Kimi K3 & AI’s Price War, What Happened To Google?, OpenAI’s Partner Trouble
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Kimi K3 & AI’s Price War, What Happened To Google?, OpenAI’s Partner Trouble

B2Upper-intermediateJuly 17, 20261 hr

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Kimi K3's benchmark breaking results 2) How Kimi K3 fits alongside MuseSpark 1.1 and Grok 4.5 3) What are OpenAI and Anthropic's advantages today? 4) Is the price of frontier intelligence about to drop? 5) It's all about the product now 6) Satya Nadella's Reverse Information Paradox 7) What is happening at Google? 8) Is Google too focused on 'Flash' models 9) Apple's lawsuit vs. OpenAI 10) OpenAI's boneheaded espionage 11) Why does OpenAI struggle to maintain good relationships with partners? --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us...

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The walls are coming down for OpenAI and Anthropic as cheaper models and new open-source competitors from China challenge their ability to make a profit. Google, meanwhile, delays its flagship model and seems to be spinning its wheels. And why can't OpenAI keep its partners from hating it? That's coming up on a Big Technology Podcast Friday edition right after this.

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Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition, where we break down the news in our traditional cool-headed and nuanced format. It's the Kimi K3 episode. We're going to talk all about this new challenger from China, a 2.8 trillion parameter model

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