Jon Krohn investigates OpenAI’s new release, o3-mini, in this five-minute Friday, where he walks through the reasoning model’s capabilities and performance, cross-examining them against other major-league players, DeepSeek-R1, GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet.
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In Episode #1021, Tristan Handy (Founder and CEO of dbt Labs) joins Jon Krohn to explain how a study of about a hundred companies in 2016 became analytics engineering, and then became a tool that over a hundred thousand data teams rely on. Tristan coined the term, chose SQL when ... Show More
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DeepSeek Rises, Stargate Drama, OpenAI’s Operator Debuts
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) DeepSeek r1, an efficient, cheap reasoning model from China 2) How DeepSeek stacks up against the state of the art 3) Does DeepSeek invalidate the billions of dollars invested in curren ... Show More
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ChatGPT Search and the AI Search Arms Race
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<p>This week, OpenAI released its much-anticipated flagship model, GPT-5. We break down what we know about the upgrade, drawing from our initial testing and a special news briefing with Sam Altman. Then, we explain why we were underwhelmed by Amazon’s new Alexa+, which is powered ... Show More
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