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Transforming Supply Chains with AI: What’s happening now and what’s next

OpenAI finds Chinese surveillance concerns, DeepSeek goes open source, Microsoft’s new Magma robot AI model and more!

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February 21, 2025

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🎙 Daily Podcast Episode: Supply chains may not be important to you but it should be. It affects everything we use. We explain how AI will reshape supply chains. Give it a listen.

🕵️‍♂️ Fresh Finds: Arizona looks to ban AI in medical reviews, Chinese universities launching DeepSeek classes and Apple Intelligence expanding to more languages. Read on for Fresh Finds.

🗞 Byte Sized Daily AI News: OpenAI finds Chinese surveillance concerns, DeepSeek goes open source and Microsoft’s new Magma robot AI model. For that and more, read on for Byte Sized News.

🚀 AI In 5: We found some features inside the Google Gemini Live app that no one is talking about. See it here

🧠 Learn & Leveraging AI: We break down how AI is changing supply chain and explain how it’ll affect you. Keep reading for that!

↩️ Don’t miss out: Did you miss our last newsletter? We talked about OpenAI hitting 400M weekly users, Le Chat reaching 1M downloads in 14 days and Figure AI unveiling an AI model for humanoid robots. Check it here!

 Transforming Supply Chains with AI: What’s happening now and what’s next 🏭

You might not think about the supply chain every day. But every product you use or service you rely on is 100% impacted by the global supply chain.

And AI is completely reshaping how it works.

Julian Harris, CEO and founder of RobobAI joins us to dive deep

Join the conversation and ask Jordan questions on AI here.

Also on the pod today:

• Automation and Robotics in Logistics 🧠
• Challenges in the Supply Chain Industry 🤔
• Data Quality and Management 📊

It’ll be worth your 29 minutes:

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Here’s our favorite AI finds from across the web:

New AI Tool Spotlight – Polymet is an AI product designer, Magic Inspector is an AI web test automation platform and Nuvio provides AI-powered financial management.

AI Governance – Arizona is looking to ban using AI in reviewing medical claims.

Apple – Apple Intelligence is expanding to more languages on devices in April.

AI in Society – Chinese universities are launching DeepSeek courses.

AI Startups - Search startup Genspark has raised $100 million to compete with Google.

Future of Work - People are most worried about AI replacing these two jobs.

AI Models – OpenRouter’s AI models are now available for use with Google Sheets.

AI in Media - Rapper J. Cole is expressing his fears about AI in his latest song.

1. OpenAI Finds Chinese AI Surveillance Concerns 🧐

OpenAI has uncovered a Chinese AI-driven surveillance operation designed to monitor anti-Chinese sentiment on Western social media platforms. Dubbed "Peer Review," this tool was identified when its developers used OpenAI technologies to troubleshoot their code. Ben Nimmo of OpenAI highlighted this as the first known AI-powered surveillance system of its kind, raising alarm over AI's potential misuse for espionage and disinformation.

This discovery underscores the growing need for vigilance and safeguards in AI development.

2. DeepSeek Goes Open Source for AI Community 📂

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has announced plans to open source parts of its online services code next week. As reported by Kyle Wiggers, this initiative, dubbed “open source week,” will see five battle-tested code repositories released to the public.

DeepSeek's decision is stirring the competitive waters, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledging the impact on their technological lead. This move could democratize AI development and offer new opportunities for tech enthusiasts and companies eager to innovate.

3. OpenAI Expands Operator Globally 🌏

OpenAI is extending its AI agent, Operator, to ChatGPT Pro users in countries like Australia, Brazil, and the U.K., with most regions covered except the EU and a few others. The tool has been available in the U.S. since January and allows users to perform tasks such as booking tickets and making reservations.

Priced at $200 per month, Operator is currently accessible only via a dedicated web page but is set to expand across all ChatGPT clients.

4. Microsoft's Magma: AI Model For Robot Intelligence 🤖

Microsoft just unveiled Magma, an innovative AI model set to transform how robots perceive and interact with the world. According to Microsoft Research, this cutting-edge model integrates vision and language processing, enabling robots to manage complex tasks by simultaneously processing videos, images, and robotics data.

