OpenAI’s New Model, Jensen’s Bold Claim, Alexa+ Is Here

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) OpenAI's release of GPT 4.5 2) Is GPT 4.5 a major advance or what? 3) What better EQ gets you in an AI model 4) What reasoning advances can be built on top of GPT 4.5 5) Is AI product or model more important? (cont.) 6) Gary Marcus says OpenAI is in trouble 7) Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 3.7 8) NVIDIA earnings 9) Jensen says reasoning costs 100x typical LLMs 10) Meta wants to build a standalone AI app 11) Will Alexa+ work? 12) RIP Skype --- 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	Let's break down what the release of GPT 4.5 means for Open AI and the future of generative AI.
0:06.1	Plus, Anthropic also has a new model.
0:08.6	Invidia CEO Jensen Wong makes a bold claim, and Amazon introduces a better version of Alexa.
0:15.0	That's coming up right after this.
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0:49.3	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition, where we break down the news in our traditional cool-headed and nuanced format. We have so much to talk you through this week. It feels like this week,
0:58.5	among many crazy weeks, has been one of the craziest. We have a new model from OpenAI,
1:02.4	a new model from Anthropic, a new Alexa, Nvidia earnings, and Skype is dead. So it was a very,
1:09.5	very promising week for a lot of companies, but not for Skype,
1:12.4	which will forever live in our memory. So we will say goodbye to Skype at the end of the show. But in the
1:17.6	meantime, joining us, as always, on Friday is Ron John Roy of Margins. Ron Chan, great to see you.
1:22.7	Happy new model week, Alex. How have all these new models changed your life as of today, February 28th?
1:29.8	Not at all, but we will talk about whether that will matter in the long term, because of course,
1:36.5	I put your, is it the model or is it the product question to OpenAI head of research,
1:43.4	Mark Chen. We talked about it. And now you're going to get a chance
1:47.0	to respond. But first, let's just break down the news because yesterday we had the release,
1:52.0	of course, of GPT 4.5 OpenAI for the first time ever put a spokesperson on this podcast. We broke
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