OpenAI declares ‘code red’ as Google catches up in AI race

[ergophobe]

> phantom facts from Open AI

I was going to mention this in another thread. According to someone I was listening to (I can't remember who, but someone who makes a job of studying these things) ChatGPT 5 is a router and if you are on a free or cheap plan you get routed to cheaper models for many prompts or part of the response to the prompt and you don't get the "thinking" phase. Typically, if you're getting a full bio of your made-up Civil War hero ancestor, that's not coming from one of the latest models, even if you are on 5.

[rcjordan]

> if you're getting a full bio of your made-up Civil War hero ancestor, that's not coming from one of the latest models

I suspect that was G-serp Gemini before the lst upgrade.   Nope, it was Deepseek.

[rcjordan]

Companies Are Finally Paying for AI, and Paying Big - Business Insider

https://www.businessinsider.com/companies-finally-paying-ai-cio-survey-2025-12

[littleman]

I wish the had some real budget numbers in there.

[rcjordan]

Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/microsoft-scales-back-ai-goals-because-almost-nobody-is-using-copilot

[ergophobe]

What are the chances that having really good AI accelerates the arrival of quantum computing?

Microsoft is in a race with Google and some others on the quantum computing front. So what are the chances that the entity that wins the AI race also wins the quantum computing race?

[rcjordan]

ummm, FF on W11 updated. W11 updated (soon-ish after FF, IIRC).

I use the context menu heavily for nav and launching scripts & apps.  Yesterday, as I was hovering over an outbound link in an article, FF asked if I wanted an AI preview "All Done Locally."  I ok'd it and it downloaded an LLM and FF proceeded to show a pretty detailed pop-up of the link's landing page.  Gotta admit it was a nice feature.

Apparently, the onboard LLM is Gemini.  On some pages or sometimes just snippets of plain text Gemini asks if it should do some relevant whatever.  On full pages you can activate a left-hand column for Gemini.  Again, this can be plenty useful.

This how G's reach is going to dominate the others.  ...and this is FF. Imagine what'll happen on Chrome.

[rcjordan]

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> I use the context menu heavily for nav and launching scripts & apps.

I forgot to mention that AI is now available from the context menu, too.  G's covered the bases.

[Rupert]

Is that part of the paid service for you or the freebie available to everyone?

[rcjordan]

>paid

No, I think it is being rolled out to everyone.  I did not install any new apps or extensions --just updates.

>updates

I did happen to look at the "What's New" features of last week's Win11 update ...something I rarely do but thought it would be AI-heavy. It was, but Copilot on Edge, mostly. I closed Edge immediately after the update opened it and did not activate any of the features.

Debbie says G & FF must have coordinated this.

[rcjordan]

true-ish

[rcjordan]

re my FF AI added features

Maybe I'm early release?

Mozilla announces an AI 'window' for Firefox | The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/news/820196/mozilla-firefox-ai-window-browser