Join us on The Before AGI Podcast for your essential AI News Digest. This week, we explore the "Great Diversification" of AI: OpenAI confirms GPT-5, Google's AlphaEvolve invents algorithms superior to human benchmarks, and a massive compute arms race escalates. We also cover the fierce AI talent wars (Meta vs. OpenAI), AI's real-world impact in law and government, and the diverging global push for regulation.
In this episode, you'll gain insights into:
🧠 Next-Gen Capabilities: OpenAI's O3 Pro & upcoming GPT-5 focus on reasoning; Midjourney V7 moves into video.
🔬 AI Accelerating Science: Google's AlphaGenome for drug discovery and USC's AllegroFM simulating billions of atoms.
💰 Compute & Talent Wars: Massive investments in data centers (OpenAI/Oracle, xAI) and talent (Meta, Google's acqui-hires).
🤖 AI in the Real World: Amazon's 1M robot fleet with DeepFleet AI; Microsoft's AI-driven layoffs; the UK's first AI law firm.
⚖️ Governance in Flux: The EU AI Act moves forward while the US rejects a federal moratorium on state laws.
🚨 Critical Safety Research: Anthropic's study revealing "corrigibility crisis" in autonomous agents.
This digest connects the dots on the breathtaking advances, the intense strategic maneuvering, and the urgent need for responsible governance shaping the future of AI.
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TOOLS MENTIONED:
OpenAI GPT-5 / O3 Pro / O4 Mini / Sora
Google DeepMind AlphaEvolve
Midjourney V7
Apple Intelligence / ChatGPT
Google Gemini 2.5 Pro / Gemini models
Anthropic Claude Opus 4
OpenAI GPT-4o.1
OpenAI for Government
Google DeepMind VEO 3
Google DeepMind AlphaGenome
Amazon DeepFleet
X AI Grok 4
Mistral AI DevStroll
Perplexity Co-pilot
Future House AI Agents
Future House Ether-Zero
FDA "Elsa"
Garfield Law
USC AllegroFM
WormGPT
Allen Institute for AI (AI2) OLMo / SINA
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