What $200 of ChatGPT is really worth

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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AI and politics, politics and AI. That's the story of 2025. On this episode, The Verge's Kylie Robison joins the show to talk about ChatGPT's big new features, Operator and deep research, both of which promise to make the chatbot more useful and more autonomous. To access either one costs $200 a month — is it worth it? After that, The Verge's Liz Lopatto catches us up on the latest from Elon Musk and Doge, including why Musk is doing this thing, this way. Liz also makes the case that this isn't going to slow down anytime soon. Finally, Nilay Patel helps us answer a question from the Vergecast Hotline, and tells us how he felt about the Super Bowl's 4K stream. Further reading: OpenAI’s new Operator AI agent can do things on the web for you ChatGPT’s agent can now do deep research for you I tested ChatGPT’s deep research with the most misunderstood law on the internet Elon Musk’s rapid unscheduled disassembly of the US government DOGE wreaked havoc on the government in just one week Federal judge blocks DOGE from accessing sensitive Treasury records How Elon Musk’s Department of Energy access could pose a nuclear threat What we know about President Elon’s government takeover Email us at [email protected] or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of Chain of Thought Reasoning.
0:07.0	I'm your friend David Pierce.
0:08.2	It is the Monday morning after the Super Bowl, and I'm tired.
0:11.9	It was a truly terrible football game.
0:14.2	If you didn't watch, you really didn't miss anything.
0:17.7	Congrats to all the Eagles fans out there, I suppose.
0:20.3	But it was actually a pretty interesting tech evening.
0:23.2	There were AI commercials everywhere, including some that were like really reminiscent
0:27.9	of crypto commercials from a few years ago.
0:30.4	I have a lot of feelings about that.
0:31.6	A surprising number of people in my life are super into Gemini now, thanks to that
0:35.8	Google commercial.
0:37.3	I'll say this for Google.
0:38.7	Company has a lot of problems. Very good at making commercials. Just very, very, very good at making
0:44.0	commercials. Also, Kendrick Lamar did the halftime show and spawned a bunch of memes that I suspect
0:49.6	you're going to see forever for the rest of your life. To be streamed the Super Bowl for the first
0:54.1	time and held up
0:54.8	surprisingly well, just a lot of interesting technology going on. And then a really crappy football
0:59.2	game. Super Bowl 59, everybody. Anyway, that is mostly not what we're here to talk about. We're
1:04.6	going to talk a little bit about the Super Bowl on the Vergecast hotline at the very end. But before
1:08.8	we get to that, we're going to talk about AI,
1:14.9	and we're going to talk about Elon Musk. We're going to talk about all of what's going on with chat GPT and the operator feature and the deep research feature and the tasks feature. And there's
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