Ads in the Chat Window

from Pretrained Hosted by Pierce Freeman & Richard Diehl Martinez

The day of reckoning: OpenAI is putting ads in ChatGPT. Pierce and Rich unpack how it actually works, why the shopping use case might be the wrong starting point, and what happens when sub-agents try to sell things to each other. Also: OpenClaw's Peter Steinberger gets acquihired by OpenAI, Waymo builds a world model for self-driving, Mistral's Voxtral takes on Whisper, and the model release arms race hits a new peak.

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Ads in the Chat Window

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Chapters

0:23 Intro
0:49 OpenAI Brings Ads to ChatGPT
21:22 OpenClaw Joins OpenAI
33:37 Waymo and DeepMind's World Models
49:06 Mistral's Voxtral Speech-to-Text
1:02:51 GPT 5.3 Codex and Opus Drop Together
1:11:25 Outro
1:11:53 Post Show Banter

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