# #207 - GPT 4.1, Gemini 2.5 Flash, Ironwood, Claude Max

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Podcast: [Last Week in AI](https://stenobird.com/podcast/last-week-in-ai)
Published: 2025-04-18T07:47:56+00:00
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Our 207th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 04/14/2025 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/ . Join our Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP In this episode: OpenAI introduces GPT-4.1 with optimized coding and instruction-following capabilities, featuring variants like GPT-4.1 Mini and Nano, and a million-token context window. Concerns arise as OpenAI reduces resources for safety testing, sparking internal and external criticisms. XAI's newly launched API for Grok 3 showcases significant capabilities comparable to other leading models. Meta faces allegations of aiding China in AI development for business advantages, with potential compliances and public scrutiny looming. Timestamps + Links: Tools & Apps (00:03:13) OpenAI’s new GPT-4.1 AI models focus on coding (00:08:12) ChatGPT will now remember your old conversations (00:11:16) Google’s newest Gemini AI model focuses on efficiency (00:14:27) Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, launches an API for Grok 3 (00:18:35) Canva is now in the coding and spreadsheet business (00:20:31) Meta’s vanilla Maverick AI model ranks below rivals on a popular chat benchmark Applications & Business (00:25:46) Ironwood: The first Google TPU for the age of inference (00:34:15) Anthropic rolls out a $200-per-month Claude subscription (00:37:17) OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence reportedly valued at $32B (00:40:20) Mira Murati’s AI startup gains prominent ex-OpenAI advisers (00:42:52) Hugging Face buys a humanoid robotics startup (00:44:58) Stargate developer Crusoe could spe…

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