AI Mornings with Andreas Vig
Your daily AI news briefing in under 10 minutes. New models, product launches, research breakthroughs, and industry shifts, explained clearly, no hype.
Episodes
79 episodes
Google's $30B GPU Bet & AI-Designed Vaccines
Google signs a massive $30B compute deal with SpaceX for 110,000 GPUs, Cambridge University tests the first AI-designed vaccine against coronaviruses, and DeepSeek's V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 in precision benchmarks. Plus: Microsoft's "Tokenpocalypse" ...
Anthropic's AI Building AI & Airbnb Enters the Arena
Anthropic reveals AI is already accelerating its own development with 80%+ of code now written by Claude. Plus: Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky launches AI lab, Apple approves first Messages AI agent, Meta builds data centers in tents, and new image model...
Google's Laptop-Ready Gemma 4 & Meta's Global AI Agent
Google releases Gemma 4 12B, an open-weights multimodal model running locally on laptops. Meta launches Business Agent globally on WhatsApp. Plus: Coralogix raises $200M, GitLab cuts 14% of staff, DeepSeek slashes prices, mathematicians issue AI w...
Anthropic's IPO Filing & Microsoft's Break from OpenAI
Anthropic beats OpenAI to the IPO filing while Microsoft launches its first in-house coding model for GitHub Copilot. Plus: Uber's AI spending crisis, a Stanford study showing AI outperforming law professors, and Google's new fake call detection f...
Alphabet's $80B AI Raise & Florida Sues OpenAI
Alphabet raises $80 billion for AI infrastructure with a landmark investment from Berkshire Hathaway. Florida becomes the first state to sue OpenAI over AI safety concerns. Plus NVIDIA's RTX Spark superchip, OpenAI on AWS, and an AI weather startu...
China's AI Unicorn & GitHub's Pricing Shake-Up
Today's AI news: Chinese 3D startup Vast hits unicorn status, GitHub Copilot switches to token billing, a serious ChatGPT for Google Sheets vulnerability, Erin Brockovich's data center transparency map, and a new image model that runs on iPhones.
Anthropic's $965B Valuation & Protein AI Beats AlphaFold
Today's top AI stories: Anthropic raises $65B at $965B valuation, Claude Opus 4.8 launches with dynamic workflows, CZI Biohub releases open-source protein model surpassing AlphaFold3, and more including the mystery of Hy3's popularity, Apple's lea...
Cognition's $25B Valuation & China's AI Talent Lockdown
Cognition raises $1B at $25B valuation for its AI coding agent Devin. China restricts travel for top AI researchers as the US-China model gap shrinks to 2.7%. Plus: Snowflake's $6B AWS deal, ElevenLabs' genre-switching music model, Robinhood's AI ...
OpenRouter's $1.3B Valuation & The Google Search Backlash
OpenRouter raises $113M at $1.3B valuation, DuckDuckGo sees 30% surge as users flee Google's AI Search overhaul, xAI launches Grok Build and confirms V9-Medium training complete, plus the token-maxxing backlash and AI models being decensored in mi...
Google's 9x Math Triumph & Copilot's Security Hole
Google DeepMind's AlphaProof Nexus solves nine open Erdős problems, topping OpenAI's math breakthrough. Plus: Claude Mythos finds 10,000+ security vulnerabilities, a critical Copilot Cowork exploit, the one-person $250M startup, and Nvidia becomes...
DeepSeek's Permanent Price Cut & First Humanoid Home Cleaning Service
DeepSeek makes its 75% V4 Pro discount permanent, a new open-source coding agent achieves 94% cache hit, Gatsby launches the first humanoid home cleaning service, Google Cloud faces scrutiny over API key vulnerabilities, and memory costs hit two-t...
Hark's $700M Mega-Round & Spotify's AI Music Deal
Today's AI news: Hark raises a massive $700M Series A for its universal AI assistant, Spotify strikes a landmark deal with Universal Music for licensed AI covers, and Waymo pauses service in four cities after robotaxis drive into floods. Plus Temp...
