February 12, 2025

#199 - OpenAI's 03-mini, Gemini Thinking, Deep Research, s1

1 hour 37 minutes

Our 199th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Recorded on 02/09/2025

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In this episode:

- OpenAI's deep research feature capability launched, allowing models to generate detailed reports after prolonged inference periods, competing directly with Google's Gemini 2.0 reasoning models.

- France and UAE jointly announce plans to build a massive AI data center in France, aiming to become a competitive player within the AI infrastructure landscape.

- Mistral introduces a mobile app, broadening its consumer AI lineup amidst market skepticism about its ability to compete against larger firms like OpenAI and Google.

- Anthropic unveils 'Constitutional Classifiers,' a method showing strong defenses against universal jailbreaks; they also launched a $20K challenge to find weaknesses.

Timestamps + Links:

(00:00:00) Intro / Banter

(00:02:27) News Preview

(00:03:28) Response to listener comments

Tools & Apps

(00:08:01) OpenAI now reveals more of its o3-mini model’s thought process

(00:16:03) Google’s Gemini app adds access to ‘thinking’ AI models

(00:21:04) OpenAI Unveils A.I. Tool That Can Do Research Online

(00:31:09) Mistral releases its AI assistant on iOS and Android

(00:36:17) AI music startup Riffusion launches its service in public beta

(00:39:11) Pikadditions by Pika Labs lets users seamlessly insert objects into videos

Applications & Business

(00:41:19) Softbank set to invest $40 billion in OpenAI at $260 billion valuation, sources say

(00:47:36) UAE to invest billions in France AI data centre

(00:50:34) Report: Ilya Sutskever’s startup in talks to fundraise at roughly $20B valuation

(00:52:03) ASML to Ship First Second-Gen High-NA EUV Machine in the Coming Months, Aiming for 2026 Production

(00:54:38) NVIDIA’s GB200 NVL 72 Shipments Not Under Threat From DeepSeek As Hyperscalers Maintain CapEx; Meanwhile, Trump Tariffs Play Havoc With TSMC’s Pricing Strategy

Projects & Open Source

(00:56:49) The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) Releases Tülu 3 405B: Scaling Open-Weight...

(01:00:06) SmolLM2: When Smol Goes Big -- Data-Centric Training of a Small Language Model

(01:03:56) PhD Knowledge Not Required: A Reasoning Challenge for Large Language Models

(01:08:26) OpenEuroLLM: Europe’s New Initiative for Open-Source AI Development

Research & Advancements

(01:10:34) LIMO: Less is More for Reasoning

(01:16:39) s1: Simple test-time scaling

(01:19:17) ZebraLogic: On the Scaling Limits of LLMs for Logical Reasoning

(01:23:55) Streaming DiLoCo with overlapping communication: Towards a Distributed Free Lunch

Policy & Safety

(01:26:50) US sets AI safety aside in favor of 'AI dominance'

(01:29:39) Almost Surely Safe Alignment of Large Language Models at Inference-Time

(01:32:02) Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against Universal Jailbreaks across Thousands of Hours of Red Teaming

(01:33:16) Anthropic offers $20,000 to whoever can jailbreak its new AI safety system

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