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Today on the AI Daily Brief Some big questions around the next phase of AI And whether what we now call AI is actually multiple things before that in the headlines. Op AI joins the IPO filing party. AI Dailyrief aaily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI All right, friends, quick announcements before we dive in First of all, thank you to today's sponsors, KPMG, Robots and Pencils, Zencoder, and Out Systems. To get an ad free version of the show go to patreon. com slash AI Daily brief or you can subscribe on Apple podcasts Remember, it is just three dollars a month for ad free And if you want to learn more about sponsoring the show, send us a note at sponsors at Ai dailybrief. i. Also a big thank you to everyone who has filled out our AIDB for Teams survey. One of the things that's becoming very clear is that something that people are really looking for is an easier way to share specific nuggets from the episodes. We've got a couple new ideas for that coming up potentially with a brand new web page So keep your eyes peeled for that over the next couple of weeks For now though Let's jump into the headlines. You can absolutely feel things heating up right now. We'll have some dimensions of that in our discussion in our main episode, But even throughout the headlines, the stakes are just getting raised, markets are firing up, energy is high. The whole AI space is just vibrating on a different level One example of that, OpAI has officially thrown their hat in the ring and filed to go public The company filed their IPO paperwork confidentially on Monday. Now, as I mentioned after the anthropic filing last week, confidential filing is the industry standard and certainly doesn't carry any significant implications. All it really means is that we don't get to look at the company's financials until much later in the process. We also won't know the valuation sought by openpen AI until much closer to the listing. And while the press is casting this as an all out race between openen AI and Anthropic The quotes don't suggest a lot of urgency from the companies themselves. When asked about the IPO last week, Anthropic presresident Nyela Amade simply stated that the filing quote, gives us the option to potentially go public after the SEC review In an next post on Monday, OpenAI said We have not decided on timing yet. It may be a while because there are things we want to do that are likely easier as a private company, but it's a complicated set of trade offffs, and this gives us the option to go public sooner if that ends up being best. Now, if you did decide that that was all just bluster and these companies were in fact in an all out race, judging from the speed of the SpaceX IPO, you're probably looking at September as the earliest reasonable possibility. But who knows when it comes to AI A lot of norms are getting thrown out the window Now, broadly speaking, I would say that there are two categories of takes when it comes to this IPO slate. The first is that the sequencing matters. ChubbyonX writes, going first could matter. The first major frontier AI IPO may define public market expectations for the entire sector, while later entrs risk being judged against that benchmark And while that's certainly true, I find myself much more in the camp shared by Lasan onx who writes I have a prediction for Anthropic, open AI, and SpaceX IPO. they will all go vertical Or as the Kopisi letter put it, we're about to witness the most incredible IPO run in history As the SpaceX IPO approaches, Elon Musk has unveiled further plans for putting datac centers in space. In a half hour long video posted to EXn Monday, Musk revealed a prototype designed for the datacenter satellites. Each satellite will be designed to handle around one hundred fifty kilowatts of AI compute, roughly equivalent to a single rack of Nvidia Blackwells. Musk said during the presentation An AI satellite is essentially a lot of solar cells, a radiator, and you still need some laser links, but you don't have all of the super complex antennas that you have on a Starlink satellite twoo, the easier one to design for is the AI satellite. He later added, Part of what I want to convey here is that there's not some magic that's necessary that doesn't exist for AI satellites. A lot of this technology we've already made for Starlink V three satellites. We don't think this is a super hard problem compared to things we already do Now, when many people first heard Elon start to talk about data center in space, there was a natural knee jerk skepticism. And for people that dug in a little bit more, even outside of any pree existing biases around Elon, there did seem to be some big, possibly insurmountable problems. Chief among them was heat dissipation, as the lack of atmosphere makes passive cooling impossible. We're now getting some details and it sounds like the SpaceX satellites will angle a thin edge towards the sun to minimize solar heating and use radiation panels to expel heat from the GPUs. The system is similar to the cooling already in use on Starlink satellites Overall, the whole concept is starting to get a lot more credible in recent months, with Google reportedly in talks to partner with SpaceX for their own data center satellites. In other words, while there are still difficult engineering challenges, Musk is increasingly