Paul and Mike are back to catch you up on everything you missed over the holidays. From OpenAI’s o3 model breaking human-level reasoning barriers to Sam Altman dropping cryptic hints about superintelligence, we’ve got all the updates. Plus, discover Google’s new “AI mode,” and why Microsoft is betting $80 billion on next-gen data centers. Start 2025 with a whole lot of AI.

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Timestamps:

00:04:37 — OpenAI Announces o3

00:11:19 — Superintelligence

00:23:15 — Policy Implications of AGI Post-o3

00:31:00 — OpenAI Structure

00:35:15 —  Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk

00:37:46 — GPT-5/Orion Is Behind Schedule and Crazy Expensive

00:42:13 — Google Introduces Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking

00:46:04 — Google ‘AI Mode’ Option 

00:49:23 — Google Publishes 321 Real-World Gen AI Use Cases

00:52:09 —Google 2025 AI Business Trends Report

00:54:55 — Satya Nadella on the BG2 Podcast

00:59:16 — Claude Pretends to Have Different Views During Training

01:05:29 —Facebook Planning to Flood Platform with AI-Powered Users

01:09:43 — DeepSeek V3

01:14:23 — Microsoft Outlines “The Golden Opportunity for American AI”

01:21:08 — Here’s What We Learned About LLMs in 2024

01:24:34 — Funding and Acquisitions

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