AI Pulse 🚨
A bite-sized curation of this week's most important AI news.
🚀 OpenAI launches o3-pro model. The company released o3-pro, its most advanced reasoning model yet, now live for ChatGPT Pro and Team users—replacing o1-pro as the default.
🌟 Sam Altman on “The Gentle Singularity”. OpenAI’s CEO published a must-read blog post about AI’s future. He says we’re “past the event horizon” of superintelligence and expects dramatic changes by 2030—but believes the transition may feel smoother than we think. Key points include AI doubling researcher productivity, ChatGPT queries using just 0.34 watt-hours, and the importance of making future intelligence broadly available.
đź’° OpenAI slashes o3 pricing by 80%. OpenAI cut prices to $2 per million input tokens (down from $10) and $8 per million output tokens (down from $40).
📊 a16z’s Enterprise AI Report. According to a16z’s annual survey, AI is moving from side project to core infrastructure. 75% of companies expect AI budget growth, and over a third are now using five or more models across vendors like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.
🌟 Meta’s $15B superintelligence push. Meta has finalized a $15B deal for a 49% stake in Scale AI. Zuckerberg is personally leading a small “superintelligence” team with eye-popping compensation offers—seven to nine figures—sitting close to him at HQ.
🔄 ChatGPT Projects get major update. ChatGPT Projects now support deep research, voice mode, and better memory. Users can combine live web results with project data, use voice for hands-free prompting, and share conversations via links.
🔬 Microsoft launches Copilot Vision on Windows. Copilot Vision adds real-time visual guidance to Windows, including a new “Highlights” feature that shows users where to click. Available now in the U.S. via Copilot Labs for Windows 10 and 11.
🧠Meta unveils V-JEPA 2 world model. Meta’s V-JEPA 2 is a 1.2B parameter model trained on video. It enables zero-shot robotic planning with up to 80% success on pick-and-place tasks—advancing physical reasoning.
🚀 YC Demo Day goes all-in on AI. Spring 2025 Demo Day featured AI-first startups like Den (AI for knowledge workers), Anvil (SEO for LLMs), and Eloquent AI (customer ops automation).
💬 Nvidia CEO challenges Anthropic. At VivaTech Paris, Jensen Huang pushed back on Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s concerns about AI job displacement, arguing AI will augment, not replace, most human roles.
🧠Gemini 2.5 Pro gets a coding boost. Google’s updated Gemini 2.5 Pro now performs better at programming tasks and creative writing. Available in AI Studio, Vertex AI, and the Gemini app.
🤖 Sundar Pichai: AI won’t replace coders. On the Lex Fridman podcast, Google’s CEO said AI now helps write 30% of the company’s code—but emphasized it frees engineers to focus on design, not take their jobs.
🎓 Career advice from Google Cloud’s CTO. Will Grannis encourages technologists to pair Computer Science fundamentals with modern AI tools—shifting from “prompt engineering” to “context engineering” as the key job skill.
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