The AI Daily Brief (Formerly The AI Breakdown): Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis

Nathaniel Whittemore

A daily news analysis show on all things artificial intelligence. NLW looks at AI from multiple angles, from the explosion of creativity brought on by new tools like Midjourney and ChatGPT to the potential disruptions to work and industries as we know them to the great philosophical, ethical and practical questions of advanced general intelligence, alignment and x-risk.

  • 20 minutes 20 seconds
    17 Reflections on Enterprise AI in 2024

    2024 was the year where GenAI moved from exciting experiment to enterprise imperative. NLW reflects on 17 observations from enterprise AI from the year that was, and explores what they mean for the year to come.


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    24 December 2024, 5:17 pm
  • 12 minutes 45 seconds
    AGI for Christmas

    Explore OpenAI's latest achievements with O3, the reasoning model that sparked conversations about its proximity to AGI. This episode unpacks its groundbreaking performance on benchmarks like ARC, Codeforces, and math challenges while addressing the implications for jobs, coding, and society. Hear expert insights on whether O3 signals the dawn of AGI or a significant milestone in AI’s evolution.
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    24 December 2024, 3:27 am
  • 15 minutes 9 seconds
    AI's Future is Here Now

    A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-present-future-ais-impact-long


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    22 December 2024, 2:16 pm
  • 17 minutes 28 seconds
    2025 AI Battlelines: Agents, Reasoning, and World Models

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    21 December 2024, 11:25 am
  • 18 minutes 44 seconds
    Does Databricks' $10B Raise Point to an AI IPO Boom?

    Databricks raises a record-breaking $10 billion in its latest funding round, pushing its valuation to $62 billion. This round, the largest in venture history, highlights a potential AI IPO boom. Explore what this means for the AI market, competitors like OpenAI, and the broader tech industry.
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    20 December 2024, 1:30 am
  • 13 minutes 46 seconds
    5 Use Cases for Veo 2

    Google has responded to Sora with their own updated video model Veo 2, and it's getting rave reviews. NLW explores a number of use cases, from social media to advertising to b-roll to establishing shots and beyond.

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    18 December 2024, 2:04 am
  • 15 minutes 35 seconds
    Ilya Sutskever Calls Peak Data and the End of Pretraining

    At a recent conference appearance, SSI founder (and former OpenAI leader) Ilya Sutskever claimed that we had reached peak data and that the era of pre-training as a scaling method had come to a close. NLW explores the implications. Plus, NotebookLM releases an enterprise edition.


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    17 December 2024, 1:31 am
  • 17 minutes 34 seconds
    20 Uses (or Not) for AI

    How to actually get value out of AI at work right now. A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/15-times-to-use-ai-and-5-not-to

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    15 December 2024, 1:42 pm
  • 14 minutes 44 seconds
    Vision and Voice Are Now LLM Table Stakes

    Between Gemini 2.0 and the latest announcement from OpenAI's 12 Days of Shipmas, LLMs with vision and voice integration seem to officially be the norm. Plus NLW covers the other headline stories from the past few days.

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    14 December 2024, 12:22 pm
  • 15 minutes 41 seconds
    With Gemini 2.0, is Google So Back Baby?

    NLW explores the latest announcements from Google, including Gemini 2.0, a set of new agents, and why the company is heading into 2025 much stronger than they came into 2024.

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    13 December 2024, 7:36 pm
  • 15 minutes 12 seconds
    AI Agents and the Transforming Software Business Model

    AI agents are reshaping the software business model, challenging traditional SaaS pricing with approaches like outcome-based and usage-based models. This video explores recent developments from OpenAI and startups like Sierra, analyzing the potential for AI agents to replace labor and how enterprises might value these tools. As companies experiment with pricing strategies, the future of software economics is in flux.
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    12 December 2024, 1:21 am
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