The rapid commoditization of AI models continues, even with a groundbreaking new approach known as inference-time compute.

Over the past month, we've seen a rapid cadence of notable AI-related announcements and releases from both Google and OpenAI, and it's been making the AI community's head spin. It has also poured fuel on the fire of the OpenAI-Google rivalry, an accelerating game of one-upmanship taking place unusually close to the Christmas holiday.

OpenAI Testing New Reasoning AI Models: o3 and o3-mini; Could They Compete with Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Mode?

Early testers are playing with Google's new Veo 2 and finding it bests OpenAI's Sora when it comes to accuracy.

Most notably, there’s co-founder Elon Musk, who now runs rival startup xAI, and is in the midst of a heated legal battle with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

Microsoft-backed OpenAI on Monday said that it was opening access to ChatGPT Search to all users, having previously limited the feature to subscribers. That’s more than 300 mill

OpenAI's o1 Model vs. Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental. However, it was OpenAI who, yet again, went ahead to deliver its "reasoning" model in the market with its in

Google announces Veo 2, a generative AI video competitor to Open AI's Sora. Meanwhile, account creation for Sora is back after being halted temporarily.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai sees a slowdown while OpenAI CEO Sam Altman envisions acceleration to generative artificial intelligence next year, according to the New York Times.

Here are some screenshots from Google Veo 2 generated video.

OpenAI Testing New o3 Reasoning Models Amid Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Mode Launch! Some animals are truly terrifying, and we have good reasons to keep a respectful distance from them. Nobody wants to tangle with a crocodile, shark, or coyote, but are there any harmless animals in nature?