Boom Times For ChatGPT, OpenAI’s Deep Research, AI Super Bowl

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Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) New data showing ChatGPT's impressive growth since mid-2024 2) Was ChatGPT voice mode responsible? 3) How important ChatGPT's growth is for OpenAI 4) How seriously DeepSeek challenged ChatGPT's traffic numbers 5) Does brand matter or are bots interchangeable? 6) OpenAI does the Reddit AMA 7) Experimenting with OpenAI's Deep Research 8) Why AI reasoning methods contain so much promise 9) New Gemini releases 10) Weird Gemini naming conventions 11) Big Technology in New York Times' Klarna story 12) Are the AI Super Bowl ads a good idea? --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. For weekly updates on the show, sign up for the pod newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6901970121829801984/ Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack? Here’s 40% off for the first year: https://tinyurl.com/bigtechnology Questions? Feedback? Write to: [email protected]

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0:00.0	New chat GPT growth numbers come in.
0:02.5	Open AIs built a pretty good research assistant,
0:05.0	and the Super Bowl fills up with AI ads.
0:07.7	We'll cover that on a Big Technology Podcast Friday edition right after this.
0:11.8	Hi, I'm Jonathan Fields.
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0:44.3	your podcasts and walk away with practical advice you can implement today. Welcome to Big Technology
0:51.4	Podcast Friday edition, where we break down the news in our cool-headed and nuanced format.
0:55.8	We have a major week of news to cover and some of our own to break.
0:59.4	And we're joined, as always, on Friday in studio, live from Spotify headquarters by Ron John Roy of margins.
1:07.0	Ron John, great to see you in person.
1:08.2	Finally, welcome back to the show.
1:09.5	Big Technology Podcast Friday edition is all cleaned up today. Alex and I are here at Spotify Studios. We're sounding
1:15.5	good. Usually we're sitting both in New York or in some strange locale having a conversation
1:21.0	through the computer screen, but today we talk in person. And we love to cover the news every week. This week we're going to break some news or at least share some new data on chat GPT that I've gotten from similar web, which shows chat GPT's really interesting growth story. So we're going to start there. And then of course, we're going to cover deep research with both, which both you and I have spent $200 to try. And then, of course, it's the Super Bowl this
1:45.9	weekend. So we're going to talk about why these companies are spending money on Super Bowl ads
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