The week in AI at a glance
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The xAI (scale) – DeepSeek (efficiency) spectrum: AI labs will have to find the answer to a new question—what’s the optimal scale-efficiency trade-off?
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Grok 3 hates Elon Musk and Donald Trump: The funniest outcome of the Grok 3 saga is that the “anti-woke” AI criticized Elon Musk, revealing a left bias.
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Why Tyler Cowen thinks AI take-off is relatively slow: AI’s impact is slow because integrating it into society is limited by human bottlenecks.
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Microsoft prepares for OpenAI’s GPT-5 model: GPT-4.5 coming this week and GPT-5 coming in May.
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Microsoft’s CEO doesn’t believe in AGI: “The real benchmark is the world growing at 10%.”
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The essence of what I consider the ‘AI Skeptic Syndrome’: Excessive cynicism toward AI can hinder constructive dialogue and blind skeptics to the technology’s potential.
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Anthropic will soon launch Claude Sonnet 3.7: The company’s first explicit reasoning model.
The week in The Algorithmic Bridge
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(PAID) Weekly Top Picks #98: Anthropic’s “first” reasoning model / GPT-4.5 and GPT-5 / The end of AI safety / Jeff Dean and Noam Shazeer / DeepSeek and the power of antipathy
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(FREE) Grok 3: Another Win For The Bitter Lesson: Grok 3’s success exemplifies the enduring power of the Bitter Lesson: scaling massive compute clusters beats clever tweaks—even if you shouldn’t outright disregard those—as shown by xAI using its 100K H100 GPUs to rival OpenAI and DeepMind in 1.5 years. While DeepSeek proved ingenuity can compensate for fewer resources, its CEO acknowledged that more GPUs would yield better results. With post-training now as crucial as pre-training, only companies with the money and infrastructure to scale—like xAI, OpenAI, and Meta—will stay competitive.
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(FREE) While the West Hesitates China Marches Forward: While the US and Europe debate AI’s risks and regulations, China is rapidly integrating DeepSeek into government operations nationwide, demonstrating a proactive attitude that prioritizes efficiency over hesitation. Local governments in cities like Zhengzhou, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou are using DeepSeek to streamline decision-making, improve public services, and boost productivity, reflecting China’s cultural focus on efficiency and good attitude toward new technologies.