presenting a feasible pathway His presentation also discussed the manufacturing side of the project. SpaceX plans to expand their starling facility to reach eleven million square feet, which would be around the same footprint as the Tesla Gigafactory in Austin. The facility dubbed Gigasat will be used to manufacture the gigantic solar panels that are required to power these satellites. Elon also discussed the scale and time horizon for the project. He said that SpaceX will try to achieve an annualized rate of putting one gigawatt of capacity in space by the end of twenty twenty seven. That would require almost seven thousand satellite launches a year if they remain at one hundred fifty kilowatts each. After twenty twenty seven, Musk said that SpaceX will attempt to scale by an order of magnitude each year, eventually reaching a terawatt of capacity. Now that is a more ambitious schedule than disclosed in the IPO filing, and even Elon himself has acknowledged that it's all a bit speculative. He commented that the plans should be taken with a grain of salt. Still, the thesis of putting data centers in space is increasingly central to the SpaceX public listing. In their perspective, SpaceX claimed that space data centers could be a twenty three trillion dollars market which will, to some investors still sound like he's saying that their market cap potential is approximately a billion dollars, is getting a little bit more credible by the week Dataceter skeptic and hedgefundy, David Or kind of represents the current smartest guy in the room thinking, in that while previously he was ranting about how infasible this was, he's starting to come around not to the idea that it's obviously going to work, but that now at least Elon is making a bunch of verifiable claims and getting into the details on how it's supposed to work, making it way more tangible and seemingly a lot more real or wrote If SpaceX has an eighty percent gross margin on launches, they're a lot closer than I thought for data centers in space. It's still far off, but not wildly far off. I guess if Starship can bring this down another eighty percent, it could be feasible. I'm biased to thinking this kind of thing is BS and it usually is, but maybe keeping an open mind here is right Meanwhile, for the SpaceX IPO itself, demand seems red hot. Sources told Reuters that stock is roughly two times oversubscribed, with one hundred fifty billion dollars worth of orders for seventy five billionars in available stocks Now this level of the demand wouldn't necessarily be out of the ordinary for a regular frothy IPO. What makes it impressive is the sheer magnitude given that this is the largest IPO in history One hedge fund manager said that there's career risk in abstaining from the sale, commenting, Lots of people will have to explain why they don't own it rather than justifying a decision to buy it Reports are circulating that brokers being told to spread allocations widely across retail investors. The IPO has an unusually high thirty percent allocation to retail, and according to the chatter, brokers are being forced to ensure that small accounts still get their fair share. Analyst Phil Trubyote Elon is serious when he said retail will get allocations In addition, some brokerages are telling traders that they need to hold on to their shares for thirty days or be banned from buying other IPOs later this year. Trades are being told to fund their accounts by the Wednesday close, implying that the first day of trading is indeed expected on Friday staying on infrastructure for a minute, chipmakers are turning to Intel as supply chain issues worsen. The information reports that both Google and NVvidia are quietly adding Intel as a backup manufacturer for their AI chips. Until now, both companies had used TSMC as their single supplier for high end chips. But of course, recently, TSMC's order book has ballooned, leading to a multiye waiting list. During a call with investors last week TSMC CEO CCWA, warned that even with new fabs coming online in Arizona and Thaipeay, it'll be a long time before they can meet full customer demand. That kind of leaves Intel as the only viable alternative. Google has reportedly placed an order for three million TPUs to be manufactured in twenty twenty eight after being satisfied with test units. That's around half of the units Google expects to deliver across twenty seven and twenty eight according to estimates from Morgan Stanley Also, the first major chip order for Intel during the AI era. NvidDia, meanwhile is said to still be in the testing phase. Sources said that they're currently testing Intel equipment for producing the next generation Fynman chip set for production in twenty twenty eight. Now, this is all big news for Intel who have struggled for years to catch up on AI chip manufacturing. After taking control of the company last year, new CEO Lip Butin announced Intel would double down on contract manufacturing for other chip makers in House AI Chip family called Goti having been a sales disaster. And while of course, Intel have made big strides in their reclamation project, this story really speaks to how severe chip supply chain issues are becoming. There's no hint of dissatisfaction with TSMC here or even a desire for redundancy. This appears to be purely about TSMC being completely out of spare capacity for the foreseeable future. Now