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Quietly, but steadily, OpenAI is advancing the state of the art in AI. Can you see this? The o3 model is amazing. And we just got it, what, seven weeks ago? Itâs become my right hand really. It doesnât take over. I donât delegate. But itâs the productive engine that provides structure, content, fodder, knowledge, options. ðð²ð¹ð¶ð²ðð² ð¶ð ðŒð¿ ð»ðŒð ᅵᅵᅵðµðŒððŽðµ, ð¶ðâð ð»ðŒð ðð²ð°ðŒð»ð± ð³ð¶ð±ð±ð¹ð². Introducing âo3-pro.â
Last week OpenAI quietly flicked a switch that ChatGPT powerâusers immediately noticed: "o1-pro" was gone. In its place? A new model called âo3âpro.â Itâs the same âreasoning-firstâ architecture as o3, but you get a lot more compute under the hood, a lot more intelligence. Hereâs the catch: ðð®ð¶ð ðð¶ðºð²ð ð®ð¿ð² ðºðŒð¿ð² ð¹ð¶ðžð² âðŽð¿ð®ð¯ ð® ð°ðŒð³ð³ð²ð²â ðð°ð®ð¹ð².
Why the longer wait? o3 is given a lot more compute per query. It can pause, back-track, verify its steps. And it comes with the expected menu of capabilities; live web search, Python execution, file analysis, image understanding, longâterm memory recall. In complex prompts it might be calling these tools hundreds of times, a far cry from the halcyon days of GPT 3.5! In head-to-head testing it beats o3 and o1-pro on math, science, programming, business writing and general QA.
Quick highlights:
⢠ð¥ðŒð¹ð¹ðŒðð: Pro and Team get first crack, Enterprise and API access following in days
⢠ððŒðºðœððð²: Extra cycles per query give it time to backâtrack, verify its thinking
⢠ðð°ð°ðð¿ð®ð°ð: Outscores o3 and o1âpro across code, math, science, business writing
⢠ð§ðŒðŒð¹ð: Ships with web search, Python, file & image analysis, longâterm memory
⢠ð£ð¿ð¶ð°ð¶ð»ðŽ: Sits atâ¯$20â¯/â¯$80 per million tokens, standard o3 dropped to $2â¯/â¯$8
⢠ðŠðœð²ð²ð±: Responses can take minutes; itâs built for depth, not banter
⢠ððŒð»ðð²ð ð: Loves complex prompts, treat it like a consultant, not a chat buddy
⢠ðð²ð»ð°ðµðºð®ð¿ðžð: Hits new highs on math, science and coding leaderboards
⢠ðŠðð¶ðð®ð¯ð¶ð¹ð¶ðð: Ideal for any task where correctness trumps latency
⢠ðð¶ðºð¶ðð®ðð¶ðŒð»ð: No image gen yet, Canvas is absent, temporary chats disabled
So, there you have it. o3-pro is basically saying, âSure Iâm slow, but Iâm good!â Iâll take it! I needed that coffee anyway!
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Itâs all connected. It may not seem like it is. But it is. The AI news pops every day and weâre seeing it all in a blur; blockbuster deals, huge funding, shiny new apps, tools. But the deeper story is there hiding in plain sight.
Hereâs a flurry of events that transpired in just the last 24 hours:
⢠IBM bought Seek AI and opened a Watsonx lab for data queries
⢠Microsoft added free Sora video generation to Bing mobile
⢠https://t.co/EgpLj32ZDJ launched AvatarFX video and social sharing
⢠Meta targeted fully automated AI ad creation by 2026
⢠Creatify AI raised $15.5M for AI-made social video ads
⢠Console netted $6.2M for an AI Slack help-desk bot
⢠Google ships AI Edge Gallery and puts it on device
⢠Snowflake acquired Crunchy Data to blend Postgres and AI
⢠Muskâs xAI chases a $113B valuation in new funding
⢠Neuralink secures $650M, begins human brain-computer trials
Just another AI day in 2025 right? Are there consistent through-lines? Perhaps.
Theme 1: AI is embedding itself in the tools we already use
Bing, Slack, Instagram, Snowflake, Android, Neuralink, none of these were âAI products,â but each one now has a intelligence under the hood. The common thread? Convenience: bring the intelligence to the workflow. The idea? Make the AI feel like a natural extension, not a separate destination.
