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AI Weekly News - O3 Pro, DeepThink, Meta's $14B Scale AI Play
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AI Weekly News - O3 Pro, DeepThink, Meta's $14B Scale AI Play

Weekly AI Digest: Reasoning leaps, industry wars, energy crises, and regulation chaos.

Join us on The Before AGI Podcast for your essential AI News Digest. This week: OpenAI launched O3 Pro with advanced reasoning, Google demoed DeepThink for Gemini, and Meta made a $14.3B power play for Scale AI, shaking up the data labeling landscape. We also cover Apple's privacy-first AI, critical AI energy consumption warnings, the landmark Common Corpus dataset release, and the turbulent state of global AI regulation.

In this episode, you'll gain insights into:
🧠 Reasoning Race: OpenAI's O3 Pro, Google's DeepThink, and DeepSeek's R10528 pushing the boundaries.
🔬 AI for Science: MIT/Recursion's BOLTS2 democratizing drug discovery.
💰 Full-Stack AI Control: Meta's strategic $14.3B investment in Scale AI and its industry implications.
🔒 Privacy & On-Device: Apple Intelligence's approach and Anthropic's Claude Gov for secure applications.
Systemic Challenges: AI's massive energy footprint (MIT report), the need for ethically sourced data (Common Corpus), and regulatory divergence (EU vs. US).
💡 Beyond Scaling: The search for efficiency with AlphaEvolve and VerSe AI's Axon.

This digest connects the dots on the intense competition, technological breakthroughs, infrastructure battles, and critical governance debates shaping AI's future.

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TOOLS MENTIONED:

  • OpenAI O3 Pro / O1 Pro / ChatGPT

  • Google Gemini 2.5 Pro (with DeepThink) / Gemini models

  • Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet / Claude 4 / Claude Gov

  • Alibaba Quin3

  • DeepSeek R10528

  • Llama models (Meta)

  • Mistral

  • BOLTS2

  • Scale AI

  • Apple Intelligence / Private Cloud Compute (PCC)

  • Hugging Face

  • EleutherAI

  • LAION

  • Salesforce

  • Informatica

  • NVIDIA (RTX Pro Servers)

  • Google DeepMind AlphaEvolve

  • VerSe AI Axon / Active Inference

CONTACT INFORMATION:
🌐 Website: ianochiengai.substack.com
📺 YouTube: Ian Ochieng AI
🐦 Twitter: @IanOchiengAI
📸 Instagram: @IanOchiengAI

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