investors had already been buying the Intel redemption arc almost tripling the stock price in April before entering a downturn in May, and this news broke the month long downtrend with the stock jumping by eleven percent on Monday. By the way, one more small one for my market folks out there, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan are looking at trading comppute Futures as a way to hedge their dataenter exposure. Compute Futures are expected to launch later this year and will allow traders to bet on the future price of GPU rentals in a similar way to other commodities like oil or wheat. The information reports that Goldman and JP Morgan are exploring the use of this nascent market as a way to hedge against the risk of data center overbuilding And while many might read the introduction of compute futures as yet another speculative market for clients that are heavily invested in the data center buildout, there's currently no direct way to hedge that risk, meaning that this sort of compute market can actually be useful outside of just speculation Lastly today, it is not just in markets that we feel things heating up, Washington is taking another look at AI regulation with multiple agendas heading to Congress. Axios reports that the White House is negotiating federal preemption of state AI laws in exchange for supporting other key tech priorities in an upcoming bill Preemption was part of the bipartisan bill proposed by repepentatives Ober Nolty and Trehan last week, but it seems a Senate version is also in the works. AxiO said negotiations are currently being led by Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn, Blackburn' Scuttled AI legislation last summer over the preemption issue, pointing to concerns about losing child and copyright protections that are already legislated in various states This time around, Blackburn is looking to bundle those issues into a federal regulatory package. Her office said Senator Blackburn is spearheading the negotiation with the White House to finalize legislative text of an AI preemption package that includes protection for kids, creators and communities through the Senate version of the Kids Online Safety Act, the No Fakes Act, and age verification requirements. They also added that child safety would receive a carveout from preemption. Sources told Axios that leading AI labs would be attending a White House meeting this week to discuss appropriate benchmarking for government veting pursuant to the recent AI executive order. Now this could be the actual purpose for the meeting President Trump discussed last week in the context of AI companies seeding shares to a public wealth fund. Separately, Democrat Senator Adam Schififft has introduced a bill to restrict the Pentagon's AI use. The bill would require the Pentagon to keep a human in the loop for autonomous weaponry and protect against the use of AI for domestic surveillance The bill then essentially legislates anthropics redlines, which became the subject of their fallout with the Pentagon back in March. A similar bill was put forward recently by Senators Kelly, Gillibrand and Slotkin, but Schiff is pushing to have his bill attached to the M pass defefense Funding bill, expected to come to a vote later this month. More broadly, these particular restrictions seem to be a core pillar of the AI platform for centrist Democrats heading into midterms and beyond Schiff told the Wall Street Journal, We're no longer anticipating these impacts, they're here. AI could very well be the dominant issue for the next presidential election. Now, Schiff's bill is of course, just one of a myriad of proposals coming from the Democrat side of Congress. Bernie Sanders recently presented his fifty percent tax on AI equity as legislation, while others are pushing for other forms of AI taxation. Michigan Senate candidate Larie McMorrow who is running on a token tax applied across the economy said It feels like we are hitting a cultural tipping point. For the AI companies, meanwhile, it seems like regulation is inevitable, spurring far more engagement from lobbyists. OpenAI's chief Globalffairs offfficer Chrystisal Hane said, We think we're going to need to even do more as we go forward given the speed that this is moving. Now as you sit back and look at all of this, you could be forgiven for thinking that we are on the precipice of yet another phase you might say in AI Interestingly enough, that's exactly what OenAI has recently said, and that is the subject that we turn to in our main episode One of the most important AI questions right now isn't who's using AI, It's who's using it well KPMG and the University of Texas at Austin just analyzed one point four million real workplace AI interactions and found something surprising. The highest impact users aren't better prompt engineers. they treat AI like a reasoning partner They frame problems, guide thinking, iterate, and push for better answers. 