Algorithm
This week, we are going to interact with Orackle about Openai’s big deal, what does it mean to what it means for their current alignment with Microsoft, and why Xai let an entire team of “using generalist AI Tutors” go.
Openai’s $ 300 billion bets on Orackle’s Cloud Empire
Hold on your GPUS, friends! Openai signed a $ 300 billion, a five -year deal with Oracle for computing power for AI Infrastructure of OPEAI starting in 2027. Oracle stock increased (but has been stabilized since then). Honestly, this is the kind of number that surprises you if someone accidentally added an additional zero. But no, it is real, and it is part of the ambitious $ 500 billion project Stargate Infrastructure Push. What is wild here: The deal determines the foundation to develop a 4.5 gigawatt of US data center capacity. In that perspective, it is more power than some of the whole countries.
After announcing the deal, Oracle’s stock started 43% – although it has been balanced since then. It is an attractive axis for Oracle, being one of the largest cloud infrastructure providers, now to use access to NVIDIA’s AI chip hardware to form further partnership with Google, Meta and XAI. For example, Oracle says that the Gemini models of Google will soon be on their cloud infrastructure.
XAI’s Friday night massacre and a billionaire axis
Talking about pivotes, Elon Musk’s XAI has allegedly discontinued about 500 workers from its data anotation team (these are the people who work with training groukes otherwise) This Friday night – because nothing says that ‘Strategic Reality’ likes to firing through email on one Friday evening? The potential story is that to improve the training of XAI Groke, it is shifting from “generalist AI Tutor” to “expert AI Tutors”, which means to let everyone go already. The company claims that it is planning to appoint 10 times more expert AI tutors, which feels great if you are to be a specialist instead of one of 500 people, who just get out of one job. The time seems especially cruel – workingers were told that they would be paid through their contracts or by 30 November, but their system was immediately cut. Nothing like digital exile is actually nothing to run a training message home.
Microsoft and Openai: It’s complicated (but, really complex)
It was strange. OpenAII and Microsoft have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the next phase of their partnership. We are actively working to finalize the contractual terms in a certain agreement, “A post on X on X a few days ago says a lot without saying. In fact, it looks like a desperate call for some attention. In a certain agreement, contractual terms are not yet in place, and yet, some were to be announced.
If you go slightly deep then reference is understood here. While the nuances are still emerging, there is some level of friction with the desire for the independence of OpenAII, and Microsoft on a large -scale investment back seriously harasses the expectations of serious partnership. What is attractive how it plays against the background of that orac deal, later not known to play well with Microsoft. Openai does not want to depend on any single infrastructure provider by diversifying its cloud partnership, even sends a very clear message about investing billions in your company.
Ready
What is this enthusiasm about Nano Banana, a surname for Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash Imaging AI Tool, is it really stuck?
Sometimes quirkiest codenames hide the most useful tools. Google’s latest image-editing model, Gemini 2.5 flash image, Nano banana name during testing, has proved to be quite popular on social media in the last few days.
How to use it: Nano banana is designed for natural language editing. Instead of wrestling with complex photoshop workflows, you can simply type “background a sunset” or “change this dress into a business suit” and type it is complete. Initial users emphasize the model that it is better to keep characters and objects during editing, which is a great thing for the creators that require repeated shots or visuals, which include often generated objects or characters. The model is available through the Gemini app, as well as Mithun API for developers, Google AI Studio and Wartax AI.
Why it matters: The main experience is designed to be sharp and user friendly, and Google is doing syntid watermarking layer, so each generated or edited image carries an invisible authenticity stamp. In practice, the nano banana background swaps, changes in style, and multi-image gimmation. Mudra and angle editing is possible, but still there is little hit-or-miss, there is still not a full 3D studio. Nevertheless, the promise is clear. Instead of waiting for 10–15 seconds for clunk edit, you get some light, responsible and fun to use surprisingly. The fun name may stick, but the real story is how accessible, reliable image editing on Google scale-a smart counterweight for the race for weapons. Should the choice of Adobe and Canva be worried?
Thinking
“You often talk about some of our contestants, you know, these modern systems that we have today has PhD intelligence. I think it’s nonsense, they are not PhD intelligence. Success that is still necessary ” – Sir Demis Hasabis, All -in Summit.
Reference: Sir Damis is perhaps the only AI leader who could carry the head of PhD intelligence confusion, and bubble AI was very happy to burst by bursting by bursting (along with increasing their evaluation and funding). The CEO of Deepmind made a detailed statement, in which everyone should make all in AI World Pose and Think, and it is not clear from saying that today’s chatbots are completely nonsense with any claims that tell about their PhD-level intelligence. And honestly, it is about time that someone with the credibility of Sir Damis said that it is loud. This realism about AI capacity inflation comes in a significant moment, when we are drowning in marketing materials, which declare each new model closer to the performance or more, while whoever spends serious time with these systems knows that they are luxurious and completely clules together which will never be human PhD.
A reality check: The problem with “PhD intelligence” framing is not that it is wrong, it is a basic misunderstanding of what the intellect is really. It is not just about knowledge accumulation, but also the development of decisions, with the ability to navigate uncertainty in situations, as well as the ability of real insight within a particular domain. Current AI systems are essentially sophisticated pattern matching engines that have been tuned to give outputs (or at least we think they are; The way we thought that in 2008 a Nokia 5800 XPRESSMUSIC was a ‘smartphone’) without any understanding of human understanding. Hasabis considers it the best because Deepmind has been at the forefront of achievements and honest assessment. When the team behind Alfago, Alfafold and Mithun says that we are overseeing the current capabilities, it is expertise. And we hear better. Unrealistic expectations, wrong beliefs and risks that have long -term implications. More than this, it prevents us from seeing what these systems are really good. Current large language models are powerful tools for pattern recognition, lesson production and some types of logic. Nevertheless, they are not human-equal intelligence, and they pretend that they are, only stand us in a fool’s heaven.
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