Theme 2: Generative tech is pushing the limits on modality
Video clips from Sora, animated avatars from https://t.co/EgpLj32ZDJ, polished ads from Creatify, even signals straight from a neural implant⊠Every story shows AI crossing modalities. Why is this significant? The addressable surface for creativity becomes accessible to everyone.
Theme 3: The distance between data, compute, and model is collapsing
IBM snaps up a query engine, Snowflake folds in Postgres, Google packs models on-device. This convergence matters. Why? When inference happens next to the bits, product output feels immediate, and immediacy breeds trust. The wall between âdatabaseâ and âAI engineâ is crumbling fast.
Theme 4: Mundane tasks are migrating from humans to machines
Ad copy, campaign targeting, database wrangling⊠jobs once carried out by humans are now being shifted to AI. It's not about firing people; itâs about raising the floor of what counts as baseline productivity. Humans are getting moved up the stack, towards judgment, relationship, oversight.
Theme 5: Capital is pouring into âintelligenceâ conduits that promise scale
The numbers are stunning. $113Bfor xAI, $650M for Neuralink. But the logicâs obvious. If youâve got the data, the talent, the compute, you can raise the capital. Investors canât risk missing out so theyâre investing in optionality. âMoney flows downhillâ ⊠towards the momentum.
Iâm sure thereâs a dozen other memes, themes, but the bottom line is, âintelligenceâ is now becoming democratized.
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There are moments in time that are pivots, doors that open, ðð¶ðŽðµð ððµð®ðâð ðŽð¿ð®ð»ðð²ð± ðð ððŒ ðð² ð°ð®ð» ðŽð²ð ð® ðŽð¹ð¶ðºðœðð² ðŒð³ ððµð² ð³ðððð¿ð², innovation that changes the way we live, the way we move ahead, the way we think and operate. This was true in 1977. Sure, there were other âpersonal computersâ that were around at the time. Radio Shack was pitching the TRS-80 and there was the Commodore PET and of course, the Atari 2600, all popular in their own way.
And then there was the Apple II which debuted 48 years ago today. Now, it was priced dramatically higher than all of those above and yet it outsold them by a wide margin. One version with a whopping 48K of RAM sold for $2,638 ($ðð°,ð¬ð¬ð¬ ð¶ð» ð®ð¬ð®ð± ð±ðŒð¹ð¹ð®ð¿ð), and if you needed a 143K floppy drive you had to fork over another $495.
How did Steve Jobs put it? âðªð²âð¿ð² ðµð²ð¿ð² ððŒ ðœðð ð® ð±ð²ð»ð ð¶ð» ððµð² ðð»ð¶ðð²ð¿ðð². ð¢ððµð²ð¿ðð¶ðð² ððµð ð²ð¹ðð² ð²ðð²ð» ð¯ð² ðµð²ð¿ð²?â Dent it they did. It wasnât long before this interesting software #VisiCalc came along, a âvisual calculatorâ (known to you as a spreadsheet). And then #WordStar for word processing and #dBase for databases.
Suddenly, unbelievably, small businesses could perform financial analysis and create written documents and track customers in ways never before possible. They found it easily worth the investment. Somewhere between 5 and 6 million Apple II series computers would be sold before its end of life in 1993.
What is todayâs Apple II?
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Your Best Ideas! Actually, your best ideas arenât always whatâs needed. Sure, good ideas are⊠good. But sometimes success comes from just doing the work. ðððð ððŒ ð§ðµð² ðªðŒð¿ðž. Your ideas, your ingenuity, your values, your heart, might just come out, might just surprise everyone, including yourself.
For example, take one Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Asked to compose a work to memorialize Russiaâs victory over Napoleon, Tchaikovsky didnât feel much enthusiasm for the work, probably only agreeing to do it for the lucrative commission. ððð, ðµð² ð·ððð ð±ð¶ð± ððµð² ððŒð¿ðž. Only spending six weeks on the effort, he wasnât extremely proud of it, calling it âvery loud and noisy.â
Noisy indeed. Featuring pealing church bells and exploding cannons, the public immediately loved it and its popularity has never waned.
