Today we are catching up on the most important recent AI news and talking about the calm before the AGI storm.

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that demanded that I pull my head up from the parks and put it back into AI land did not

materialize. And yet, although there was not any one huge massive story like some new model coming out,

the last week did have many stories that fell along the themes of our episode from yesterday,

which was the

six questions shaping AI. Even more than that, though, I think when you take the sum total

of the news from the last week or so, there is a very distinct picture emerging. I'm calling it

the calm before the AGI storm. And what it feels like to me is that even in the quiet moments for AI, the big labs are all

jostling and positioning for a very different and fast-moving future. You almost have that feeling of

the electric charge that's in the air before a thunderstorm. So let's talk about the most important

stories from last week and why they all add up to something that is even bigger than they

might at first seem. As they are wont to do, OpenAI was in the news throughout the week.

And the company actually began the week on a pretty high note as they closed a record-breaking

fundraising round. Now, this is the round we've been hearing about for a while, with the company

having already announced the first 110 billion of the funding back in February,

you might remember that that round was sourced from Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank, but they've added an additional $12 billion to the round, this time from largely financial rather than strategic

investors, meaning that the total size of the round is $122 billion, closed at an $852 billion valuation.

Now, we had heard that the additional number was going

to be around $10 billion, so the fact that it was 12 is a good sign that investor demand is still

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