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Hello again, human brain, and welcome back to your daily munch of AI news.

Here’s what’s on the menu today:

• OpenAI’s CEO admits he sucks💵

  Sam Altman did a Reddit AMA.

• China forces OpenAI to compete💻

  OpenAI launched o3-mini.

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MAIN COURSE

OpenAI CEO: We were wrong 💵

On Friday, Sam Altman did a Reddit AMA. He acknowledged OpenAI's dominance is shrinking and hinted at major strategy changes. He revealed plans to cut ChatGPT Plus’ costs despite losing money.

What's changing?

Altman admits being “on the wrong side of history” on open source. OpenAI may release older models as the DeepSeek threat grows.

More on DeepSeek, here.

What's coming next?

• o3 reasoning model in months

• New DALL-E that’s allegedly “worth the wait.”

• Better voice features

• More automation

What about Trump’s Stargate?

Says massive computing project crucial for survival as competition heats up.

More on Stargate, here.

What's the real story?

OpenAI is scrambling to adapt as DeepSeek proves you don't need billions to build competitive AI.

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OpenAI's desperate price cut💻

On Friday, OpenAI launched o3-mini. It promises to bring advanced reasoning to free users and slash costs to compete with Chinese rivals. Ahem… DeepSeek.

What's new?

OpenAI claims it’s a faster, smarter AI that's 93% cheaper than o1. Free users get basic access. Paid users get full features. (Only 50 uses per week. 🙄)

Why now?

This is a direct response to DeepSeek's viral R1 model. OpenAI is matching Chinese prices while claiming better safety.

What can it do?

It beats older models at math and coding. It also adds search with source links.

Who can use it?

Free users get a Reason button. Pro users get unlimited access and stronger versions.

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Think Piece 🧠

China’s secret nuclear facility? China is building a massive laser fusion facility, about 50% larger than the US National Ignition Facility.

Startup News 💰

Elon and Apple? Apple partnered with SpaceX and T-Mobile to let iPhones connect to Starlink satellites, starting with iOS 18.3.

Mistral released its Small 3 model. It’s a 24B-parameter model under Apache 2.0 that delivers near real-time text generation with ~81% MMLU accuracy.

Research 👨‍🔬 

GuardReasoner — trains a separate “guard” model to detect unsafe outputs by explicitly reasoning through harmfulness.

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