Welcome to our weekly briefing on R&D headlines shaping technology, energy, manufacturing, and more. In this edition, we continue to explore how the Chinese startup DeepSeek is potentially rewriting AI training assumptions, the potential ripple effects on global energy demand, new tariffs upending automotive supply chains, plus highlights from the Idaho National Laboratory, Procter &…
Just how big of a deal is OpenAI’s o3 model anyway?
A model that scored 87.5% on the ARC-AGI Semi-Private Evaluation set, OpenAI’s new o3 system has sparked conversation—and some controversy—about whether artificial general intelligence (AGI) might be near at hand. A growing number of observers frame the news as evidence that computing systems are poised to handle an increasing share of STEM-related tasks, particularly in…