134 years ago today in fact, Tchaikovsky conducted the work himself in a command performance for the opening of the brand new Carnegie Hall. And today the 1812 Overture is standard fare at most celebrations of American Independence. It's never been more popular in fact. ð¡ðŒð ð¯ð®ð± ð³ðŒð¿ ð·ððð ð±ðŒð¶ð»ðŽ ððµð² ððŒð¿ðž.
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You know the arc of every story donât you? You know, âOnce upon a timeâŠâ, âAnd every dayâŠâ etc... So, hereâs the charming story of o3.
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Largeâlanguage models ruled the roost with words alone. GPTâ4o could joke in Italian, summarize SEC filings, but, it stared helplessly at a whiteboard. Claude 3.5, Geminiâ¯2.0 - all brilliant of course, but all basically textâfirst.
ðð»ð±â¯ð²ðð²ð¿ðâ¯ð±ð®ðâŠ
Teams hacked around the gap: bolting vector databases onto chatbots, copyâpasting screenshots into Slack, scribbling system diagrams twice - once for humans, once for the model. Useful? Yes. Seamless? Not at all.
ðšð»ðð¶ð¹â¯ðŒð»ð²â¯ð±ð®ð...
OpenAI dropped o3. This new âreflective architectureâ can think with images, juggle every ChatGPT tool into one coherent plan, and swallow 200K+ tokens of context without blinking.
ðð»ð±â¯ð¯ð²ð°ð®ððð²â¯ðŒð³â¯ððµð¶ðâŠ
Dayâone demos shocked even the doubters. A grimy phoneâshot of a microservice tangle came back as a redesign that halved AWS spend. A medical researcher fed in handwritten notes and o3 generated a structured clinical trial protocol.
ðð»ð±â¯ð¯ð²ð°ð®ððð²â¯ðŒð³â¯ððµð¶ðâŠ
Adoption went viral. Competitors scrambled. GitHub. Claudeâ¯3.7â¯Sonnet touted hybrid reasoning, a 200K context (but no native imageâchain logic). Geminiâ¯2.5â¯Pro boasted 1M context, yet reviewers noted slower tool choreography compared with o3âs âoneâbrainâ pipeline.
ðšð»ðð¶ð¹â¯ð³ð¶ð»ð®ð¹ð¹ðâŠ
The burning question arose: ðð ððµð¶ð ððð? Nope. o3 can reflect, plan, manipulate tools, but it still chases your objective, not its own. It doesnât set subâgoals unprompted or maintain a persistent worldview across sessions. Superhuman at tasks? Yup, but still humanâdirected on mission.
ðð»ð±â¯ð²ðð²ð¿â¯ðð¶ð»ð°ð²â¯ððµð®ðâ¯ð±ð®ðâŠ
The leaderboard reshuffled. Claude 3.7 wins on raw textᅵᅵᅵlength answers; Gemini 2.5 flexes giant context breadth. But o3âs imageânative reasoning gives it a headline feature rivals donât yet match. If Sam hasnât hit a grandâslam, heâs at least parked one off the wall.
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@thoughtworks I absolutely love it. Blending the three things that, when put together, allow you to build technology solutions that solve the worldâs toughest business challenges. I say this wholeheartedly: Well done!
What did Mark Twain say? âᅵᅵᅵðµð² ðºð®ð» ððµðŒ ð±ðŒð²ð ð»ðŒð ð¿ð²ð®ï¿œï¿œï¿œ ðŽðŒðŒð± ð¯ðŒðŒðžð ðµð®ð ð»ðŒ ð®ð±ðð®ð»ðð®ðŽð² ðŒðð²ð¿ ððµð² ðºð®ð» ððµðŒ ð°ð®ð»'ð ð¿ð²ð®ð± ððµð²ðº.â Well done. Of course with audiobooks, you donât even have to read, you can just listen. But what if you could not just listen to a book? What if you could talk to it? What if you could ask it questions? You know, about the characters, the setting, the plot, the details in the third chapter that you forgot.
What I really mean is, what if the entire book could be dumped into an LLMâs context window? Well, actually, what if talking books were productized? I buy all my digital books from Amazon (doesnât everyone?). ðªðµð®ð ð¶ð³ ððºð®ððŒð» ðŒð³ð³ð²ð¿ð²ð± ðºð² ð® ðð®ð¹ðžð¶ð»ðŽ ð¯ðŒðŒðž ð®ð ð®ð» ð²ð ðð¿ð® ðŒðœðð¶ðŒð» ððµð®ð ð ðœð®ð ð³ðŒð¿? Maybe as part of my Kindle experience. Yes, of course, all permissions granted by the author and the publisher.
