# #195 - OpenAI o3 & for-profit, DeepSeek-V3, Latent Space

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Published: 2025-01-05T19:59:00+00:00
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Our 195th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news! *and sometimes last last week's Recorded on 01/04/2024 Join our brand new Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP Note: apologies for Andrey's slurred speech and the jumpy editing, will be back to normal next week! Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . Sponsors: The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligence. In this episode: - OpenAI teases new deliberative alignment techniques in its O3 model, showcasing major improvements in reasoning benchmarks, whilst surprising with autonomy in hacks against chess engines. - Microsoft and OpenAI continue to wrangle over the terms of their partnership, highlighting tensions amid OpenAI's shift towards a for-profit model. - Chinese AI companies like DeepSeek and Quen release advanced open-source models, presenting significant contributions to AI capabilities and performance optimization. - Sakana AI introduces innovative applications of AI to the search for artificial life, emphasizing the potential and curiosity-driven outcomes of open-ended learning and exploration. If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form . Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:03:07) News Preview (00:03:54) Response to listener comments (00:05:00) Sponsor Break Tools & Apps (00:06:11) OpenAI announces new o3 model (00:21:17) Alibaba slashes prices on large language models by up to 85% as C…

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