#127: 12 Days of OpenAI Continues, Gemini 2, Hands-On with o1, Andressen Says Gov’t Wanted “Complete Control” Over AI & OpenAI Employee Says AGI Achieved

While Santa's loading his sleigh, Silicon Valley's dropping AI
breakthroughs by the hour. OpenAI's "12 Days of Shipmas" keeps the
gifts coming with ChatGPT Canvas, Apple Intelligence integration,
and game-changing video capabilities. Not to be outdone, Google
jumps in with Gemini 2.0 and its impressive Deep Research tool.
Join Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput as they unwrap these developments,
plus rapid-fire updates on Andreessen's AI censorship bombshell, an
OpenAI employee's AGI claims, and the latest product launches and
funding shaking up the industry. Access the show notes and show
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membership.  Timestamps: 00:05:39 — OpenAI 12 Days of Shipmas:
Days 4 - 8 00:18:54 — Gemini 2 Release + Deep Research 00:33:03 —
Hands-On with o1 00:46:18 — Perplexity Growth  00:50:46
— Andreessen AI Tech Censorship Comments 00:56:22 — OpenAI AGI
01:00:38 — Amazon Agent Lab 01:03:38 — Pricing for AI Agents
01:07:45 — OpenAI Faces Opposition to For-Profit Status 01:11:13
—Ilya Sutskever at NeurIPS 01:14:20 — Mollick Essay on When to Use
AI 01:16:15 — Product and Funding Updates Visit our website Receive
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