Today’s episode covers the biggest AI news stories of the week, including Nvidia’s massive earnings report, OpenAI’s deep research rollout for ChatGPT Plus users, and Perplexity’s new agentic browser.

The team also discusses Microsoft’s sudden pullback from its data center expansion, Meta’s $200 billion AI campus, and China’s underwater data centers.

Other key stories include Nvidia’s AI-powered genetics research, Google Drive’s new searchable video transcripts, and a surprising AI mistake from Sakana.

Key Points Discussed

🔴 Nvidia’s earnings report could shake the AI industry, with investors watching closely for signs of slowing growth

🟡 Nvidia and Ark Institute’s AI model Evo2 aims to map the genetic code for all life, accelerating biomolecular research

🟡 Microsoft is scaling back its data center expansion, while Meta is going all-in with a $200 billion AI data center campus

🔴 China is expanding its underwater data centers, designed for energy efficiency and protection from environmental damage

🟡 OpenAI now offers deep research to ChatGPT Plus users, but with a limit of 10 queries per month, sparking debate on its usefulness

🔴 Perplexity has announced Comet, a new agentic search browser designed to enhance AI-powered research and automation

🟡 Sakana walks back claims that its AI dramatically speeds up model training after users find a 3x slowdown instead of an improvement

🔴 Google Drive introduces searchable video transcripts, allowing users to find content within their stored videos

🟡 AI models are being trained to decode animal emotions, suggesting a universal pattern of emotional communication across species

🔴 New research from MIT suggests AI models process data similarly to the human brain, strengthening comparisons between artificial and biological intelligence

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Timestamps & Topics

00:00:00 🎙️ [Introduction: Major AI News This Week]

00:00:55 🔍 [Nvidia’s Earnings Report and Market Impact]

00:03:22 🧬 [Nvidia’s AI Genetics Breakthrough with Evo2]

00:10:33 🏢 [Microsoft Scaling Back Data Centers While Meta Invests Billions]

00:18:52 🌊 [China Expands Underwater Data Centers]

00:26:14 📊 [OpenAI’s Deep Research Comes to ChatGPT Plus – Is 10 Queries Enough?]

00:38:40 🚀 [Perplexity’s Comet Agentic Browser Announcement]

00:47:33 🤖 [Sakana Walks Back AI Model Training Claims]

00:51:14 🎥 [Google Drive Adds Searchable Video Transcripts]

00:54:45 🐴 [AI Unlocks Emotional Language of Animals]

00:56:08 🧠 [MIT Research Shows AI Models Process Data Like the Human Brain]

00:58:19 📢 [Closing Thoughts & What’s Next in AI]

The Daily AI Show Co-Hosts: Andy Halliday, Beth Lyons, Brian Maucere, Eran Malloch, Jyunmi Hatcher, and Karl Yeh