EP 513: OpenAI’s new open model, Copilot updates, Perplexity going after Siri & more AI News That Matters
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Open AI has introduced a new lightweight version of its deep research tool and has expanded access to free users. So Open AI is rolling out a new lightweight version of its deep research mode for ChatGPT, making this powerful tool more accessible for free users while managing operational costs.

So the new lightweight deep research mode is now available to all chat GPT users, including free accounts. If you are on a free account and you're only can use five queries a month, which isn't a ton. So you got to make them count, but.

Paid users, which includes ChatGPT+, Teams, Enterprise, and Education, receive 25 deep research queries monthly, while pro users on that $200 a month plan get 250 queries a month.

With the advanced version still available, but capped before switching to the lightweight mode. So yeah, on the paid plans, you do get the full version, kind of the full weight version. And then once you hit that cap, you are switched over to the lightweight version, which is what the free users are using by default.

So the new lightweight version uses OpenAI's 04 mini model, not the 03 full model, which the kind of full version of ChatGPT uses. If you

If you don't follow models, that might be super confusing. You're like, wait, the paid more powerful version is 03, but the lightweight version is 04 mini? Yes. So it's run by 04 mini, not even 04 mini high. So yeah, kind of the, in terms of power for the thinking models, right? Depending on where you want to put 01 on this, but I would say it's 04 then 03.

or sorry, 04 Mini, 04 Mini High, then 03. And depending on what you think of 01 Pro, you know, that might fall somewhere, you know, first or second.

So OpenAI's goal is to reduce the heavy resource load caused by complex deep research queries, which require the model to analyze articles, papers, and extensive data to provide thorough answers. So this rollout begins immediately for free users with enterprise and education users gaining access shortly thereafter. So despite resources,

research tools like this are becoming common among AI chatbots with alternatives such as Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro deep research, which is really, really good, much better than their previous version. And Perplexity has a deep research. Grok has a deep and deeper search, whatever they want to

call it. So, you know, I wouldn't say the tools are a dime a dozen now, but I would still say at least for right now, it is OpenAI and Google that are kind of the premier versions of these deep research tools. You know, I'm curious, livestream audience, what do you all use to do your deep research? Right.

I, I, I previously did a deep research comparison, but this was on Google's old version. So I do think open AIs and Googles are kind of in a league of their own. Um, and I think this is one, like if you haven't used a deep research tool, right. I'd like some people are like, okay, how do I get started with generative AI? If you are brand new, I still think this is one of the best places to start. And I might have to do an updated episode since, uh, Google, uh, released, uh, or

updated their deep research tool with Gemini 2.5 Pro. Might be time to do an, you know, maybe, I don't know, maybe sometime in May we'll do that update. So live stream audience, let me know if you want to see that. All right. Speaking of Google, so Google is facing a potential breakup as the Department of Justice pushes to force the sale of Google's Chrome browser. So Google was declared a, uh,

a monopoly in the US search engine market by a federal judge, leading to a new phase where the Department of Justice is seeking remedies to break up its dominance with a focus on how this could reshape internet access for users worldwide. But it actually has to do with AI and you'll see why in a second.

The DOJ's top proposal is forcing Google to sell off Chrome, which currently holds about 66% of the global web browser market, arguing that Chrome's integration with Google search unfairly reinforces Google's monopoly. OpenAI has publicly expressed interest in buying Chrome if it is put up for sale, raising questions about whether shifting ownership to another tech giant would effectively address competition concerns.

Other DOJ proposals include requiring Google to share some user data with competitors to promote competition and in Google's exclusive default search engine deals like Google's $20 billion per year contract with Apple and unbundling Google and apps from Android devices to give users more choice.

Google obviously strongly opposes these suggestions by the DOJ, claiming they would harm consumers, hinting innovation, particularly in AI, and weaken the U.S. tech sector's global standing. The company argues users choose its services voluntarily and that forced changes would disrupt security and privacy protections tied to Chrome and its open source Chromium platform.

You know what? I agree with Google here. Google, like, let's just say you're anti-Google for whatever reason.

