#218: Anthropic IPO, Trump AI Executive Order, Rising AI Costs & OpenAI Merges Codex Into ChatGPT

**Paul Roetzer** (0:00)
The canary in the coal mine. AI research is the first discipline that AI will be applied to at this superhuman level, where it completely redefines the role of an AI researcher, and it's going to happen in the next 18 months. Whatever happens here, extract that out to whatever your profession is, and the same premise will then follow as soon as more resources, meaning money, gets thrown at your industry to do the same thing.
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Welcome to Episode 218 of The Artificial Intelligence Show. I'm your host, Paul Roetzer, along with my co-host, Mike Kaput. We're recording Monday, June 8th, right around 9 AM Eastern Time. Important timestamp this week because we expect a very busy week. We'll talk about some of the stuff that's coming, but we're definitely going to get insights into what the new series is going to look like from Apple. We are expecting multiple model releases, potentially from OpenAI and Anthropic. So it is going to be a very busy week, Mike. We're going to have our work cut out for us on episode 219 or 20 I don't know which one it is going to be because I think we may have another state of the industry one we're going to do, I think.

**Mike Kaput** (1:48)
Somewhere in here? That will be 220, so the next weekly will be 219

**Paul Roetzer** (1:52)
All right. So episode 219, buckle up. There's going to be a lot going on. So all right, we'll get through what we can. This week, it was a very busy week last week. Lots of big things related to IPO plans, executive orders from the government, more about the cost of intelligence and tokens, just a ton going on. It seems I thought we were going to get a little bit of a summer lull and that seems to not be happening, Mike.
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