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AGI in 2025? Plus, OpenAI's Agents, NVIDIA's AI World Model & More AI News

AI For Humans: Making Artificial Intelligence Fun & Practical

Release Date: 01/09/2025

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AI For Humans: Making Artificial Intelligence Fun & Practical

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AGI is coming in 2025 or at least that’s what OpenAI’s Sam Altman thinks. Plus, huge announcements from NVIDIA at CES & hands on with Google’s VEO 2.

AND OpenAI’s Operator (aka their AI Agents) might come soon, DeekSeek V3 is pretty darn good, Meta makes a big mistake with their AI personalities, Minimax’s new subject reference tool, METAGENE-1 might help us stave off disease, and all the robot vaccum news you could ever want.

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Sam Altman Blog Post:

https://blog.samaltman.com/reflections

Head of OAI “Mission Alignment” warns to take AGI seriously: https://x.com/jachiam0/status/1875790261722477025

OpenAI Agents Launching This Month?

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/why-openai-is-taking-so-long-to-launch-agents?rc=c3oojq

Satya Nadella says AI scaling laws are “Moore’s Law at work again”

https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1876738332798951592

Derek Thompson Plain English

https://www.theringer.com/podcasts/plain-english-with-derek-thompson/2025/01/07/the-big-2025-economy-forecast-ai-and-big-tech-nuclears-renaissance-trump-vs-china-and-whats-eating-europe

Digits: $3k Supercomputer

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/6/24337530/nvidia-ces-digits-super-computer-ai

New GFX Cards including 2k 5090

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/6/24337396/nvidia-rtx-5080-5090-5070-ti-5070-price-release-date

Cosmos World nVidia World Model

https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1876565946124341635

DeepSeek 3 Crushes Open Source Benchmarks

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/deepseek-s-new-ai-model-appears-to-be-one-of-the-best-open-challengers-yet/ar-AA1wxkSg?ocid=TobArticle

Oopsie File: Meta Deletes AI Characters After Backlash

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/03/business/meta-ai-accounts-instagram-facebook/index.html

Minimax Subject Reference

https://x.com/madpencil_/status/1876289286783615473

Famous Science Rappers

https://youtu.be/B56rwm2sn7w?si=hD1ankVpWvALHAN5

Science Corner: METAGENE-1

https://x.com/PrimeIntellect/status/1876314809798729829

HeyGen Works With Sora -- VERY Good LipSync

https://x.com/joshua_xu_/status/1876707348686995605

GameStop of Thrones

https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1htvzzc/gamestop_of_thrones/

Simulation Clicker (not sure this is AI as much)

https://x.com/nealagarwal/status/1876292865929683020

Torso 2 In the Kitchen

https://x.com/clonerobotics/status/1876732633771548673

Roborock's Saros Z70

https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1876565471887085772

Halliday Smart Glasses

https://x.com/Halliday_Global/status/1871571904194371863