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Innovation Profs - 1/8/2025
Your weekly guide to generative AI tools and news
Innovation Profs
January 08, 2025
Generative AI News
Throughout mid-December, up to the holiday break, we covered the first eight days of the 12 Days of OpenAI, and then we took a few weeks off for the holidays (we know, we know, AI never sleeps). In case you missed the final four days of holiday surprises, here’s a quick rundown:
Day 10: You can now call 1-800-CHATGPT
Here a few more headlines from the past week:
OpenAI is losing money on its pricey ChatGPT Pro plan, CEO Sam Altman says
ChatGPT Pro, launched on the first of the 12 days of OpenAI, comes in at a whopping $200 a month and provides users with unlimited access to OpenAI’s advanced reasoning model o1 as well as the more advanced o1 pro mode. It turns out that more people are taking advantage of the plan than OpenAI expected, with the effect that OpenAI is losing money due to the high rate of usage of o1 (and o1 pro mode) by Pro users. This is just one instance of broader profitability issues that OpenAI is facing with their current pricing levels.
Google Gemini is racing to win the AI crown in 2025
We’ve had lots to say about OpenAI in recent editions of our newsletter with all of the new tools and updates dropped in December, but one dark horse to watch out for is Google Gemini. (Really, Google a dark horse?) Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai is pushing for Gemini to match and surpass its rivals in 2025. In his words, “In history, you don’t always need to be first, but you have to execute well and really be the best in class as a product. I think that’s what 2025 is all about.” We’ll certainly report more on Google’s attempt to claw back some of the generative AI market over the coming year.
OpenAI's Latest AI Can Cost More Than $1,000 Per Query
On the 12th day of OpenAI, my true love gave to me…another advanced reasoning model, o3. (What about o2? We didn’t skip a generation—the name was already taken, as O2 is a British telecommunications company.) o3 is not yet available for public use, but if this report is correct, it won’t really be available for public use when it’s released, as it costs more than ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS in computing power per reasoning task. Clearly, this is not for the masses, but o3 might be seen at this point as a proof of concept, as it scored 87.5% on the ARC-AGI benchmark for LLMs, a score vastly higher than previous scores. According to Francois Chollet, developer of the benchmark, “It's very expensive, but it's not just brute -- these capabilities are new territory and they demand serious scientific attention.”
Quick Hits
Tool of the week: Jellypod
AI podcasts are all the rage, and Jellypod released its AI Podcast Studio as an alternative to NotebookLM to create podcasts in minutes. Users can design or clone a voice, upload sources of information, create/edit an outline and generate a podcast. Users can get started for free.
AI-generated image of the week
Do cats laugh? They do when you use Midjourney.
Prompt: realistic image of an orange cat texting on an iphone and laughingGet starting with Generative AI
New to generative AI? Here are some places to start…
What we found
It’s Consumer Electronic Show (CES) time, and this year AI is all the rage. CNET shared a roundup of AI powered gadgets that are being shown off at the event - from TVs to lawnmowers to glasses.