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😲 OpenAI cancels o3 release?
🚨 Our Report — As part of a post on the social media platform, X, declaring "we want to do a better job of sharing our intended roadmap, and a much better job at simplifying our product offerings," OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, confirmed that OpenAI will not be releasing the highly anticipated reasoning model—o3—(first teased in December, with a mini version released just last month) as a standalone model, as expected, but will instead be shipping GPT-4.5 and GPT-5 in the coming weeks and months.
🔓 Key Points:
GPT-4.5 (codenamed ‘’Orion”) will be OpenAI’s "last non-chain-of-thought model" which will be released in “weeks,” and GPT-5 will “integrate a lot of [OpenAI’s] technology,” including o3, and will be out in “months”.
Alongside o3’s reasoning capabilities, GPT-5 will also include Voice Mode, Canvas, Search, and Deep Research to “unify o-series and GPT-series models” and create systems that are “useful for a wide range of tasks."
Altman confirmed that GPT-5 with a “standard level of intelligence” will be available to all users, but Plus subscribers will get “a higher level of intelligence” and Pro, “an even higher level of intelligence.”
🔐 Relevance — This announcement reveals a U-turn in OpenAI’s strategy: Previously they were asking users for $200 p/m for certain features—alienating many in the process—but now, they seem intent on making their products as accessible, user-friendly, and easy-to-use as possible, having realized “how complicated” their offerings have gotten, which could be a retaliation to DeepSeek’s explosive entry into the market with their reasoning model R1—which costs nothing to use, and was made for a fraction of the cost of OpenAI’s models—which has thrown many big tech strategies into question, not just OpenAI’s.
Is OpenAI’s change in strategy to help users or to claw back market share after DeepSeek?
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🤐 Apple secretly building robots?
🚨 Our Report — According to long-time Apple analyst—Ming-Chi Kuo—Apple is building up its robotics department to "explore both humanoid and non-humanoid robots”, which are reportedly already at the proof-of-concept (POC) stage.
🔓 Key Points:
Kuo believes that the mass production of these robots is unlikely to start before 2028 (if at all, as many products in Apple’s “testing ground”—like the Apple Car—don’t progress beyond the POC stage).
This aligns with recent ‘robotics' job listings, and reports that a secret ‘Home Labs hardware’ and an ‘AI special projects’ team are using findings from the Apple car to build tabletop robots and "home robotics devices.”
Kuo’s findings also suggest that “Apple cares about how users build perception with robots,” implying they may use “sensing hardware” that detects and measures changes in the environment, like temperature or light.
🔐 Relevance — If these reports are true, Apple is likely to face difficulties with hiring engineers quick enough to support the scale of production—as they did when developing the Apple car—an issue that many other robotics firms are currently struggling with.
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◀️ Musk to withdraw OpenAI bid, if…
Musk offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4B earlier this week (which was swiftly rejected by CEO, Sam Altman), a calculated move that was designed to slow OpenAI’s transition into a for-profit company.
In the latest update, Musk has reportedly said he’ll withdraw his bid if OpenAI agrees to drop its plans to become a for-profit entity and is “prepared to preserve the charity's mission” (to develop AI for the benefit of mankind).
If they don’t, court filings state that "the charity must be compensated by what an arms-length buyer will pay for its assets" (which is referring to Musk's ‘serious offer’) to “further the charity’s mission.”
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