ChatGPT 5.5 Coming Soon?
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The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
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What does the AI rumor mill say about the next big model release?
Today on the AI Daily Brief, what the AI rumor mill says about when we might get the next big model. And before that in the headlines, Microsoft coming in hot with some plans to make people less mad about data centers and electricity. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. All right, friends, quick announcements, as always, before we dig in. Firstly, thanks to today's sponsors, KPMG, Robots and Pencils, Zencoder, and Superintelligent.
How is Microsoft addressing political backlash over data center costs?
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The odds-on bet for how it does make it there is less about AI itself, although there's plenty of issues that people have, and more about the broader theme, which is very clearly going to dominate this election cycle, which is affordability. In short, to the extent that data centers are perceived to be a contributor to higher costs of living for Americans, those data centers and the larger AI industry are going to have a not-so-fun time politically. Indeed, as he goes after a number of different affordability issues, Donald Trump has turned his attention and his truth social account on this particular one as well. On Monday, he wrote, First up is Microsoft, who my team has been working with, and which will make major changes beginning this week to ensure that Americans don't pick up the tab for their power consumption in the form of paying higher utility bills.
We are the hottest country in the world and number one in AI. Data centers are key to that boom and keeping Americans free and secure, but the big technology companies who build them must pay their own way. Thank you and congratulations to Microsoft. More to come soon. Now, it is way beyond the scope of this headlines episode to get into the full complexity of why electricity costs are up and what percentage of it is actually from AI. But frankly, I think all of those are completely losing political arguments. And all that matters is basically exactly what President Trump is getting at here, which is the perception of whether the big companies are not only picking up the tab for themselves, but perhaps even paying a little bit more to try to make this viable for everyone else.
been talking about this type of policy for a while. Investor Chamath Palihapitiya started tweeting about it somewhere in the middle of last year and kept it up throughout the fall, for example, in October, writing, the hyperscalers should take the electricity cost of local residents to zero and start buying goodwill. Otherwise, I expect more local communities to push back on these data centers, which will complicate the AI build-out that needs to happen. So what did Microsoft actually announce? In a blog post on Tuesday from Vice Chair and President Brad Smith, the company wrote about a five-part plan to build what they're calling community-first AI infrastructure. They write that the plan commits them to concrete steps needed to be a good neighbor in the communities where they build, own, and operate their data centers.
So what are the five parts of their plan? The first is that they'll pay their own way to ensure their data centers don't increase other people's electricity prices. Basically, they say they're going to pay utility rates that are high enough to cover their electricity costs and make sure it doesn't get passed on to the communities in which they're operating.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What does the AI rumor mill say about the next big model release?
0:00–0:30
2
How is Microsoft addressing political backlash over data center costs?
0:30–3:44
3
What are the implications of chip geopolitics for NVIDIA and China?
3:44–4:14
4
What recent acquisitions has OpenAI made in health tech?
4:14–5:53
5
How are Google and Anthropic changing the competitive landscape?
5:53–7:48
6
What are the rumored features of the upcoming ChatGPT model?
7:48–9:44
7
How does DeepSeq's new model aim to improve coding performance?
9:44–11:36
8
What future developments can we expect from Anthropic's Labs team?
11:36–20:06