AI In NYC EP. 11: 2025 Year End Wrap-Up Episode with Jason Hiner (The Deep View)

Jason Hiner, Editor-in-Chief of The Deep View, joins AI In NYC hosts Rob May and Ryan Eppley to break down the biggest AI stories of 2025; from DeepSeek's January shockwave to Google's stunning November comeback with Gemini 3. MAJOR MOMENTS WE COVER: DeepSeek's China Breakthrough

- How they trained frontier models on a fraction of resources and changed the efficiency conversation forever OpenAI's O3 Reasoning Model

- The inference-time compute revolution and what it means for 2026 The Great Talent War

- $100M packages, brain drain, and why some engineers turned down Meta's money GPT-5's Disappointment

- What OpenAI's loss of Ilya Sutskever and Mira Murati really meant Google's Redemption Arc - From "toast" to Wall Street darling in 6 months Stargate & the $500B AI Factory

- Circular financing, Oracle deals, and what's really happening The Bubble Question - Why Jason thinks we're NOT in a capital-B bubble (but there are small ones)

KEY INSIGHTS:

1. 95% of enterprise AI deployments still aren't profitable (MIT study)
2. Only 13% of the world uses generative AI—massive growth ahead
3. World models will be the "AI agents" of 2026
4. Multi-model systems replacing single LLM approaches
5. AMD is coming for Nvidia's dominance

🔮 2026 PREDICTIONS:

End of "one model to rule them all" thinking AGI/superintelligence labels will fade as overhype The year of AI optimization and efficiency OpenAI's overstretched focus problem will show cracks 🗽

NEW YORK QUESTION: All three hosts agree: Times Square is the worst tourist trap in NYC GUEST: Jason Hiner - Editor-in-Chief & Chief Content Officer, The Deep View Subscribe: https://subscribe.thedeepview.com/

AI IN NYC HOSTS: Rob May - Co-founder & CEO, NeuroMetric Ryan Eppley - Co-founder & CEO, Root Access 📍 Recorded in NYC | December 18th 2025 🎙️ AI In NYC Podcast - Your source for AI insights from the applied AI capital Subscribe for weekly AI insights from New York City's tech scene! #AIInNYC #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #DeepSeek #OpenAI #Google #Gemini #AIBubble #NYCTech #MachineLearning #JasonHiner #TheDeepView #2025Recap #AIAgents #WorldModels #Podcast