Google has their Chrome browser. They have an open sourced version of it called Chromium. So that's actually what Microsoft Edge uses. They use the same technology, right? So I don't necessarily agree with what the federal government is doing here, trying to break up. You know, I know that they're saying Google has a monopoly on search, but I don't know if this is the way to do it, forcing them to sell off

Google Chrome to a potential competitor because, okay, then what happens if one of their biggest competitors takes over Chrome? Then aren't they just going to be in essentially the exact same position that Google is in, right? You sell it to OpenAI, which is actually leading in the AI chatbot market and it's not

particularly close so then wouldn't that give open ai an unfair advantage probably so according to google's court documents uh right now their google gemini ai chatbot has 350 million monthly uh users

Well, ChatGPT has reached almost double that with 600 million monthly users. Although CEO Sam Altman hinted ChatGPT's weekly users might be as high as 1 billion. That's crazy. So it should be interesting to see what happens here with this Google case in front of the Department of Justice.

Speaking of Google's competitors, one of them in Microsoft has definitely updated its co-pilot platform, I would say in a big way. So Microsoft has launched its Microsoft 365 co-pilot Wave 2 Spring updates, introducing some new AI features aimed at helping professionals work smarter.

and faster. So we have covered a couple of them so far in the newsletter and on this very show, but this is kind of like the official bundling of all of these announcements we've seen over the past couple of weeks and some new ones. So you have the research and analyst AI agents that are now available through a new agent store. So yeah, Microsoft has a new agent

store, which enables advanced research and data analysis with open AI models and partner integrations like Jira and Miro. The skill discovery agent helps managers build skill based teams and assist employees in finding colleagues with needed expertise, improving collaboration, which about time, right?

About time that we get AI that helps humans find and relate to other humans, right? So it's good to see that element of AI, something that actually encourages and improves human to human, right? Because we always think of AI as kind of like, okay, well, now I'm just going to be chatting with a

bought more and not my coworkers. So that is pretty cool to see from Microsoft. Also, there's a new create feature that uses GPT-4.0 to generate brand compliant AI images for presentations and social media. Also, Copilot Notebooks lets users combine spreadsheets, documents, presentations, and notes into a searchable workspace that can be accessed via chat, streamlining project workflows.

Also, Copilot Search supports conversational queries across Microsoft 365 apps and third-party tools like Slack and Google Drive, though it doesn't search the web in real time. Also, you have memory now in Microsoft 365 Copilot that allows Copilot to remember user info more for personalized responses as well as some

new IT admin access. All right, so we actually have more on some new announcements from Microsoft here later in the show. All right, more big tech titans with some actually surprising news.

this time from Adobe. So Adobe has expanded its Firefly AI system with support for its competitors models with OpenAI and Google support. So Adobe announced it will add AI image generation models from OpenAI, Google, and others to its

Firefly app while also launching a mobile version. So Firefly users can now generate AI images using OpenAI's GPT image gen, Google's Imagine 3, as well as Google's video product VO2 and also Flux 1.1 Pro models, along with Adobe's updated in-house Firefly models.

So Adobe plans to bring in additional third-party models from companies like Pika, Ideogram, Luma, and Runway. That's a big one over the coming months.

So content created with third-party models can be moved into Adobe's other applications, such as Photoshop, using a shared credit system for payment. Adobe did not disclose, however, how revenue from third-party model usage will be split between itself and these providers.

So the company highlights that some users rely solely on Adobe's own Firefly models for legal safety in commercial projects, while others want to experiment with a broader range of AI tools. So Adobe's stock jumped up pretty sharply, 2% shortly after this announcement, indicating there's some strong market interest in Adobe expanding its AI platform access.

So, yeah, this one wasn't necessarily expecting this. We heard that Adobe would be adding some of these video models such as Runway, Pico Labs, etc., which I kind of understood. I did not expect them to integrate with Google and OpenAI. So good on them because.

