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Feb 14, 2025

Hello and welcome to our weekly roundup!

Today, we're discussing the latest EU's attempt to enter the global AI race, OpenAI's roadmap for this year, another Elon Musk and Sam Altman biff (who's buying from whom?), and other huge news!

Without further ado, let’s get started.

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EU Attempt to Break Into The Global AI Race

Earlier this week, Paris hosted the AI Action Summit, the largest event dedicated to developing AI in Europe. The summit brought together more than 5,000 experts and 80 world leaders, including French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Here are two key announcements:

European AI Champions Initiative with €150B investment commitment

VC firm General Catalyst leads this initiative and promises to "unlock Europe’s full potential in AI". Over 60 companies have signed on to the project, including ASML, Airbus, Mistral AI, Siemens, Spotify, and Volkswagen.

InvestAI's €50B program to fund gigafactories and other AI projects

Central to InvestAI is a €20B fund for the creation of four AI factories.

They will each house approximately 100,000 next-gen AI chips, which will help train models. The authors of the program claim that not only large enterprises, but also small startups will have access to these factories.

These initiatives, totaling $200B, are a direct response to the U.S. Stargate project that was announced by Trump a couple of weeks earlier. And that’s how the EU wants to close the gap with the U.S. and China in the next five years.

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InvestAI will be funded by a combination of the EU budget and contributions from Member States, supplemented by existing programs such as Digital Europe, Horizon Europe, and InvestEU.

The European Commission will also work on a simplified regulatory framework for AI and discuss a strategy to accelerate its adoption with a “select group of CEOs.”

It seems Europe didn't appreciate the memes about caps attached to bottles.
But if we talk a bit more seriously, the EU's prospects are still dim. Even though the European Commission is ready to allocate “big money” to develop AI projects, the main problem associated with overly strict regulation remains.
Besides, the US already has leading developers (OpenAI, Google, Meta, and others) and larger investments. So, I doubt that Europe will be able to close this gap.

News Of The Week 🌍

OpenAI’s Roadmap | GPT-4.5 & GPT-5 Are Coming

Sam Altman posted on X a roadmap for OpenAI for this year. The founder and CEO didn't reveal specific details, but gave plenty of topics for discussion and good room for speculation. Including those dedicated to the next generation of AI models from OpenAI. Here's what you need to know.

GPT-4.5 (“Orion”) as a Transition Model: Altman revealed that the upcoming GPT-4.5, codenamed “Orion,” will be the final model to operate without chain-of-thought reasoning.
The Advent of GPT-5: Following GPT-4.5, OpenAI plans to launch GPT-5. It will be a system that merges the capabilities of both the GPT-series and the o-series models.

Simplification of Product Offerings: Addressing user frustration with a confusing “model picker” interface, Altman said the new unified system will allow AI to “just work” without manual selection.

We don't know the specific release dates for GPT-4.5 and GPT-5. However, in response to user questions, Sama clarified that GPT-4.5 will be available in the coming weeks and GPT-5 in months.

OpenAI, Google and Meta on Super Bowl 2025

This year's Super Bowl was an important event not only for fans of sports, movies, music, and unusual marketing. Several tech companies promoted their AIs there. OpenAI debuted its first ever Super Bowl ad to bring ChatGPT to the masses. Then Google decided to remind everyone about its Pixel 9 and Gemini. And Meta promoted their Ray-Ban Meta with Chris Hemsworth and Chris Pratt.

In addition to the above, the Super Bowl also featured AI-related commercials from Salesforce, Cirkul, and GoDaddy.

New Stage of the Musk-Altman Controversy

Elon Musk suddenly offered $97.4B to acquire OpenAI with a promise to return the company to its original nonprofit mission. He criticized OpenAI's shift to a for-profit model as a betrayal of its founding principles. Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO, immediately rejected the offer via a post on X, humorously countering the offer to buy X for $9.74B-a fraction of its valuation when Musk acquired it for $44B.

Altman also rejected Musk's criticism of OpenAI's commercial transition, saying that leadership in AI requires adequate funding.

Apple Is Exploring Humanoid Robots

Apple is reportedly venturing into robotics, focusing on both humanoid and non-humanoid robots as part of its future smart home ecosystem. According to renowned analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the project is in the early proof-of-concept (POC) stage, with mass production unlikely before 2028. Interestingly, the insider came shortly after Apple developed a Pixar-inspired smart lamp.

This lamp will most likely not be commercialized. However, the developments may form the basis for other company devices.

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Another Chinese Model Shows Its AI Model

In recent days, X has seen a lot of hype around the new Chinese model. Developed by Moonshot AI, Kimi AI 1.5 offers multimodal reasoning for processing text, images, and code. It has a 200,000-character contextual window, outperforming competitors such as GPT-4, and provides real-time web search across 1,000+ websites.

Kimi AI 1.5 also excelled in benchmarks, beating GPT-4 and Claude 3.5 Sonnet in math and coding tests. You can try this model for free now.

YouTube Shorts Introduces AI Video Creation with Veo 2

YouTube Shorts has integrated Veo 2, a text-to-video tool developed by Google DeepMind. Creators can now produce video clips using simple text descriptions. This tool can also adjust styles, effects, and lenses for tailored results. According to the company, Veo 2 enhances the accuracy of human movement and real-world physics in generated videos. All generated content will include a watermark via DeepMind's SynthID to identify synthetic media.

The feature is currently rolling out to creators in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, with plans for global expansion.

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