110: Today in AI: GPT 5.2 Beats Gemini 3, Disney Invests $1B in OpenAI, 400x Cost Drop

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First aired: 12 December 2025

Summary: OpenAI dropped GPT 5.2 this morning and it's properly good. I've been testing it out with a silly personal quest, trying to identify a childhood PC game from scattered memories, and it finally cracked it (Virus 2000, if you're curious). But beyond my trivial victories, the benchmarks are genuinely impressive. It's dominating the ARC-AGI-2 leaderboard, forcing them to literally extend the scale because previous models are now squished into irrelevance at the bottom. What's really wild though is the cost efficiency: a task that cost $4,500 to run a year ago with their O3 model now costs $11.64 with 5.2, and it gets better results. That's a 400x reduction in twelve months, which is the kind of exponential progress people miss when they're busy saying "AI can't do X."

The other massive news is Disney investing $1 billion into OpenAI with a proper intertwined deal. It's not just money - it's a three-year licensing agreement letting Sora generate videos with Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars characters that'll stream on Disney Plus. Disney's also becoming a major OpenAI customer, deploying ChatGPT across their business and building new tools with their APIs. The timing's a bit odd since Sora development is paused for eight weeks, but the commercial and legal implications are fascinating. This feels like battle lines being drawn, especially with Netflix eyeing Warner Brothers (and therefore DC) for what looks like their own AI play. It's Marvel versus DC, but backed by competing tech giants.

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—— Time Stamps ——

00:00 GPT 5.2 Is Here - First Impressions

01:33 ARC-AGI 2 Benchmarks: GPT 5.2 Dominates

03:01 Grok 4's Surprising Rise

04:03 What This Means for Real Work

04:24 400x Cheaper Than Last Year

06:26 Q&A: TikTok Shop & Social Commerce

07:18 Hallucination Rates Drop 40%

09:07 How LLMs Actually Work

10:05 The AI Energy Crisis

11:27 China's Strategic Power Advantage

12:40 Space Data Centers & SpaceX

13:35 Q&A: Using Multiple LLMs

14:14 Best Vibe Coding Platforms

15:55 Cursor's New Visual Editor

17:14 Warning: IDE System Access

17:41 GDP-Val: AI vs Human Performance

19:37 Task-by-Task Breakdown

20:25 The Scary 70% Threshold

21:37 AGI Timeline Reality Check

23:17 Q&A: Amazon's AI Strategy

26:04 The AI Skills Divide

28:07 Q&A: Zapier vs Make vs n8n

29:42 Building Automations with Cursor

32:17 Choosing Your Vibe Coding Tool

33:57 Google AI Studio - Free Building

34:35 Learning Path: Lovable to Cursor

36:49 Claude Code Integration

37:38 Why Build First, Learn Later

38:46 Can You Ship from Lovable?

39:59 App Security Basics

41:35 Disney's $1B OpenAI Investment

43:20 Netflix Shorts & Streaming Wars

45:52 Wrap Up & Community

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