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Fri. 12/06 – Santa Sam Makes His First Delivery

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🗓️ 6 December 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Santa Sam has made his first delivery of the promised 12 days of launches from OpenAI. David Sacks is named the AI and Crypto Czar. Samsung’s entire UI is getting a radical overhaul. OpenAI is seemingly about to restructure everything. No more Surface Studios? And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions. Links: OpenAI is charging $200 a month for an exclusive version of its o1 ‘reasoning’ model (The Verge) Trump Names David Sacks as White House AI and Crypto Czar (Bloomberg) Here’s everything new Samsung’s Android 15 update, One UI 7, and the full changelog [Gallery] (9to5Google) OpenAI seeks to unlock investment by ditching ‘AGI’ clause with Microsoft (Financial Times) The Surface Studio is dead? — Microsoft ends production on $4,500 Surface Studio 2+ as stock dwindles (Windows Central) Hawk Tuah memecoin dumps 90% amid backlash over controversial launch (Cointelegraph) What Pat Gelsinger’s exit means for Intel and the US Chips Act (Financial Times) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: He Was Going to Save Intel. He Destroyed $150 Billion of Value Instead. (WSJ) Friend or Faux (The Verge) When a Telescope Is a National-Security Risk (The Atlantic) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the TechMe right home for Friday, December 6, 24. I'm Brian McCullough today.

0:08.8

Santa Sam has made his first delivery of the promised 12 days of launches from OpenAI.

0:13.6

David Sacks is named the AI and CryptoZar. Samsung's entire UI is getting a radical overhaul.

0:19.7

Open AI is seemingly about to restructure everything.

0:22.2

No more Surface Studios, question mark. And of course, the weekend long read suggestions.

0:26.8

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

0:32.5

Sam Altman is making good on his promise to be Santa. The first of what was promised to be 12 days of

0:37.6

announces came yesterday as OpenAI launched ChatGPT Pro, a $200 per month plan with unlimited

0:44.5

access to 01, GPT4O, and more, plus an 01 version that uses more compute for better responses.

0:51.9

Quoting The Verge. The company is releasing the full version of its

0:55.1

O1 model replacing O1 preview, which was initially released as a limited preview in September,

0:59.7

codenamed strawberry. The new model will be available for ChatGPT Plus and team users today,

1:05.1

while Enterprise and EDU users will have access to it starting next week. The company is also introducing ChatGPT

1:12.1

Pro, a new $200 monthly subscription tier that includes unlimited access to OpenAI, O1, GPT40, and

1:18.4

Advanced Voice Mode. It also includes a version of O1 exclusive to pro users that uses more compute

1:24.2

to provide the best possible answer to the hardest problems called 01 Pro mode.

1:28.9

The company will continue to offer a plus tier for $20 a month that includes early access to new features,

1:34.0

access to all the company's models, except the more powerful 01 version, and more.

1:38.6

The company said that compared to 01 preview, users can expect a faster, more powerful,

1:43.5

and more accurate model

1:44.6

that is better at coding and math. It can also provide reasoning responses to images. And OpenAI

1:50.5

promises it's been trained to be more concise, which should result in faster response times

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