In this first episode of our new podcast, Gordon Mullan and Govind Shukla discuss the latest news in the world of AI, plus other news from robotics, ethics, regulation, and more!

NAVIGATION

00:00 - Introduction

06:42 - Google

18:15 - OpenAI

21:44 - Microsoft

40:08 - Mistral

45:16 - China: Alibaba

52:40 - China: Manus

56:30 - Windsurf Editor

57:40 - Cursor IDE

59:27 - Opera

1:00:10 - Cohere

1:05:35 - Law and Order

1:16:45 - Science and Technology

1:31:34 - Conclusion

WHERE TO WATCH US AND LISTEN

🔸 YouTube: https://youtu.be/o6LIEhjB0_0

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🔸 Spotify: https://bit.ly/awclub-en-spotify

🔸 Download mp3: https://anywhereclub.simplecast.com/episodes/36

SERVICES AND LINKS FROM THE EPISODE

🔹 Google's Investment in Anthropic: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/technology/google-investment-anthropic.html

🔹 AI Studio Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental: https://aistudio.google.com/prompts/new_chat

🔹 Gemma-3: https://huggingface.co/collections/google/gemma-3-release-67c6c6f89c4f76621268bb6d

🔹 AI Mode in Google Search: https://blog.google/products/search/ai-mode-search/

🔹 Python Interpreter (code execution): https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemini-20-deep-dive-code-execution/

🔹 Gemini Embeddings: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/embeddings

🔹 ChatGPT for macOS now edits code in IDE: https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/1897700857833193955

🔹 New API Tools for AI Agents: https://www.youtube.com/live/hciNKcLwSes

🔹 NextGenAI Contracts with Universities: https://openai.com/index/introducing-nextgenai/

🔹 OpenAI's $20,000 AI Agents: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-plots-charging-20-000-a-month-for-phd-level-agents

🔹 Microsoft MAI: https://fortune.com/2025/03/07/microsoft-creates-in-house-ai-models-it-believes-rival-openais/?utm_source=www.therundown.ai&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=ilya-s-secret-asi-roadmap&_bhlid=dfb9c2edd83857673d88b02ebd6081ea969029c8

🔹 Mistral OCR: https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ocr

🔹 QwQ-32B: https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwq-32b/

🔹 Fine-tuning QwQ-32B (START): https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/2503.04625

🔹 Alibaba’s R1-Omni Model: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-12/alibaba-releases-emotional-intelligence-model-to-rival-chatgpt

🔹 R1-Omni on Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/StarJiaxing/R1-Omni-0.5B

🔹 Qwen Chat Enhancements: https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/1899497336889659775?utm_source=alphasignal

🔹 Qwen Chat: https://chat.qwen.ai/

🔹 AI-agent Manus: https://manus.im/

🔹 Manus reveals internals to users: https://x.com/jianxliao/status/1898861051183349870?s=46&t=dUCVh9akIWxxNUIkrDJwJg

🔹 Prompt for Manus: https://gist.github.com/jlia0/db0a9695b3ca7609c9b1a08dcbf872c9

🔹 Mistral OCR: https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ocr

🔹 Anthropic’s Request for AI Regulation: https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-s-recommendations-ostp-u-s-ai-action-plan

🔹 Gemini Robotics from Google: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/gemini-robotics-brings-ai-into-the-physical-world/

🔹 AI Scientist by Sakana AI: https://sakana.ai/ai-scientist-first-publication/

🔹 Users Form Emotional Bonds with AI Voices: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/users-report-emotional-bonds-with-startlingly-realistic-ai-voice-demo/

🔹 Cohere Releases Command Model: https://docs.cohere.com/v1/reference/generate

🔹 AI Content Labeling Law in Spain: https://www.elconfidencial.com/espana/2021-02-01/sentencia-tsjc-elecciones-catalanas-14f_2931096/

🔹 Windsurf Editor Update: https://windsurf.dev/blog/ai-first-editor

🔹 Raycast Pro AI: https://www.raycast.com/blog/raycast-pro

🔹 OpenAI’s Agents SDK Library: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/agents

🔹 OpenAI to Sell High-End AI Agents: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-plots-charging-20-000-a-month-for-phd-level-agents

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