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#199 - OpenAI's 03-mini, Gemini Thinking, Deep Research, s1

Feb 12, 2025

Summary

This episode covers OpenAI’s O3 Mini and Deep Research, Google’s Gemini 2.0 rollout, and Mistral’s new mobile app. The hosts discuss the future of RAG, the strategic shift toward inference hardware, and SoftBank’s $40 billion investment in OpenAI. Additional topics include AI music generation by Riff Fusion and Pika Labs’ video editing features.

Topics discussed

Sponsor intro and episode overview Host banter and listener feedback on AI music OpenAI O3 Mini and Google Gemini 2.0 releases OpenAI Deep Research and agent scaling curves Mistral updates, Nvidia CapEx, and AI media generation SoftBank investment in OpenAI and European data centers ASML EUV lithography and Nvidia stock analysis Open source models: Tulu 3, Small Goes Big, and benchmarks Research papers on reasoning, scaling, and distributed training AI policy shifts, safety research, and episode outro
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