Musk’s OpenAI Bid, Sam Altman’s Roadmap, Apple + Alibaba

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) Musk's $97 billion bid for OpenAI 2) Whether the bid is real 3) How damaging could holding up OpenAI's for-profit conversion be? 4) Musk throws OpenAI off its rhythm 5) New OpenAI roadmap: GPT-4.5 and GPT-5 are coming 6) Should models flip dynamically between standard LLM and reasoning 7) Anthropic strikes back 8) Apple + Alibaba partnership 9) iPhone SE launch looms 10) TikTok is back in app stores... so what? 11) Jamie Dimon says get back to work. --- 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	Elon Musk bids $97 billion for Open AI, but is his bid real?
0:05.1	Sam Altman reveals OpenAI's roadmap as the future of generative AI looks a bit clearer,
0:10.6	and Apple finally has an AI partner in China.
0:13.6	That's coming up on a Big Technology podcast Friday edition right after this.
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0:53.0	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition where we break down the news in our traditional cool-headed and nuanced format.
0:59.8	We have a massive week of news to break down for you.
1:01.8	We have this Elon Musk bid or is it a real bid.
1:04.6	We'll get into that for OpenAI.
1:06.7	Also, we have so much more clarity on the roadmap of Open AI and its fellow generative AI
1:11.6	companies following this week.
1:13.1	So we're going to talk about what's coming next from them.
1:16.8	We also have an Apple intelligence partner in China.
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