#212 - o3 pro, Cursor 1.0, ProRL, Midjourney Sued

Our 212th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Recorded on 06/13/2025

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.
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In this episode:

• OpenAI introduces O3 PRO for ChatGPT, highlighting significant improvements in performance and cost-efficiency.
• Anthropic sees an influx of talent from OpenAI and DeepMind, with significantly higher retention rates and competitive advantages in AI capabilities.
• New research indicates that reinforcing negative responses in LLMs significantly improves performance across all metrics, highlighting novel approaches in reinforcement learning.
• A security flaw in Microsoft Copilot demonstrates the growing risk of AI agents being hacked, emphasizing the need for robust protection against zero-click attacks.

Timestamps + Links:

• (00:00:11) Intro / Banter
• (00:01:31) News Preview
• (00:02:46) Response to Listener Reviews
• Tools & Apps
  • (00:04:48) OpenAI adds o3 Pro to ChatGPT and drops o3 price by 80 per cent, but open-source AI is delayed
  • (00:09:10) Cursor AI editor hits 1.0 milestone, including BugBot and high-risk background agents
  • (00:13:07) Mistral releases a pair of AI reasoning models
  • (00:16:18) Elevenlabs' Eleven v3 lets AI voices whisper, laugh and express emotions naturally
  • (00:19:00) ByteDance's Seedance 1.0 is trading blows with Google's Veo 3
  • (00:22:42) Google Reveals $20 AI Pro Plan With Veo 3 Fast Video Generator For Budget Creators
• Applications & Business
  • (00:25:42) OpenAI and DeepMind are losing engineers to Anthropic in a one-sided talent war
  • (00:34:32) OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats
  • (00:37:24) Nvidia’s Biggest Chinese Rival Huawei Struggles to Win at Home
  • (00:43:06) Huawei Expected to Break Semiconductor Barriers with Development of High-End 3nm GAA Chips; Tape-Out by 2026
  • (00:45:21) TSMC’s 1.4nm Process, Also Called Angstrom, Will Make Even The Most Lucrative Clients Think Twice When Placing Orders, With An Estimate Claiming That Each Wafer Will Cost $45,000
  • (00:47:43) Mistral AI Launches Mistral Compute To Replace Cloud Providers from US, China
• Projects & Open Source
  • (00:51:26) ProRL: Prolonged Reinforcement Learning Expands Reasoning Boundaries in Large Language Models
• Research & Advancements
  • (00:57:27) Kinetics: Rethinking Test-Time Scaling Laws
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