Too Many AI Companies, Amazon's Alexa Upgrade Awaits, RIP Humane Pin

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) Satya Nadella's criticism of AI benchmark hacking 2) Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's new Thinking Machines Lab startup 3) There are too many AI startups 4) Why foundation models have commoditized 5) Did Google 'DeepSeek' itself? 6) Grok3 arrives 7) How do you evaluate whether models are good? 8) Grok3 at the top of Chatbot arena 9) Benedict Evans on Deep Research 10) Does using AI tools make our brains atrophy? 11) Amazon's incoming Alexa upgrade 12) Actually, voice AI helps during marital disputes 13) RIP Humane Pin Join the Big Technology Discord here: https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/lets-talk-deepseek-ai-etc-on-big

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0:00.0	There are probably way too many AI companies, but why not?
0:03.8	Let's add another.
0:05.0	Humans criticize open AI's deep research.
0:08.1	Amazon has an Alexa upgrade on the way, and the humane pit is dead.
0:12.8	Off to HP to check your toner.
0:15.0	That's coming up right after this.
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0:57.2	to big technology podcast friday edition when we break down the news in our traditional cool-headed
1:01.1	and nuanced format we have a wild show for you today because there's a whole lot of news
1:05.1	in the world of artificial intelligence and the tech world in general we got a new ai company
1:10.1	it is from the X
1:11.5	Open AI CTO, Muradi. We also have new models from GROC. We have big news from Microsoft,
1:18.2	which we're going to touch that right at the top. And we'll look at the death of the humane pin.
1:22.9	Oh, by the way, there's also an Amazon Alexa upgrade coming. Joining us, as always, to talk about it on Fridays is Ron John Roy of Margins.
1:30.0	Ron John, great to see you.
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