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Today we're talking open AI's blog post in which they declare something of a new phase in AI Part of why this is interesting to look at is that it's very clear that we're living through a major transition in AI On a micro level, we're in our second sort of transition in a couple months, the first, of course being the agentic transition that happened between November of last year and January of this year, and the second being the shift from the token subsidy era, where we were consuming a lot more tokens than we were paying for, to the token shortage era, where the physical realities of the limits of the compute that we have available to serve means that state of the art AI especially is getting more expensive Now when you take a farurther step back, obviously, these are parts of the same transition. and really I think When the history books are written, the reason that this period feels so intense and immense is that it is the second massive transition in generative AI following the launch of Chat GBT itself. Now I would argue, when it comes to the ultimate shape of AI in society, this aentic transition and all the consequent economic changes that come with it is likely to be even more significant than the first. So much so, that part of what I'm wondering today, as I look at the open AI blog post, contrasted with the non event that was Apple's Si announcements at WWDC, if there is actually a fairly fundamental break occurring in what we now lump together as AI First of all Let's read some excerpts from the piece that they published as it's not particularly long The piece is called buuilt to benefit everyveryone, our plan. The first part of it is sort of your standard historical analogy, This is bigig sort of rhetoric Every few generations they start, a new technology changes everything. Imagine electricity reaching a rural American town in the nineteen twenties. Before power lines arrived, daily life was shaped by physical limits, hauling water, washing clothes by hands, preserving food with ice, and ending much of the day when the sun went down Electricity did not transform every household overnight, and many of its benefits reached people unevenly. But as access spread, ordinary life changed. Light at night extended the day. Electric pumps, appliances, and refrigeration reduced some of the hardest daily work. Radios brought news, music and connection from hundreds of miles away into homes and community spaces. The first promise of electricity was practical, but its deeper impact came from the new possibilities it opened up as more people use it. At time, a lot of new possibilities emerged, with machines and computers greatly accelerating progress in medicine, engineering in many other fields. By the end of the twentieth century, the average lifespan had increased by over twenty years, and the median inflation adjusted income tripled or so These gains were driven in no small part due to the advances in healthcare, sanitation, and living standards, many of which were enabled or accelerated by widespread electrification and related technological progress. This, they argue, is happening again with AI. AI, they write will soon be capable of extraordinary things. But the point is not the technology by itself, the point is what people can do with it. The positive impacts, however, they write, are not a foregone conclusion or as they put it, the future will not happen automatically. They do the standard, there's going to be a lot of great things, but also clear out about the risks kind of paragraphs. With one interesting novel tweak on that theme, where you see the continued backing up from the narrative of full knowledge worker replacement when they write entntirely automating everything is not the future we want. It would be unfulfilling and it would be dangerous. AI should help people pursue their goals not become untethered from them As AI systems become more capable, the human role becomes more important, setting direction, making trade offs, applying judgment, and bringing values, taste, care, and responsibility to work. Now as a little aside, the way that I feel about open AI finally coming to this rhetoric and this idea that AI in fact will not be used just to replace people, but instead to unlock their dreams in ways that were never imagined before I'm reminded of a scene in the West Wing, where press seecretary CJ. Craig reveals to her communications colleague, Sam Seaborn that she doesn't understand the census, even though she's been acting as she does for weeks. After a little pause, Sam Seaborn, played famously by Rob Low, says, I tell you what. Let's forget the fact that you're coming a little late to the party and embrace the fact that you showed up at all. In any case, from that new rhetorical shift, they move into what is the actual substance of the post. They write We believe that AI, doing AI research, will become the determining factor of the pace of progress within the next few years. Faster technical progress makes human judgment and public coordination more important, not less. The future should be shaped by people, institutions, and societies, not only the companies building the most capable systems. Indeed, reflecting the broader conversations of the moment They write that they expect national and global coordination to become more important, arguing that they have quote, long believed there should ultimately be an international organization that helps coordinate leading AI efforts to reduce catastrophic risk. And then we come to the core internal facing part of the post. Open AI's three current main goals. Their first goal is build an automated AI researcher An AI system they write that can accelerate and increasingly automate the research process itself while remaining sterable, accountable, and connected