OpenAI Declares the Next Phase of AI

Today on the AI Daily Brief, some big questions around the next phase of AI and whether what we now call AI is actually multiple things. Before that in the headlines, OpenAI joins the IPO filing party. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. Alright, friends. Quick announcements before we dive in. First of all, thank you to today's sponsors, KPMG, robots and pencils, ZenCoder, and OutSystems. To get an ad free version of the show, go to patreon.com/aidailybrief, or you can subscribe on Apple Podcasts. Remember, it is just $3 a month for ad free. And if you wanna learn more about sponsoring the show, send us a note at sponsors@aidailybrief.ai. Also, a big thank you to everyone who has filled out our AIDB for Teams survey. One of the things that's becoming very clear is that something that people are really looking for is an easier way to share specific nuggets from the episodes. We've got a couple new ideas for that coming up, potentially with a brand new web page, so keep your eyes peeled for that over the next couple of weeks. For now though, let's jump into the headlines. You can absolutely feel things heating up right now. We'll have some dimensions of that in our discussion in our main episode. But even throughout the headlines, the stakes are just getting raised, markets are firing up, energy is high, the whole AI space is just vibrating on a different level. One example of that, OpenAI has officially thrown their hat in the ring and filed to go public. The company filed their IPO paperwork confidentially on Monday. Now as I mentioned after the anthropic filing last week, confidential filing is the industry standard and certainly doesn't carry any significant implications. All it really means is that we don't get to look at the company's financials until much later in the process. We also won't know the valuation sought by OpenAI until much closer to the listing. And while the press is casting this as an all out race between OpenAI and Anthropic, the quotes don't suggest a lot of urgency from the companies themselves. When asked about the IPO last week, Anthropic president Daniela Amode simply stated that the filing, quote, gives us the option to potentially go public after the SEC review. In an ex post on Monday, OpenAI said, we have not decided on timing yet. It may be a while because there are things we want to do that are likely easier as a private company, but it's a complicated set of trade offs, and this gives us the option to go public sooner if that ends up being best. Now if you did decide that that was all just bluster and these companies were in fact in an all out race, judging from the speed of the SpaceX IPO, you're probably looking at September as the earliest reasonable possibility. …