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
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