Hey guys, running a bit late on this one but here's the news:

Hey look a new ChatGPT:

ChatGPT 4.5 is here:

• In a few words it's "impressively bad"
• Seriously underperforms when compared to competition
• Truly absurd pricing puts it at 25x or ~38x the price of the previous 4o (input and output pricing)
• OpenAI seems to be losing the conventional model race, even if they're winning in chain-of-thought (reasoning)

There's also been several leaks about more agents. If you remember from previous news drops, these are models that can perform tasks entirely on their own, such as research or programming. These leaks indicate that hiring a knowledge worker agent could cost over $2000 a month, with software development and research agents being priced up at the $20000 per month tier, competitive with real humans in terms of cost!

Qwen is back for more:

Alibaba cloud has released a new update for QwQ, their chain-of-thought (reasoning) model. QwQ 32b is a 32-billion-parameter reasoning model that has pretty solid performance, putting it on par with DeepSeek's R1 (a model over 20x the size) and handily defeating o1-mini from OpenAI. 32b is pretty small for a model, making it efficient to run locally.

Google continues to add AI into search:

Google has doubled down on AI in search, with new tools coming to allow you to ask follow up questions. Google seems to be moving away from traditional linking to websites, which severely impacts the traffic and ad revenue of these sites. The main issue with these AI overviews is that they have a tendency to be pretty wrong, and in the past have recommended people eat glue or small rocks.

Meta & Google Deepmind - Looking to the future:

Both Meta and Google Deepmind are working on upcoming smart glasses. Both will feature AI assistants to help the user get things done, and at least Google's will feature a head's up display style projection into your field of view. Deepmind has previous experience with the failed Google Glass, but it's beginning to look like it may simply have been ahead of its time. There's not a ton of knowledge about the Meta product, but they've made a few smart glasses with Ray-Ban before, although they just featured a camera, microphone, and speaker based AI system, no interactable GUI. Google Deepmind's glasses are rumored to be unveiled at Google I/O in May, Google leaks are generally pretty spot on so we should see some pretty interesting tech then!

That's it for this week!