AI is speeding up… Is Project Stargate the $500 billion dollar path to AGI? OpenAI seems to think so. Plus, details on Deepseek’s R1 open-source reasoning & more AI news!

Anthropic’s Dario Amodei discusses the next few years of AI, OpenAI’s Operator is likely coming this week, Google’s new Gemini model (Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental 01-21) is VERY good, hands on with Hailuo’s Minimax Character Reference tool and an AI that can see five seconds into the future.