Today's podcast covers:1. [The Model is the Product | Vintage Data](https://vintagedata.org/blog/posts/model-is-the-product)Welcome to Pocket to Podcast. Today we have 1 article covering the evolution and future trajectory of AI models in market development and research. The article from Vintage Data, titled "The Model is the Product," delves into the recent shift in AI development, suggesting that the model itself has become the central product in this next cycle of AI evolution. Amidst speculation about the future direction of AI—be it agents, reasoners, or multimodality—the article posits that all signs point towards models being the main focus. This assertion is backed by the stagnation in generalist scaling and the geometric rise in compute costs versus the linear growth of capacities, as highlighted by the release of GPT-4.5. OpenAI's struggle to deploy GPT-4.5 affordably underscores the economic challenges in scaling AI models.A significant point made in the article is the effectiveness of opinionated training, which combines reinforcement learning and reasoning, leading to models that are not ju...Generated by Pocket to Podcast