I actually said this on the show a couple of weeks ago. I said between everything that you can now do inside Google AI Studio, which we're going to be talking about tomorrow, that's one of those five things that you didn't know Google AI Studio could do is how it's essentially like a built-in Photoshop and it's absolutely crazy. So between Google's kind of AI image generation capabilities and open AIs and even Canvas, which we're going to cover soon in the coming weeks, I'm like, I don't want to be Adobe, right? I don't want to be. But

Pretty interesting move here, kind of Adobe acknowledging, uh, the power and popularity of some of their competitors model. So instead of trying to go, uh, you know, uh, kind of blow for blow here, what they're doing is saying, okay, come on in, uh,

and use these models inside of our platform. So the monetization piece will be interesting, right? How is Adobe going to monetize off of people using the Google and OpenAI models? I'm sure we'll see reporting on that in the coming weeks.

All right, y'all, we have our newest case of AI gone bad. All right. And this one, the reason I'm including it in the AI news, number one, it's a cautionary tale for everyone else. But I do think this is going to become the new kind of story of, you know, when you're not using AI responsibly, right? Because we kind of had that

that early one from 2023 that a lawyer submitted some chat GPT hallucinations, essentially, in a courtroom and got sanctioned thereafter. And now the same thing has happened, but probably in a much more visible case. So

Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, is now facing some legal problems amid some AI-generated court filings. So Mike Lindell, the prominent and kind of infamous CEO of MyPillow, is embroiled in legal trouble after his attorneys submitted a court brief containing nearly 30

fabricated legal citations generated by AI, prompting a federal judge to consider disciplinary action against the lawyers. So Lindell's attorney admitted to drafting the brief manually, but then using AI to finalize it, resulting in false legal references that could undermine the integrity of the case and the legal profession. You know, I don't know, but I'm guessing his lawyer was probably using the free version of Chad GPT and probably didn't

necessarily know how to use it. Because if you're using, as an example, deep research or the O3 model, and you're doing at least minimum human in the loop, you're not going to get 30 fabricated legal citations. It is still wild to me that we are seeing these stories, but this is probably going to become the next big one. We've been talking about this, this, this

This one that happened in New York in 2023 for now more than two years. And I think this is probably going to be the new one that we're going to be talking about for years to come. So U.S. District Judge Nina Wang has given Lindell's lawyers until May 5th to explain why they should not face sanctions or lose their licenses, highlighting the risk of relying on AI with proper verification in legal work.

Also unrelated, but kind of related, MyPillow's business has sharply declined since Lindell aggressively promoted election fraud conspiracy theories following the 2020 U.S. presidential election, reportedly losing $100 million in revenue after being dropped by just about every single major retailer. So the fabricated citations undermine the validity of

Lindell's legal defense, potentially damaging his case and raising broader concerns about the ethical use of AI tools in law. Uh, good. Hey, great comment here. This is why I love having a live stream and having smart people on the show. Uh, Lisa on YouTube says I'm a lawyer and have the paid version of chat GPT. It still gets the law wrong. It sounds great, but lacks nuance and is technically incorrect. A lot of the time still. All right. That's a,

A good point. Yeah. And Marie say, guess Lindell's lawyers should have taken your PPP course before submitting their brief. Absolutely. It wouldn't have happened. Right. When people properly know how to use a right. Cause everyone just wants to one shot AI systems. Right. You know, they want to lazily work their way in, you know, put in one prompt, try to get like, you know, 10 pages of documents. If you know what you're doing, then that's a big if. Right. But if you know what you're doing, it is fantastic.

Large language models, let me just say this. Large language models rarely hallucinate. If number one, you know what you're doing and you have a knowledgeable human in the loop who's using the right model at the right time for the right purposes and is going through a basic prompt engineering process. Hallucinations, if I'm being honest, I use large language models depending on the day, anywhere from, I don't know, it varies, five to 12 hours sometimes.

I probably have a 0.05 hallucination rate. Very, very rare because I know what I'm doing, but most people don't and they're just looking for a quick shortcut. So yeah, another cautionary tale now that we'll probably be talking about for a while. All right. This one might sound kind of dorky in on the back end. And why are we talking about an API? But it's going to change, I think,

creative work. So OpenAI has launched their API access for their popular ChatGPT image generation model. So OpenAI has made its advanced image generation technology, which was previously only available inside its ChatGPT platform, accessible to developers through its API. This move comes after the tools

viral success in massive user engagement with over 130 million users creating more than 700 million images in just the first week.

