number one, Elon Musk's bid to acquire OpenAI was rejected amid their ongoing feud. Number two, Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot is set to release tonight, so we'll see how that goes. Number three, we've seen some pretty sizable now, delays according to reports for Apple's AI powered Siri and Amazon's AI powered Alexa. Number four, Perplexity has unveiled its deep research tool, so make sure to join us tomorrow as we give a rundown on that. And then on Wednesday, as we compare the three major deep research tools, AI story number five, YouTube. We finally now have a v o two release, but just on YouTube shorts. So very, limited scope that you can use it.
Jordan Wilson [00:47:22]:
AI news story number six, GPT four o. We saw some under the board, sorry, under the hood updates from the GPT four o model that shot it back up to tied for first in the LM chatbot arena leaderboard. Number seven, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman went to Twitter to talk about new GPT five updates and kind of how these models might just get married together. Number eight, finally seeing some movements from Anthropics Claude, and they will reportedly be launching a new hybrid AI model in the coming weeks. Number nine, both Apple and Meta are reportedly going much deeper into the AI powered humanoid robotic space. And last but not least, number 10, Adobe has launched a public beta for its AI video generator. Alright, y'all. I hope that this was helpful.
Jordan Wilson [00:48:19]:
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