Then I could talk to my book. Letâs say itâs Hard Times by Charles Dickens. I could ask it questions:
⢠Remind me again, who is Thomas Gradgrind?
⢠What exactly is Gradgrindâs educational philosophy (âfacts, facts, facts!â)?
⢠Why did Louisa Gradgrind decide to marry Mr. Bounderby?
Of course, the challenge is in the cost. ð§ðŒðžð²ð»ð ð®ð¿ð²ð»âð ð³ð¿ð²ð². You canât just buy a âtalking bookâ and pay for it once. Every time you chatted with it, youâre paying for tokens, thereâd be a cost to Amazon that theyâd need to pass on to you. Easy fix though. Talking books could be a monthly subscription fee right? Like Kindle Unlimited.
That said, things might get tricky. You might just ask about the content. You might. ð¢ð¿ ððŒð ðºð¶ðŽðµð ð®ððž ðºðŒð¿ð² ðŒðœð¶ð»ð¶ðŒð»ð®ðð²ð± ðŸðð²ððð¶ðŒð»ð.
⢠Does Dickens mock education unfairly?
⢠Does Dickens romanticize poverty?
⢠Are facts really the enemy?
What do you think? Cool idea? Already being rolled out somewhere? What book would you choose first if you could talk to it?
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Remember the world before HTTP? ðªðµð®ð? ð¬ðŒð ð±ðŒð»âð? Thatâs because a) that was such a long time ago b) itâs an underlying protocol which we never notice c) it was essentially âpre-webâ, and who can remember that?
Well, itâs happening again. This time you get to experience it in real time. Introducing MCP. OK, ð¶ðâð ðð®ð ððŒðŒ ð²ð®ð¿ð¹ð ððŒ ð°ð®ð¹ð¹ ð¶ð ð® ðð¶ð»ð»ð²ð¿ but if you were to handicap it, itâs well on its way.
MCP. What is it? Well Anthropicâs calling it the "USB-C port for AI.â Basically itâs the protocol that hopes to standardize how AI systems (agents!) connect to outside data and tools and each other. Right now, integration's a bit of a mess. It is! ððŒðð ðŒð³ ð°ððððŒðº ð°ðŒð±ð², brittle non-standard connections, rework galore, ðð®ððð²ð± ðµðŒðð¿ð ð¿ð²ð¶ð»ðð²ð»ðð¶ð»ï¿œï¿œï¿œ ððµð² ððµð²ð²ð¹.
Hoping MCP takes flight, hereâs the highlightsâŠ
⢠ðšð»ð¶ðð²ð¿ðð®ð¹: One interface (to rule them all!) for AI integrations
⢠ððð»ð®ðºð¶ð°: Real-time discovery, negotiates capabilities between AI agents, tools
⢠ðŠð²ð°ðð¿ð²: Uses OAuth 2.0 authentication, granular permissions, isolation
⢠ð¢ðœð²ð»: Fully open-source (yes!), encourages community participation, innovation
⢠ðŠð°ð®ð¹ð®ð¯ð¹ð²: Scale away! Accommodates new integrations without complex coding
⢠ðŠðð®ðð²ð³ðð¹: Continuous context across interactions, agents can be context-aware
⢠ð ðŒð±ðð¹ð®ð¿: Reusable integrations, we're talking "plug-and-play" AI components
⢠ðŠððœðœðŒð¿ðð²ð±: Adopted by major industry leaders like OpenAI, Microsoft
⢠ðð±ð®ðœðð¶ðð²: Pick your language! (Python, Java, Kotlin, C#, etc.)
⢠ððððð¿ð²-ðœð¿ðŒðŒð³: Hoping... foundational, evolving, fundamental to "agentic AI"
OK, so whatâs the down side? ðªð²ð¹ð¹, ðð²âð¿ð² ð®ð¹ï¿œï¿œ ðžð¶ð»ð± ðŒð³ ð®ð³ð¿ð®ð¶ð± ðŒð³ ð¯ð²ððð¶ð»ðŽ ðŒð» ððµð² ðð¿ðŒð»ðŽ ðµðŒð¿ðð². Place your bets!
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