So the image generation feature is powered by a multimodal AI model called GPT image one. I wish they named this differently. You know, like CEO Sam Altman said, you know, he put out something on Twitter about this and he said, image gen is available. And I read it as imagine as in Google's imagine, you know, photo. And I was like, wait, what, what happened here? We got to name these things better.

Calling it GPT image one and image gen, not the best way to refer to the models, just saying, but it is capable of producing images in multiple styles, following detailed instructions and rendering text within images.

Developers can generate multiple images simultaneously and adjust the quality and speed of generation, offering flexibility based on application needs. OpenAI has implemented the same safety measures in the API as in ChatGPT, including content moderation options that can be set to auto or low sensitivity, allowing developers some control over filtering strictness.

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I don't know, y'all. I'm feeling spicy. Should we do, probably couldn't do this for a couple of weeks, but should we do a show where we build essentially an app on this OpenAI image gen model? I never know if that's too dorky, right? Might have to use Cursor or Windsurf or something like that. But I think this is truly going to be like, you know how we had this chat GPT moment

it's not going to be as big as that right but this is going to be one of the biggest uh steps

forward for creativity that no one is going to notice, right? Because when a company releases an API, for the most part, it doesn't impact the everyday business leader. But y'all, I'm telling you now, there are going to be thousands in the coming months, thousands of new apps probably aimed at your business, at your vertical, that's going to help you create more engaging and better images. And as we've already seen,

From all the you know, and I'm not talking that the viral like Ghibli style or, you know, make me a Barbie right action figure. Like, I'm not talking about that. I am talking about incredibly accurate visuals, creating infographics, creating realistic photos with text adherence. Like it is really, really good.

All right. A couple people said, yeah, we should do that. McDonald's said, yes. Joe said, I would really love to see API image generation because I will use it. Derek just says, why not? All right. Maybe we will. You know, because I've also always thought about, okay,

Should we do like a show on cursor or windsurf or something like that? So maybe it'll be a two or three part series and we'll tackle, you know, maybe, you know, coding inside, you know, Chad, GBT and Gemini. And then we'll, you know, tackle a cursor in windsurf. And then we'll do, you know, creating an app or something like that. So I don't know. Either we'll do it.

you know, as a live show or maybe when and if we finally launch the community that's technically been ready for a year and a half. Maybe we'll do it inside of the community. So we'll see. All right. Next piece of AI news.

U.S. President Trump has signed an executive order to expand AI education in the U.S. So President Trump has signed an executive order to boost AI education across the U.S. by launching a national initiative focused on preparing students for careers in AI, one of the fastest growing technology fields.

So the order establishes the White House Task Force on AI Education, chaired by the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and including senior officials from Energy, Agriculture,

education, labor, and a special advisor on AI and cryptocurrency. So the initiative aims to provide early AI training in schools to help students develop the skills and confidence needed for the AI-assisted workforce.

Despite these goals, though, the administration has not yet clarified how we will implement the plan, especially following significant cuts to the Department of Education budget earlier this year. Right. Yeah. So it's like, oh, yeah, we're going to do all these things through the U.S. Department of Education. But it's like, wait, their budget is like essentially zero. And infamously, the head of the U.S. Department of Education repeatedly called

AI, artificial intelligence, in a hearing, A1, like the steak sauce, over and over. So I don't know. On one side, I'm like, this is great, right? Yes, we absolutely need AI literacy in schools. But at the other hand, I'm like, okay, it sounds like a plan right now. And they're like, oh, the US Department of Education is going to carry this out. But their budget has been absolutely thrashed.

And I don't know, at least me personally, after listening to that hearing where the head of the U.S. Department of Education continually called AI a one like the steak sauce. I don't know. I'm not super confident, although I am hopeful because.

