#223 - Haiku 4.5, OpenAI DevDay, Claude Skills, Scaling RL, SB 243
Summary
This episode covers Anthropic’s Haiku 4.5 and Skills, OpenAI’s App SDK, and Microsoft’s AI in Office. It discusses OpenAI’s massive hardware deals, Zoox and Waymo robotaxi expansions, and major fundraising for Reflection AI and General Intuition. The hosts also analyze scaling laws for reinforcement learning and new open-source tools for voice cloning and agent auditing.
Topics discussed
Sponsors: OutShift, Box, and Silver Mirror Facial Bar
Introduction and episode overview with guest Eric
Anthropic launches Haiku 4.5 model
OpenAI app store, AgentKit, and Sora API updates
Anthropic Skills and Claude Agents SDK
Microsoft Copilot agent mode in Excel and Word
Google Veo 3.1 video generation model release
Slack AI assistant and Salesforce Agent Force 360
OpenAI's massive infrastructure deals with Broadcom and AMD
ByteDance's Doubao AI surpasses DeepSeek in China
Robotaxi updates: Zoox in Vegas and Waymo in Tokyo
Fundraising: American, General AI, and Supabase
Open source: NewTTS Air voice cloning and Anthropic's Puffer
Research: RL scaling laws, verbalized sampling, and weight decay
Policy: California AI chatbot law and AI content statistics
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