to people. Our internal belief is that by March of twenty twenty eight, we may have a significant fraction of our research being done by AI systems in tandem with our own researchers. To make sufficient progress on alignment, we believe we will need AIs to iterate alongside us This will help us navigate the transition to the post AGI world so that we collectively decide the path towards the future. Goal two, accelerate the economy by accelerating scientific progress, productivity, and economic growth while working to ensure the gains are widely shared. Everyone should have an opportunity for a meaningful share in the prosperity AI creates. Three, give everyone on Earth a personal AGI, empowering them to benefit from one of humanity's most transformative technologies in whatever way they choose. And thus they say, to be able to deliver on this, we are entering the third phase of openp AI. The first phase of open AI was about doing research toward AGI. The second phase began when our research became relevant to the real world and we became a product company deploying our systems, learning from how people use them, and making continued progress toward AGI that is safe and align with our mission Now they declare we are entering the third phase. The economy is beginning to reshape around AI. The central question now is how to make advanced AI abundant, affordable, safe, useful, and easy enough for every person and organization to benefit from it. Frontier capability is only part of the job A bigger task is turning that capability into tools people can actually use to thrive. Above all, we believe a broad distribution of power will help lead to a better future. Human history shows that concentrated power creates fragility, while widely shared power makes societies more resilient, adaptable, and free. A good AI future cannot be one where a small number of institutions control most of the capability and most of the upsides It should be a future where many people, companies, communities, and countries can build, benefit and hold power. We believe this transformation should belong to everyone So that's the post. And when it comes to interpretations and the question of why this was released now, for many It was impossible to separate from their confidential IPO filing, which happened earlier in the day, and which we just talked about in the headlines part of the episode. Genio writes, Sam Altman just called OpenAI's three phase plan built to benefit everyone on the same day they filed their S one. headadlines, altruistic mission statement. it isn't. This isn't a roadmap, it's market segmentation. Consumers buy the Dream, investors buy the TAM, regulators byy the public benefit Corporation. There are infinite versions of this take, and all I will say is that for the next four months or so Until the IPO's foranthropic and open AI are both in the rear view, you're going to have people frankly reasonably argue that every single thing that they're doing is in some way, shape or form about getting the optimal outcome out of that IPO Now for others, the big emotional takeaway was certainly the idea of power distribution. Tenang Yan writes TLDR, open AI's phhase three is that AI should be for everyone, not concentrated in a few hands Stanford Prof Andy Hall writs concentration of power seems to be the central political economy question of AGI. And certainly given the rising discourse around Bernie and sovereign wealth funds and Trump taking a cut The discussion, at least, around how to ensure AI benefits everyone is reaching a crescendo in a way that it never has before. Now for others, this is all about reading the tea leaves of what's going on behind the scenes and a speculation that the labs now think that we're beyond some event horizon based on things they've seen that aren't available to the public. Chubby writes sounds like we're now taking the final steps towards AGI and post AGI Prins right Conspiracy theory time, Open AI just announced that we're entering the third phase. Why today? Why now? Blog post was co authored by Sam Altman and Jacob Pachaki, who we know is in charge of automating AI R and D at OpenAI. You may remember that the live stream where OpenAI's plans to automate AI R and D were announced was also Sam and Jacob. No mention of the goal to produce an intern anywhere in the blog post The goal is now just the automated AI researcher by march twenty twenty eight. All weekend long, meananwhile, the Codex team posted about loops. Sam Altman posted about recursive loops last night. Do they have it? And by it, I think Prinz is referring to some version of recursive self improvement or RSI Lasson argues no, of course not, but they could have a much larger and stronger model Now, the other event that happened yesterday that a couple of years ago would have been almost dead on assured to be the lead story of the main episode. was Apple's WWDC event, where they announced that Siri AI was finally coming Now you might remember that we first started hearing about the new quote unquote Si AI back in twenty twenty four when Apple launched in huge air quotes, Apple intntelligence. The Vverge writes The whole intelligence bit of the Siri redesign was coming soon, Apple promised. It didn't. In fact, its promotion around Apple Intelligence was so misleading that the company is settling a class action lawsuit and has toay iPhone owners for