We need this. So the task force will lead a presidential AI challenge designed to showcase achievements by students and educators, encouraging widespread AI adoption and promotes collaboration across government, academia, philanthropy,

philanthropy, philanthropy, I can't speak today, and industry to solve national challenges using AI. The executive order also directs the secretary of education to prioritize AI in teacher training grants and instructs the National Science Foundation to focus research efforts on AI education. So let me just say this. Finally,

Finally, this is a much needed first step to officially push AI education in the school system. If I'm being honest, this should have been done at least one or two years ago. So you have to tip your hats to the Trump administration for pushing this initiative forward. How and if it actually gets carried out, we'll see. Because I mean, like we've been talking about on this show, the US government has been straight up

slashed in terms of just the amount of humans working there, the amount of resources, right? We've seen all these reports that Elon Musk's Doge department is, you know, essentially trying to replace workers with AI, using AI apparently to spy on people to see if they're talking badly about the administration. So I'm hopeful that this will work because the U.S. education system, let me say this right now, is in huge,

It is in huge trouble because we've essentially been ignoring artificial intelligence for years, pretending it doesn't exist, banning it in classrooms across the U.S. when we should have been doing exactly this all along. A national effort to push AI literacy K through 12. Love it. I hope it happens. And we'll obviously be talking about this as we keep going. Yeah.

A lot of people saying, yeah, like Derek says, absolutely need it. Joe said the biggest issue with world leaders mandating education is lack of ethical governance. Yeah, you can say that just about any government worldwide, but especially here in the UI.

So Kyle says, I have been doing this kind of work for almost a year, a year and a half in Mississippi, and I'm working on a partnership with an AI education company to expand that. Love to see it.

James here joining us from the Twitter machine says AI moves too fast for school classrooms. Kids should have free access to online school. Yeah, that's a great point, right? Yeah. How are you going to develop curriculum? You know, anything, right? And this isn't a political statement. This is going back to for, I don't know, for forever. The government's slow. AI is fast. So educating, right? Pushing AI education into classrooms is extremely difficult, right?

I know, I don't even know if I've talked about this. Maybe I have. I started as an instructor at DePaul teaching generative AI. I update my syllabus every

multiple times a week, right? Because I want, you know, it's mid-career professionals taking this. It's not undergrads. So it's people, you know, in the middle of their career. But I want them to have the most up-to-date information. Like literally a couple of minutes before I start my course, I go through and update it.

Because there's things, even if I finish, you know, kind of my presentation or my course material, you know, the afternoon before, there's already things that have changed, right? So as an example, you know, our students are going to be using deep research tools. And hey, last week, I'm like, hey, right now you don't have access to this if you're on the free chat GPT plan. And well, now that's already changed. So it will be interesting to see how they update to the curriculum. But getting something is much better than nothing.

All right. Like I talked about earlier, more Microsoft news. So Microsoft has finally, for real, for real this time, launched their recall feature, at least for those with Copilot Plus PCs. So Microsoft is now rolling out its controversial recall, a feature that essentially screenshots almost everything users do on Copilot Plus PCs after nearly a year of delays and security improvements.

This launch comes alongside some other AI upgrades to Windows Search and a new click-to-do function. So Recall was initially planned to launch with Copilot Plus PCs in June of last year, but was delayed due to security concerns raised by researchers. So Microsoft spent 10 months enhancing Recall security, making it an opt-in feature

feature, whereas previously it was previewed as an opt out. So you were instantly opted in that set off everyone's alarm. So now it is an explicit opt in feature with encrypted data storage and default filtering of sensitive information. So a security expert that was quoted in one of these articles said,

Kevin Beaumont, who was the first one to flag recalls security risk recently tested the final version and reportedly acknowledged that Microsoft's serious efforts to secure it have paid off though. Some filtering glitches remain. So recall allows users to search their PC by, uh,

all these snapshots of all of their activity, helping find vague memories of content without needing exact file names, improving over traditional search. This is literally the reason I bought a Microsoft

plus PC, now I can finally set it up like five months after I bought it because I've been waiting for this feature. I don't care, right? I'm not big on data security, right? When I work with clients, I walk them through it. But I tell people like any information that you have that is publicly available online, it's already in large language models, right? It's funny sometimes I've consulted companies that are publicly traded

And they're like, oh, I don't want to put this information online. I'm like, yo, it's on your 10K. It's already in these large language models, right? It's on offline models, right? So a lot of times companies don't understand everything they put on the internet is already in large language models. Yes, there's obviously hordes of confidential sensitive information. You may not want to have recall screenshotting, but that is why it is opt-in now. And it has some new additional features, right?

to not collect some of that more sensitive information.

