OpenAI launched a new podcast, with CEO Sam Altman sharing new details, including: —GPT-5 will launch sometime this summer
—Internal debate going on over naming strategy for user clarity
—Elon tried using his power in the government to unfairly compete
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OpenAI Podcast: GPT-5 Summer Launch, Naming Strategy, Elon Competition
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OpenAI Launches Podcast with Sam Altman on GPT-5 Timeline
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AI NEWS: OpenAI just launched a podcast where CEO Sam Altman shared GPT-5's launch timeline Plus, more news from Midjourney, Google, MiniMax, Higgsfield, Hugging Face, and MIT. Here's everything you need to know:
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II-Medical-8B-1706: Efficient Open Medical Model Outperforms Larger Competitors
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Intelligent Internet introduced II-Medical-8B-1706, an updated version of its open medical model Capable of running on <8GB RAM, the AI outperformed Google’s MedGemma 27B across benchmarks despite 70% fewer parameters
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MiniMax’s Hailuo 02: Powerful Video AI Ranked #2 Globally
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China's MiniMax continues to cook — this time delivering a powerful video AI called Hailuo 02
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 18 juin 2025
The model currently ranks #2 on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard (ahead of Veo 3) with 1080p outputs and the ability to handle extreme physicspic.twitter.com/N7WaEh8QdSChina's MiniMax continues to cook — this time delivering a powerful video AI called Hailuo 02 The model currently ranks #2 on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard (ahead of Veo 3) with 1080p outputs and the ability to handle extreme physics
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Chinese Livestreamer Uses AI Clone to Generate $7.5M in Sales
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One of China’s biggest livestreamers just outdid himself in ecommerce, with an AI clone
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 18 juin 2025
His avatar hosted a 6-hour stream powered by Baidu’s ERNIE AI, promoted 133 products, pulled 13M views, and drove $7.5M+ in sales
The future of live commerce is herepic.twitter.com/qhX1jP8D6xOne of China’s biggest livestreamers just outdid himself in ecommerce, with an AI clone His avatar hosted a 6-hour stream powered by Baidu’s ERNIE AI, promoted 133 products, pulled 13M views, and drove $7.5M+ in sales The future of live commerce is here
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Google Launches Gemini 2.5 Pro, Flash, and Flash-Lite Models
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Google just launched Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash models in general availability
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 18 juin 2025
The co also started rolling out a hyper-efficient Flash-Lite model (in preview)
All three feature adjustable "thinking" with Flash-Lite defaulting to thinking off for max speedpic.twitter.com/ZJgveuq3EfGoogle just launched Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash models in general availability The co also started rolling out a hyper-efficient Flash-Lite model (in preview) All three feature adjustable "thinking" with Flash-Lite defaulting to thinking off for max speed
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Sam Altman Criticizes Meta’s Talent Poaching and Innovation Capabilities
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Sam Altman cooked Meta on his brother's podcast. Key takeaways:
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 18 juin 2025
— Meta’s offering $100K bonus to poach OAI talent
— None of OAI’s best have taken the offers
— OAI has a better shot at AGI, will eventually be more valuable
— Meta isn't great at innovationpic.twitter.com/68f3UUAeT9Sam Altman cooked Meta on his brother's podcast. Key takeaways: — Meta’s offering $100K bonus to poach OAI talent
— None of OAI’s best have taken the offers
— OAI has a better shot at AGI, will eventually be more valuable
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Meta Offers $100M Bonuses to Recruit OpenAI Talent
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AI NEWS: Sam Altman just revealed Meta is offering "$100M signing bonuses" to poach talent from OpenAI. Plus, more news from Google, Baidu, MiniMax, Proactor, Krea, and Intelligent Internet. Here's everything you need to know: