🔮 The race to AI assistants; OpenAI exodus; GLP-1, risky films, insect protein ++ #474

An insider perspective on AI and exponential technologies

Hi, I’m Azeem Azhar. In this week’s edition, we explore Google and OpenAI product announcements and evaluate if they live up to the companies’ substantial investments.

In the rest of today’s issue: 

1. Need to know: OpenAI loses the yin to its yang

   The latest departures at OpenAI could deepen a monoculture at the leading AI company.

2. Today in data: Trade vs. the energy transition
   The US is going to set a massive 100% tariff on Chinese exports, potentially harming its energy transition in the process.

3. Opinion: Batteries as key transition technology

   In this week’s deep dive for members, we do a survey of the state of the key technology in the energy transition – batteries, and in particular lithium-ion batteries.