OpenAI's GPT-4o, Google's Project Astra, & More

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It has been a tremendous week, with the star presentations of OpenAI and Google. Although I focus on the ‘AI side’ in much more detail below, here are some overall highlights.

Google finally announced the model to compete with OpenAI’s Sora, named Veo. Not much is known, but the videos look very impressive.

They did not mention anything regarding video length (Sora reaches 1 minute) which might suggest that they aren’t quite there yet in terms of performance.

Google is also finally showing signs of changing the game for search. In a short video, they clarify where they stand: They envision a world where humans do the asking and AIs do the searching.

They call these ‘AI Overviews,’ with Gemini using ‘multi-step reasoning’ to break down your request, do all the searching for you, and give you relevant answers back.

This is literally a copy of Perplexity’s approach, which is a clear win for all of us… except websites. I feel this will dramatically reduce ad revenue for most websites in the world, as humans aren’t doing the clicking, AIs are. Google disagrees with this statement, as their head of Search believes the contrary will happen.

Hard to see how though. Anyway, the Internet business model is about to change fast, and I fear it will become a ‘pay-to-win’, so that your content is picked up by the AI.

This condensed video by The Verge has all announcements summarized.

Moving on to OpenAI, I explain in full detail below why its new model, ChatGPT-4o, is special. But you can…

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