The feature does as well require a four digit pin via windows. Hello for access. Despite Microsoft's claim that biometric sign in would be mandatory. So that could still be coming. Also alongside recall windows search now supports natural language queries on copilot plus PCs. That's amazing. Apple's search is absolutely hot flaming garbage, right? Uh,

I hate Apple search. I can't find anything on my computer. Like it's like you literally have to have the exact same file name for it to ever come up. So I love now that you can just search with natural language, right? So you could say, and I did when I was at a Microsoft conference back in November, I saw some live demos of this and I talked to the team that was building it. So as an example, let's say you have a huge PDF and there's a picture of a tree on the inside.

And you're like, Oh, what is that PDF? I don't remember what it was called. Uh, I don't even remember the title of it, but I remember there's this big picture of a tree on the inside. You can literally type in tree and it's going to pop up. That is what kind of semantic searches extremely powerful for productivity, right? Uh,

I think that this is a small thing. You know, everyone's talking about recall because it was controversial, but I love the new, or at least the idea and the concept of this new natural language query on Copilot plus PCs. Also, there is the new click to do feature, which is activated by a Windows key plus a left mouse click, which offers quick actions like summarizing text or removing objects from images on screen.

Very cool, right? So that's essentially bringing in some of the best kind of time savers from different large language models that you can just do, right? If you have something open, you can click it and instantly summarize, right? You don't have to have a Chrome extension. You don't have to have a desktop AI system running. It's all just built in on this Edge AI if you have a Copilot Plus PC.

All right, our LinkedIn user said, "Truth, hate Apple search."

It's so bad. Why is it so, so bad? Why is Apple so far behind? Fred says, Jordan, it's time to take the dust off your new Windows PC. Oh man, my wife is always like, are you going to set this up now? And I'm always like, yes, yes, I absolutely am. And then, I don't know, something big happens in AI and I'm like, all right, well, now I got to spend eight hours, you know, testing out this new O3 or testing out this new Gemini 2.5. So if the AI news world went like a full week

without these huge uh announcements i would have time to set properly uh set up my new win windows copilot plus pc all right this uh someone's saying please share please share it when you set it up i want to see a live demo all right i'll see i'll i'll i'll see microsoft if we can you know set uh get get something special set up for you guys all right uh all right our next piece of ai news what's so strange is

I called this months before it happened. So Perplexity AI has launched a voice assistant on iOS and they are straight up going after Siri. Speaking of Apple doing a bad job on AI, Perplexity hard pivot AI.

coming for them. So Perplexity has launched a new update to their iOS that features a new voice assistant available now on iOS, and it offers features that even currently Siri struggles with, such as creating calendar events, reminders, playing music, and holding natural conversations.

So unlike Siri, which has delayed its kind of quote unquote smarter Siri until potentially the end of next year or even into 2027, Perplexity's voice assistant integrates directly with Apple's default apps like calendars, reminders,

mail and contacts, allowing it to perform tasks like drafting emails and adding calendar events more reliably. So Perplexity's assistants can maintain context in conversations without needing frequent follow-up questions, unlike Siri, providing concise responses and prompting users for further inquiries.

Uh, the voice mode in perplexity runs in the background, allowing users to switch apps without interrupting the conversation. It offers customizable settings such as muting the microphone, disabling transcripts and changing the assistant's voice. Perplexity also supports web-based actions by preparing tasks like booking restaurants, uh,

restaurant tables or opening Uber with the destination pre-filled, though it still requires users to manually complete the final steps themselves. Features Siri aims to offer but won't until minimum next year.

One thing that does work pretty consistently, Perplexity can launch and play music, both from Apple Music and YouTube videos quickly, although it has current limitations, such as difficulty sending text messages, even with contact access. So it says it can't. So let me just say this. It sounds great, right? Like, oh my gosh, we finally have a smart Siri. Doesn't work.

At least not consistently, right? So let me tackle this in two parts. I did call this, just saying. I called this back in our 2025 AI roadmap and prediction series. I said, perplexity is either going to get squashed or they're going to have to hard pivot.

And I would say if perplexity can get this right, this is their hard pivot. And I'm rooting for them. I've been extremely critical of perplexity over the last, I don't know, nine months because they have a hallucination problem.