the features it never shipped But now the new Siri is finally here, and basically it does the things that it was supposed to do the last time around. It can summarize your messages, add an event to your calendar, search the web. Basically, for the first time, Siri promises to do more than just set a timer incorrectly And for some observers, especially those outside of the hyperfoccused AI discourse, this was just enough to be f Bloomberg example watcher Mark German wrote While there was nothing revolutionary, Apple just rebooted the foundations of its platform with functional AI, a working seri, and improved performance. This is critical ahead of the next three years of blockbuster new devices that run these operating systems. The right move or as Samsong's David Lee put it id didn't try to win the game with one possession went down by ten IDC analyst Franis Geronomo said in a note Apple does not need to win AI by having the biggest model or the loudest demo. It needs to make AI trusted, useful, and invisible across the ecosystem And then of course, on the flip side, people who haveve spent the last six months playing with OpenClaw and becoming codex and Clawud code power users, look at this and are just absolutely baffled. Teneverse writes New Sir or Fine looks like it will be a legit useful upgrade and I'll make use of agentic search over my own text messages. Upgraded voice transcription might kill a few startups, but it's also just exactly the minimal stuff they should have launched in twenty twenty four. Signal put it more bluntly, SirI is basically ChatGPT one point zero that has no impact on our work. Now on top of that, you also got some articles trying to argue why sneakily Apple is actually going to disrupt Chat GBT. Michael Malowz wrote, Apple just killed paying for AI In it, he basically argues that Siri in your phone while it isn't going to be managing an agent swarm or refactoring your Kobal code base over the course of a week, can probably order you a burrito about as well as Opus or GPT five five can, and for a lot of people, that's all that's going to matter And here's what hits me like a truck I wonder if we have officially hit the point We're considering consumer AI, I either day in, day out, turning to a chatbot to help answer a question or find some information, as part and parcel of the same thing as work AI, where we are literally managing fleets of new synthetic employees that can unlock capabilities that were never possible for us before is just fundamentally wrong Now, nominally all of these platforms have all of these features You can use Claudd AI, you can use Clad code. You can use Chat GBT, you can use Codex. And with Gemini and Google, it's even blurrier. And yet in some ways, I think this might have distracted us from the fact that we might be at more of a fork than these companies are willing to admit. It is so clear watching Open AI's moves that the seat based revenue of Chat GBT is so ridiculously inconsequential compared to the API usage of Codex, that I wonder if on some level Chat GPT itself is becoming a distraction. Now, certainly they're giving some interesting signals to that effect, talking about blending the Chat GBT in Codex apps, building a super apppp, and yet still most of the discourse is talking about the super app as though it's a thing for consumers. Now I think that there's no way Even if openen AI has determined that Chat GBT is kind of a distraction, and one of those side quests that FiGi Simo said that they shouldn't be spending their time on, that they'd actually make moves to kill it. First of all, they're going to see it forever as a great top of funnel for getting people into the Codex ecosystem. But second, it is a massive differentiator between them and anthropic as they go public, and they're going to need to highlight those differences when it comes to the public markets But I genuinely wonder if they actually care about consumer AI anymore evenven the way they're talking about AI benefiting everyone in this blog post. It's one about the financial and deterministic and control benefits, benefits and participation, and two, by saying that we're giving everyone a personal AGI, almost dragging them into those work related use cases as opposed to more traditional consumer AI stuff I sort of wonder, what it would change if we were allowed to care less about consumer AI? Would it mean less shoving it down people's throats? withith every app, including non work apps racing to add their AI features? Would the fact that this was a work technology, not an all encompassing consumer meme actually make people less angry? I don't know, but it's interesting to think about I would not go so far as to say that consumer AI has failed. One need only look at how totally embedded in people's lives chatbots like ChatGBT have already become to know that that's not the case. But at the same time, it is also clear that there is no comparison between that and the sheer tonage of impact that agentic work related AI and the consequent business models and infrastructure are going to have on the face of society. And maybe it's time we start talking about them as separate things. Anyway, if the goal of Oen AI's peieace was to get people talking, mission accomplished, for now that's going to do it for today's AI Daily brief. Appreciate you listening, for watching, as always, until next time, Peace