Episode 42: Paris AI Summit, Altman's "Three Observations," and Anthropic's Economic Index

Live from Paris, Tim Hwang is at the AI Action Summit 2025. In episode 42 of Mixture of Experts, we welcome Anastasia Stasenko, CEO and Co-Founder of pleias along with our veteran experts Marina Danilevsky and Chris Hay. Last week, we touched on some potential conversations at the Paris AI Summit, this week we recap what actually happened. Is AI safety improving Globally? Next, for our paper of the week, we breakdown s1: Simple test-time scaling. Then, Sam Altman is back with another blog, “Three Observations,” what do our experts have to say? Finally, what can we learn from Anthropic’s Economic Index? All that and more on today’s Mixture of Experts. 

00:01 – Intro 

00:42 – Paris AI Summit 

11:10 – s1: Simple test-time scaling 

19:32 – Sam Altman’s “Three Observations” 

30:41 – Anthropic’s Economic Index 

The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other organization or entity. 

Resources:

Read the paper about s1: Simple test-time scaling: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.19393

Read Sam Altman's "Three Observations": https://blog.samaltman.com/three-observations

Read Anthropic's Economic Index: https://www.anthropic.com/economic-index

Read more about AGI: https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/artificial-general-intelligence