#226: OpenAI’s Rogue Model, Kimi K3, Open Weights Letter & Demis Hassabis Calls for AI Regulatory Body

**Paul Roetzer** (0:00)
I just think it's so early, and the risks are so high, that companies that are racing into this world are just, they're opening themselves up to tremendous risks.
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Welcome to Episode 226 of The Artificial Intelligence Show. I'm your host, Paul Roetzer, along with my co-host Mike Kaput. We are back after a week off, which, man, I feel like the three days leading up to now, just like a week's worth of content. Easily, yeah. Yeah, I mean, I'm not even exaggerating. So it's 9 a.m. Eastern time on Monday, July 27th. Mike put together the outline for the podcast. I want to say Thursday, maybe, Mike, before you left for vacay. You were out Friday and Saturday.

**Mike Kaput** (1:18)
Yeah.

**Paul Roetzer** (1:19)
So he put this together, and between the time he put it together on Thursday and the time I looked at it Monday morning at about 6:30 a.m., a major, maybe the biggest thing of the year happened, and it took over. So I was literally in there this morning at 7 a.m. I'm like, hey, Mike, I think we got to swap these main topics. Let's move this way. So this is totally on the fly. So it's one of those where I feel like this is an episode we'll probably refer back to quite often. So today's episode's gonna cover some extremely important macro level topics. So we're gonna get into the risks of autonomous agents, open source versus closed proprietary models, which is gonna be a very important element of this threaded throughout the main topics, the progress and impact of Chinese AI models, and the implications from all of this on decisions that are gonna be made around government regulation. And that's just the first three topics.
Like the AI product and funding update at the end is stupid. Like I say this often, but literally every one of those, like Opus 5 launching didn't even make one of our like main or rapid fire topics. That's how crazy the week was. So as always, we are going to do our best to break things down in a politically neutral way, as well as kind of like an industry neutral way, because there are very strong beliefs right now around what is right and what is wrong, and we are going to do our best to sort of thread the needle here and just present the facts. And honestly, like when it comes to the open source, open weights conversation, I'm not even sure where I fall. Like some of this is just because I'm still trying to figure out myself, like what my own beliefs are in some of this. So we're going to try and take some rather complex and nuanced topics and make them as approachable and actionable as possible. The biggest story of the week and maybe the year started on Friday with Jensen Wong's first tweet ever. And this is the topic I was referring to that just sort of like took over Twitter for sure.
So it's his first ever post on X and it was supporting a letter from Microsoft that Satya Nadella had published around the same time. That was titled, Open Weights and American AI Leadership. So that is going to be our third main topic today. And the only reason it's not leading off is because topics one and two build on why NVIDIA, OpenAI, Google Meta, SpaceX and others felt the need to sign on to this Microsoft letter. So the letter itself is the most important thing that came out of the last two weeks. And when I messaged Mike this morning, I was like, it's probably the most important thing of the month and maybe of the year. And so we're going to do our best to explain the context as to why. Bear with us. These are some, as I mentioned, complex and nuanced topics.
I actually spent a good portion of my Saturday listening to an Ezra Klein podcast about Xi Jinping because I was trying to comprehend what China is doing and why. And I was like, by Saturday night, I was so mentally drained. It's really big stuff. So, okay. So that's the tee up to what's going on today.