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Online journalist Matthias is the co-founder and publisher of THE DECODER. He believes that artificial intelligence will fundamentally change the relationship between humans and computers.
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Deepseek's $5.6M Chinese LLM wonder shakes up the AI elite

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Apple AI researchers question OpenAI's claims about o1's reasoning capabilities

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Study reveals major reasoning flaws in smaller AI language models

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OpenAI has already begun training its next reasoning model, according to statements made at the World Economic Forum in Davos. During his presentation on ChatGPT's roadmap to 2025, OpenAI chief product officer Kevin Weil revealed that the company is working on a successor to its yet-to-be-released o3 model, likely called o4. Weil expects this new model to bring another "another big jump in capabilities," Weil said, adding that it took OpenAI just three months to go from o1 to o3 (technically o2), and he expects even shorter iteration cycles for future models.

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Google is putting another billion dollars into OpenAI competitor Anthropic, adding to its previous $2 billion investment from fall 2023. This latest move likely makes Google one of Anthropic's biggest investors alongside Amazon, which has committed $8 billion to the company. In addition, Anthropic is expected to receive another $2 billion from various Silicon Valley venture capital firms. The company, known for its Claude AI models, is now valued at around $60 billion - though that's still less than half of OpenAI's $157 billion valuation. The increased backing comes as Anthropic has been gaining ground on OpenAI, particularly in business-to-business services and code generation capabilities, and as the hype around generative AI, particularly around agents, continues.

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Sam Altman's position on Donald Trump has changed dramatically since 2016. The OpenAI CEO, who once called Trump's principles "an unacceptable threat to America" and criticized him as "absuvie [sic], erratic, and prone to fits or rage" on Twitter, is now taking a more conciliatory approach. An OpenAI spokesperson told Axios that Altman is now willing to work with Trump and his administration at a "pivotal moment for AI and American innovation." The change in position comes with action - Altman privately donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund - and at a complicated time for OpenAI, as the company faces a lawsuit from Trump ally Elon Musk. Musk's lawsuit seeks to shut down OpenAI, and he's found an ally in Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who recently aligned his own company's policies with Trump's values.

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Anthropic CEO expects major AI breakthrough, plans to launch "virtual collaborators"

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DeepSeek's latest R1-Zero model matches OpenAI's o1 in reasoning benchmarks

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MatterGen: Microsoft presents AI tools for generating and simulating new materials

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