GPT 5.5 Arrives, DeepSeek V4 Drops, and the Compute War Intensifies

About this episode

The episode provides a full analysis of GPT 5.5 and highlights from the DeepSeek V4 paper, along with comparisons to Mythos and insights into the compute war.

GPT 5.5 full analysis, plus DeepSeek V4 paper highlights, comparisons with Mythos, a vibe-coded game w/ GPT Image 2, and 50 data-points you wouldn’t get from just reading the headlines. Chapters: 01:11 - GPT 5.5 Comparison 06:04 - Mythos Marketing 11:50 - Recursive Self-Improvement? 14:11 - Deepseek V4 18:03 - VibeCode Experiment Extravaganza 21:44 - The Scarce Compute Era https://80000hours.org/aiexplained OpenAI Benchmarks: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-5/ 5.5 System ...

People in this episode

Host: Philip

Topics covered

• GPT 5.5
• DeepSeek V4
• Mythos
• Compute War
• AI Analysis
• Game Development

Keywords

• GPT 5.5
• DeepSeek V4
• Mythos
• AI
• Compute War
• VibeCode
• Recursive Self-Improvement
• Data Points

Mentioned in this episode

Products: GPT 5.5, DeepSeek V4, Mythos

Books & works: VibeCode

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