OpenAI looks set to debut their Operator system, and some leaks are out. At the same time Deepseek R1 releases some numbers, and Sam Altman says he might have been wrong before, and now anticipates a 'fast take-off'. Plus two papers to give you an idea of what a super-agent might be decent at doing, some more exclusive article analysis and much more. Who said anything else is happening today... 80,000 Hours Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCafjal1QYJ3rb0Y9xZk1Ezg Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2WzJwXWBDnn4iZ7odKwDib AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 01:13 - Pro Cost and OpenAI Operator 04:00 - Agent Benchmarks Being Targeted 07:48 - Fast Take-off, Altman 08:48 - Altman flip-flops 10:02 - Deepseek R1 First Reaction Altman ‘100x expectations out of control’: https://x.com/sama/status/1881258443669172470 OpenAI Operator Table: https://x.com/btibor91/status/1881285255266750564 WebVoyager: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.13919 OSWorld: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.07972 Axios Exclusive 1 (Super-Agent): https://www.axios.com/2025/01/19/ai-superagent-openai-meta?s=09 Axios Exclusive 2: https://www.axios.com/2025/01/18/biden-sullivan-ai-race-trump-china Deepseek R1 Numbers: https://x.com/deepseek_ai/status/1881318130334814301 Does 1.5B outperform 3.5 Sonnet on Math?: https://x.com/reach_vb/status/1881319500089634954 Deepseek R1 (deepseek-reasoner) Pricing: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing/ Altman Fast Takeoff: https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1879100390840697191 OpenAI Economic Blueprint: https://cdn.openai.com/global-affairs/ai-in-america-oai-economic-blueprint-20250113.pdf Target is Long-horizon Tasks: https://x.com/karinanguyen_/status/1879576037249667520 Support Regulations: https://www.techemails.com/p/elon-musk-and-openai https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/technology/openai-altman-artificial-intelligence-regulation.html Donation: https://qz.com/sam-altman-donate-million-zuckerberg-bezos-donald-trump-1851721035 Amodei on Regulations by 2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugvHCXCOmm4 ‘Feel the AGI’: https://x.com/polynoamial?lang=en GPT-5 and o-series merger: https://x.com/sama/status/1880358749187240274 o1 Thinks in Chinese: https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/14/openais-ai-reasoning-model-thinks-in-chinese-sometimes-and-no-one-really-knows-why/ Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/