Is OpenAI’s o3 Model AGI?, Is AI The New Social Media?, Zuck’s Revealing Testimony

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) Is OpenAI's o3 model AGI? 2) Maybe it's AGI when you squint 3) Why people are floating the idea that OpenAi is close to AGI 4) Is OpenAI going to declare that GPT-5 is AGI 5) What's in it for companies saying they've achieved AGI first? 6) AI's new memory capabilities add something big to the experience 7) Is AI the new social media? 8) Facebook has moved away from friend sharing 9) Could Google be broken up? 10) Is Google's stake in the open web actually a good thing? --- 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	OpenAI's new model has serious people coming out of the woodwork, calling it artificial general intelligence.
0:06.0	What exactly is going on? Plus, AI gains as social media fades, and Google loses a massive antitrust trial.
0:14.0	That's coming up right after this.
0:16.0	Hi, I'm Kwame Christian, CEO of the American Negotiation Institute, and I have a quick question for you.
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0:57.0	We'll navigate career pivots.
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1:09.0	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition where we break down the news in our traditional
1:13.0	cool-headed and nuanced format.
1:15.1	We have a major week of news for you, including a massive new model release from OpenAI,
1:21.1	Facebook, testifying in a court against the FTC, Google, losing two antitrust cases, and of course, plenty more AI news to talk about this week.
1:32.9	We're going back to our traditional format after doing a full episode on the tariffs and the trade war last week.
1:39.1	We're back talking about AI, back in our bag, as we should say.
1:43.6	Joining us, as always, is Ron John Roy of margins.
1:46.8	Ron John, great to see you. Welcome back to the show.
1:48.6	AGI is here. How could I miss it? Day three of AGI being part of our lives.
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