OpenAI $100B Mega Round, AI Doctor Launch, Opus 4.6 Replacing Managers
Nothing is loaded from YouTube until you press play, and then without tracking cookies.
About this video
Video Description Join the NEAR Legion at nearlegion.com Legion Events Calendar: luma.com/near-legion Follow us on X: / nearlegion
#NEAR #nearprotocol #NEARAI #ai #ainews
Transcript
351 wordsCaptions as YouTube publishes them, usually machine-generated, so product and people names can be misheard.
- 0:00
Good morning, Legion. We're now under three days until the kickoff of NEARCON. As a reminder, we'll be doing a pitch contest on the first day of NEARCON. That's Monday, where you'll have the chance to win up to a thousand NEAR for giving the best three minute pitch on why NEAR Protocol is relevant to the future.
- 0:18
In other news, the AI Impact Summit is taking place in India right now. Some awkward moments between Anthropic and OpenAI. But that hasn't stopped OpenAI from dropping its first details on its latest funding round. OpenAI is finalizing its first commitments for a $100 billion mega round at an $830 billion valuation, with SoftBank anchoring at 30 billion, Amazon up to 50 billion and Nvidia up to 30 billion.
- 0:45
Next up, SuperPower has released their eye doctor for the first time as the founder, Max Marchione explains. The future is an AI that knows more about your body than any human ever could. He continues, if you mention you're training for a marathon that your sleep has been off but you cut out dairy last month, it remembers each conversation indefinitely.
- 1:05
They built a compaction memory system so that the 50th message is as informed as the first. What does he say you should watch for in the coming year? Over the next year, your eye doctor will be able to ingest data from your wearables, read your past medical records from other providers, and facilitate second opinions and prescriptions.
- 1:24
This is a very cool development in AI health. last but not least is the expected takeover of AI from consultants and middle level management. Claude Opus successfully managed a 50 person organization in a pilot run, closing 13 issues and assigning 12 issues to different team members across six different repositories.
- 1:43
Most interestingly, it knew when to escalate to a human for decisions. This comes right at the same time that Claude Pro is now available directly in PowerPoint. I just made consulting much easier and probably much cheaper. That's all for today. Folks will do this all again real soon.