It's pretty bad, right? And their biggest USP is gone, right? Their biggest kind of advantage a year ago, 18 months ago, was the ability to kind of quickly go out and go over 20 websites and to give you a somewhat accurate bullet point or summarization of a certain topic. It's not good anymore. It's not. It's not even a top three at that exact task.

So let me say that again, a year ago, perplexity was on the top in terms of being able to do this deep research, right? So number one, they technically created this category that now everyone else is blazing, but they're not, they don't have a top three product in that same category that they essentially helped create.

So like I said, you have open AI and Google in the top two spots. We'll see which one is actually ahead. Then I actually think you have Grok, right? And as problematic Grok can be, I still think it is better than perplexity. So I've been saying all along, perplexity is going to get their lunch money taken from them in this category that they helped create. So they have to pivot hard or they're going to get punished.

So I said they had to pivot. I said they had to innovate. So here we see it. And I love it. I love this move by perplexity. And like I said, I've been pretty harsh on perplexity because I think they've lost sight of what made them originally special and originally unique because hallucinations have been taking over their platform. And I think, like I said, they've been beat to the punch by this whole deep research thing.

But no one likes Apple's AI because it's not even there. Siri's not smart. So I'm rooting for them. I hope this works. But I tried it for when it first came out. I tried it for five or 10 minutes. I had it work once where it would check my calendar and then it drafted an email like, oh, you know, hey, what's on my calendar? I said, oh, you have a meeting at 1 p.m. with Bill. And I'm like, OK, email Bill and say I have to push the meeting back. And it did that. It did it once. Guess what? I've tried it.

five times since, and it hasn't worked. So, you know, sometimes it'll be like, oh, I can't access your calendar. And then you do it three more times than it can. Right. And then you're like, okay, you know, send an email to this person, you know, that's, that's all the calendar invite. And then they're like, oh, I don't have their contact information. It's like, yeah, you definitely do. And then I go through and I manually check my phone. I'm like, yes, it's there. So if

It's inconsistent, but it's extremely promising. So I'm rooting for Perplexity to improve this. And I did reach out to the Perplexity team, at least on social media, with some feedback. It seems like they took it in stride. So hopefully they'll improve it. All right.

Our last piece of AI news, OpenAI's rumored open model may be coming in June. So OpenAI could release its first quote unquote open language model since GPT-2, right? Yeah.

targeting an early summer launch. So according to reports from TechCrunch, OpenAI is developing a new open reasoning language model. That's another big piece that we hadn't had confirmed yet. So it will be a reasoner model and it could come in early summer, aiming to compete with other open models such as Meta's Lama and DeepSeek by topping benchmark tests.

So the model, however, will be text in and text out. So not multimodal by default and designed to run on high end consumer hardware with an option for developers to toggle its reasoning ability on or off similar to recent models from Anthropic.

OpenAI plans to use a highly permissive license with minimal restrictions on usage and commercialization, avoiding criticisms faced by models like Meta's Llama and Google's Gemma and DeepSeek. Yeah, so DeepSeek and Llama are not true open source. People don't understand that. And it doesn't look like this model from OpenAI will be either, but it could be open weights. So a big difference.

So, Meta's Llama models, which are probably the most popular open-esque models, have already reportedly amassed over a billion downloads, right? And I read about this, I read about the official report,

And then I also saw some discussion on Twitter that said, okay, this has to be an error, you know, because other people were sharing, hey, I have a model, you know, that I forked and it says it has way more downloads than it actually does. But if you do look at Meta's, you know, public stats, it does say more than a billion downloads.

So we'll see. This could be extremely popular. CEO Sam Altman has acknowledged that OpenAI needs a new open source strategy to compete with the deep seeks. Google's Microsoft is creating some open models. Meta has been a leader as well. But OpenAI, the open, quote unquote,

uh, kind of, uh, AI lab hasn't released anything remotely open since the chat GPT craze. So since GPT two, and even that model, when they released it, it was very, very slimmed down from what it was originally announced. So, uh,

Like I said, CEO Sam Altman has acknowledged that OpenAI needs a new open source strategy and plans thorough safety testing and red teaming of the new model before its release, including publishing a detailed model card and benchmarking and safety results. So if successful, OpenAI may follow with additional models, including smaller versions, potentially broadening access for developers and companies. Regardless,

The rest of the world wins, right? When the leader and it's not even close.