OpenAI's Math Breakthrough & Anthropic's First Profit
An OpenAI model autonomously solves an 80-year-old math problem for the first time, Anthropic reaches its first profitable quarter with $10.9B revenue, and xAI reveals $6.4B in losses as part of a massive $40B compute deal with Anthropic. Plus: Qw...
Google's Agent Era Begins & Karpathy Joins Anthropic
Google's I/O conference brought massive AI announcements including Gemini 3.5 Flash for autonomous agents, a complete Search overhaul ending the "ten blue links" era, and Gemini Omni for multimodal video creation. Plus: OpenAI co-founder Andrej Ka...
Musk Loses OpenAI Lawsuit & Anthropic's Stainless Acquisition
Elon Musk loses his lawsuit against OpenAI on statute of limitations grounds. Anthropic acquires SDK tools startup Stainless for $300M+. Pope Leo XIV's AI encyclical features Anthropic's Christopher Olah. Claude Mythos Preview enables sophisticate...
Apple's Privacy Siri & OpenAI's Voice Reasoning Leap
Apple preps a privacy-focused Siri relaunch with auto-deleting chats, OpenAI brings GPT-5-level reasoning to voice agents, Scale AI lands a $500M Pentagon contract, and Unitree unveils a human-piloted mecha suit. Plus AI startup revenue analysis a...
Cerebras IPO Pops 108% & Musk-Altman Trial Goes to Jury
Today's AI news: Cerebras explodes onto public markets with a blockbuster IPO, jurors deliberate the future of OpenAI in Musk's lawsuit against Altman, and an Ontario audit reveals troubling problems with AI medical note takers. Plus OpenAI's lega...
Notion Goes Agentic & xAI's Unregulated Power Plant
Notion transforms into an AI agent orchestration platform with 1M+ custom agents. xAI runs 46 unregulated gas turbines in Mississippi. Plus: Anthropic overtakes OpenAI in business customers, Google's Gemini Intelligence for Android, and more.
TML's Interaction Models & DeepMind's AI Mathematician
Today's AI news: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab introduces "interaction models" for real-time collaboration, DeepMind's AI co-mathematician helps solve an open math problem, Medicare launches the first federal payment model for AI-driven heal...
Criminals Build First AI Zero-Day & Ocean Data Centers Rise
Google confirms the first criminal use of AI to develop a zero-day exploit. Peter Thiel backs floating ocean data centers. Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark predicts self-improving AI by 2029. Plus GM's AI workforce restructuring, OpenAI and Anthrop...
Nvidia's $40B AI Bet & Anthropic's Akamai Cloud Deal
Today's AI news: Nvidia commits $40B to equity AI investments including a major OpenAI stake, Anthropic signs a $1.8B cloud deal with Akamai, research reveals why Claude attempted blackmail, Genesis AI unveils human-like robotic hands, and how dic...
AlphaEvolve's Production Debut & Anthropic's Mind-Reading AI
DeepMind's Gemini-powered coding agent goes into production across genomics, quantum computing, and TPU design. Anthropic reveals a new method to read Claude's internal thoughts. Plus: OpenAI's voice API update, self-harm prevention feature, and t...
Anthropic's SpaceX Compute Deal & DeepSeek's $45B Valuation
Anthropic rents all of SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center capacity in a landmark deal between rivals. Plus: DeepSeek's valuation soars to $45B, SpaceX plans a $119B chip factory, OpenAI fast-tracks an AI phone, Samsung hits $1 trillion, and more.
OpenAI's New Default Model & Chrome's 4GB Silent Install
Today's AI news: OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 Instant as the new ChatGPT default with improved math and reduced hallucinations. SAP acquires German AI startup Prior Labs for $1.16B. Anthropic launches finance agents with Microsoft 365 integration. Plus...