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 AlphaGenome invents new science, the talent and infrastructure wars heat up with Meta's $14.3B Scale AI play and OpenAI's move to Google TPUs, and the world grapples with a fragmented regulatory landscape.
In this episode, you'll gain insights into:
🧠 Next-Gen Models: The promise of OpenAI's GPT-5 and the rise of powerful open-source alternatives.
🔬 AI for Science: How Google's AlphaGenome is transforming biological discovery from lab work to a predictive computational science.
⚔️ Corporate Strategy: Meta's aggressive move for control of the data labeling supply chain and the industry fallout.
⚙️ Hardware Diversification: The end of NVIDIA's singular dominance as Google's TPUs prove their mettle in cost-effective inference.
🏢 Enterprise Reality: The "adoption chasm" between AI's potential and the practical challenges of implementation and workforce training.
⚖️ Global Governance: The diverging paths of AI regulation in the EU, US, and beyond, and the rise of local ethical frameworks.
This digest connects the dots on the key trends, breakthroughs, and strategic shifts defining this critical maturation point for the AI industry.
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TOOLS MENTIONED:
OpenAI GPT-5 / GPT-4 / O3 / O4 Mini
Midjourney V7
OpenAI Sora
Runway
Minimax M1
Scale AI
Google Cloud TPUs
NVIDIA GPUs
FDA "Elsa" AI
Google DeepMind Gemini Robotics
C3 AI
Zhipu AI
Google DeepMind AlphaGenome
WormGPT
Delve.AI
Google A2A Protocol
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