Developed in collaboration with renowned universities, Magma marks Microsoft's ambitious step toward "agentic AI," a system designed to autonomously plan and execute user tasks.

5. Big Tech's AI Spending Spree 💰

In the latest chapter of Big Tech's quarterly earnings saga, Meta emerged as the sole star among the top three ad giants, surpassing analyst expectations while Alphabet and Amazon fell short. According to Francis Scialabba, these tech titans are doubling down on AI investments, with Alphabet planning a $75 billion spend on data centers, Meta eyeing $65 billion for AI and core business, and Amazon leading the pack with a $100 billion focus on AI services.

Despite Amazon's first-ever revenue edge over Walmart in Q4, its outlook disappointed investors, mirrored by Alphabet's slump due to slowing cloud sales. Meanwhile, advertising analyst Brian Wieser forecasts a slowdown in US ad revenue growth, adding a cautious note to the tech-laden optimism.

Google Gemini Live: 3 Game-Changing Features Revealed!

There’s some features inside the Google Gemini Live app on iPhone that no one is really talking about.

We reveal what they are and how to use them.

🦾How You Can Leverage:

Remember 2016? 

That's when supply chain AI meant predicting customer churn and energy costs. 

Basic stuff. 

Julian Harris, CEO and founder of RobobAI, told us exactly how the supply chain game changed since the GenAI boom. 

LLMs didn't just move the goalposts - they straight up changed the sport.

Traditional AI? 

It's been cleaning supply chain data since forever.

But generative AI just unlocked something wild: seeing through your entire supply chain. Not just tier 1 suppliers. Not just tier 2. The WHOLE thing.

And guess what? 

Julian said some of the biggest companies on Earth can't tell you their supply chain spend within a BILLION dollars. Not a typo.

Whoa. 

Here’s what you need to know that’s happening at the corner of AI Avenue and supply chain street. 

1 – The End Game of Manual Supply Chain Management ❌

Your accounts payable team might be entering "stuff" as a line item 500 times a day. They're drowning in invoices. Meanwhile, your procurement team is trying to analyze supplier relationships using spreadsheets from 2019.

This isn't working anymore.

It's coming for white-collar supply chain jobs. Those category managers analyzing which suppliers to keep? That's prime AI territory.

Try This:

First, identify which of your invoice processors are entering generic descriptions - that's where you're bleeding data. 

Next, pick your messiest supplier category and map every single touchpoint. Finally, calculate how many hours your team spends manually entering data. That number? It's about to shock you.

2 – The Death of Legacy ERPs (For Real This Time) 😵

Julian said Oracle and SAP roughly own the ERP world with a 50-50 split. 

But their code is older than most TikTok stars. Loz. 

Future pure AI players are about to eat their lunch.

Know what's wild? When your supplier says they use SAP, there's a solid chance they're running a version from a decade ago. With customizations. Lots of them.

The next wave isn't about bolting AI onto old systems. It's about AI-first platforms that make those legacy systems look like dial-up internet.

Try This:

Map every single ERP system in your company - including the forgotten one from that acquisition three years ago. 

Then track how many manual data transfers happen between systems daily. Finally, calculate your error rate on supplier classifications. If it's above 2%, you're in the danger zone.

3 – The Supply Chain Transparency Revolution ⤴️

Want to know something scary?

Those batteries you ordered contain cobalt. Two-thirds of Earth's cobalt comes from Congo mines. Some use child labor.

But you'd never know - your system only shows you ordered from "Battery Supplier Inc" in Chicago.

Generative AI is changing that game. Not with chatbots. Not with code generation.

 But with the ability to trace every component through your entire supply chain.

Try This:

Start with your top 20 suppliers. Map their supplier network two levels deep.

Can't do it? That's your first red flag.

Then audit your supplier diversity data - if you can't tell how much you're spending with veteran-owned businesses within 24 hours, your system needs an overhaul.

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Numbers to watch

$530 Million

With Genspark’s recent funding round, the search startup is now valued at $530 million.

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