It's not even close. OpenAI is the leader in users, right? Because aside from what we told you, right, that came out through that Google lawsuit. So Google is making a heavy push to acquire more users. So right now, reportedly, according to their core documents, 350 million monthly users, where right now, ChatGPT is at 600 million monthly users.

And there's been rumors that they're even more for 600 billion or sorry, 1 billion weekly users. Whereas right now, Chachapiti has 600 million monthly. So yeah, the rumors are saying OpenAI since their new image gen that their stats are actually way higher. So we'll see in the end if OpenAI does release an open source model.

it changes not just all open source AI, but it also changes proprietary AI as well. Because what happens then is the labs that are building closed source models can essentially learn from what OpenAI is doing in their open, even if it is just an open weights model, right? You can essentially learn and kind of mimic and emulate what all these other labs are doing. So that's why everything from DeepSeq to Microsoft

to google to meta right uh releasing very impressive uh open models it actually helps proprietaries and it helps the whole system uh move forward uh so uh canal asked bro all right bro let me tell you he says bro what do you think about chatbot's capability after five years and ten years oh my gosh great question i have no clue i have no clue right

What we're getting right now, specifically with O3, and if you didn't watch our O3 episode, make sure you go do it. So that was episodes 509 and 510. What we have now with O3 is agentic. It's 100% agentic.

There's still some hallucination problems. Like you actually get like the more agentic and multi-tiered these models get, the more that you have to really keep an eye on them because there's been some pretty wild hallucination problems, I would say so far with O3, whereas I wasn't getting them as easily with 4.0. So it does require a little bit more prompt engineering, but where we're going to be with AI chatbots in five to 10 years.

I don't know, right? I do know that. I don't think we're going to be typing to them, right? I see them being on physical devices, right? I think whatever company, whether it's Meta, Google, or OpenAI is reportedly working on hardware. I do see it being in glasses, in our phones, right? I think finally that technology, I think that you could say if the most powerful model, whether you want to say Google Gemini 2.5 Pro,

Oh, oh three from open AI. We're going to have models way more powerful than that on edge, right? On our offline devices, we'll be able to download those models. So what we're able to do is I, I, I don't even know.

Scary. I'll say that. All right. So that's it for our AI news. But let me know which of these should we cover more this week. So like I said, we do have our show tomorrow. So make sure you tune in for Google's AI Studio. Five time-consuming tasks you didn't know you could automate. That's going to be a fun one. I'm going to show you some ways that I'm using Google's AI Studio

Every day, let me just say, I feel like I'm stealing when I use Google's AI Studio because the long context window, it's extremely powerful, extremely flexible. If you haven't used Google AI Studio before, I suggest you tune in. All right, but let's very quickly recap the AI news that matters for April 28th.

So OpenAI introduced a lightweight, deep research model, including access for free users and upping limits for paid users. Google has faced a potential breakup as the U.S. Department of Justice pushes to force

to force the sale of the Chrome browser, which is really going to impact the AI industry. Uh, Microsoft has enhanced, uh, their Microsoft 365 copilot with powerful AI features in their wave two spring release. Adobe Firefly has expanded, uh, it's Firefly AI system with support for competitors, namely open AI and Google's image and video models. Uh,

The MyPillow CEO is facing some legal trouble after his lawyer reportedly submitted more than 30 fabricated legal citations to a judge. Ouch. OpenAI has launched

API access for its popular chat GPT image generation model, which I think is gonna completely change the future of creative work. US President Trump has signed an executive order to expand AI education with a new national initiative and task force

Really hope that that changes the education scene here in the US. Microsoft has launched their recall feature finally after almost a year of delay for co-pilot plus PCs after an extensive security overhaul. Perplexity with a hard pivot going after

Siri with its new AI voice assistant on iOS on Apple devices in the app store. And then last but not least, some new updates on open AI set to release its first open language model since GPT-2 targeting in early summer launch, according to reports.

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