Best Gavin Purcell Podcasts (2025)

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DeepMind Says We're Not Ready For AGI, Academy Awards Say AI Video is Ok, and AI Voice Models Get Weird 49:20

4d ago49:20

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Google says we’re not ready for AGI and honestly, they might be right. DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis warns we could be just five years away from artificial general intelligence, and society isn’t prepared. Um, yikes? VISIT OUR SPONSOR https://molku.ai/ In this episode, we break down Google’s new “Era of Experience” paper and what it means for how AIs w…

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OpenAI's New o3 & o4-mini Are Better, Cheaper & Faster, New AI Video Models & More AI News 52:21

11d ago52:21

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OpenAI’s o3 and o4-mini are here—and they’re multimodal, cheaper, and scary good. These models can see, code, plan, and use tools all on their own. Yeah. It’s a big deal. We break down everything from tool use to image reasoning to why o3 might be the start of something actually autonomous. Plus, our favorite cursed (and adorable) 4o Image Generati…

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Google's Updated Gemini 2.5 Pro May Be Winning the AI Race, OpenAI Delays GPT-5 & More AI News 1:02:48

18d ago1:02:48

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Google’s AI efforts & Gemini Pro 2.5 take a major step forward with updates to Deep Research, new Agent2Agent protocol (A2A) & more. Sadly, OpenAI teases o3 and o4 but delays GPT-5. Plus, Meta’s new Llama 4 models are out but have issues, Midjourney v7’s debut, John Carmack’s smackdown of an AI video game engine hater, Gavin’s deep dive into OpenAI…

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OpenAI's Servers Meltdown & Raises $40 Billion Dollars, Runway's Amazing New Gen-4 AI Video & More AI News 52:46

25d ago52:46

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OpenAI’s servers melted down as it opened up ChatGPT 4o Image Generation to everyone… and then nerfed it hard. Thankfully, their new raise of $40 BILLION DOLLARS will help. We dive deeper into all the cool ways people are using it (and aren’t able to use it any more) along with news about OpenAI Academy & how GPT-4.5 beat the Turing Test. Then Runw…

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OpenAI's New 4o Image Gen Dominates The Internet, Google Gemini 2.5 & More AI News 1:02:41

1M ago1:02:41

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OpenAI’s new 4o Image Gen is the best AI image model we’ve seen to date and it has absolutely taken over the Internet. Plus, Gemini 2.5 is no slouch and a ton of new robots! Plus, OpenAI’s new OpenAI.fm let’s you prompt AI voices in new ways, DeepSeek’s new model is actually better (at times) then GPT 4.5, a new Cursor for 3D modeling and, we’re so…

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NVIDIA's Huge AI & Robot Event, Google's NextGen Image Model, AI Video Tools & More Insane AI News 1:04:53

1M ago1:04:53

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AI runs on NVIDIA and it was never more clear than at this week’s GTC where new AI chips and robots were announced. Plus, Google’s good new AI tools & the best AI Video to date. Plus, dangerous new robots terrify us, insane new AI camera tools, DeepSeek is VERY important to the Chinese gov’t, the hidden dangers of vibe coding and Claude 3.7 Sonnet …

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Anthropic CEO Says AI Will Write All Code, China's Manus AI, New OpenAI Models & More AI News 1:06:21

2M ago1:06:21

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AGI is coming & Anthropic’s Dario Amoedi says AI will soon write all code but... what happens then? New AI Agent Manus & OpenAI’s Agentic Responses API give us a sneak peak at the future. Plus, Hedra’s Character-3 is VERY good at lip-sync, OpenAI's got a new Creative Writing AI model that's making people mad, Google’s Gemma 3 is a small AI model wi…

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Elon's War on "Activist Judge" Backfired 11:42

2M ago11:42

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Elon Musk has been loud and proud lately about what a problem there is with so many “activist” judges in the judiciary, undermining Donald Trump. Well, yesterday, the conservative Supreme Court affirmed just such an “activist” judge, when they ruled that District Court Judge Amir Ali, could in fact force the Trump administration to pay out $2 billi…

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Tucker Carlson Interviewed SBF (match made in heaven) 9:39

2M ago9:39

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Tucker Carlson and his perpetually-furrowed eyebrows interviewed Sam Bankman-Fried from prison. Let's discuss.

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OpenAI's $20,000 AI Agent, Insane Sesame AI Audio, GPT-4.5 Thoughts & More AI News 58:21

2M ago58:21

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OpenAI’s new PhD-level agents might cost 20000 dollars, GPT-4.5 is here and it’s all about the vibes, Sesame’s new real-time AI voice model is insane & SO MANY AI ROBOTS. Plus, why exactly is Apple delaying AI Siri until 2027, an explainer of Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol & why the AI world is obsessed with it, Runway’s new Video-to-Video effe…

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Joe Rogan’s Double Standard 11:21

2M ago11:21

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Joe Rogan is the biggest media brand in the world who recently interviewed the most powerful person in the world, Elon Musk. And while I have a certain affection for Rogan and his every-man common sense, he doesn’t hold himself to the same standard that he holds the rest of the media. Let’s discuss. Chapters: 00:00 - the theme of Elon Musk on Joe R…

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Media Hyperbole is Counterproductive 9:30

2M ago9:30

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I would normally avoid cable news, but I couldn’t help but respond to Lawrence O’Donnell’s ~performance~ on his MSNBC show last week, as he reacts to Trump’s radical decision to *checks notes* not vote in favor of a UN GA resolution. It is crazy to me that the media STILL has not figured out how to cover the Trump administration in a productive and…

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Two Ways to Understand Donald Trump + Elon Musk 13:28

2M ago13:28

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There are two different ways to understand Donald Trump and Elon Musk and they are living in my head (and fighting) rent free. One is the version championed by the Republicans, the other, by the Democrats. Let's discuss. BTW - I spent like 8 hours watching pundits talk about this today, so I hope you enjoy this episode 🫠 Chapters: 00:00 - Two Ways …

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Amazon's New Alexa AI, OpenAI's GPT 4.5, Claude Sonnet's Coding Power & More AI News 1:08:45

2M ago1:08:45

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Amazon announces a huge AI-powered upgrade called Alexa+, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.7 is amazing at code, OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 is on the way, & good lord who let Grok 3 Voice out?! We go *very* deep on Claude Sonnet 3.7 as we show all of the very cool stuff that people have made with it so far (including an amazing Pokemon experience), Deepseek’s R2 …

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Is DOGE' War on USAID Destroying Democracy or Defending it? 12:18

2M ago12:18

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Elon Musk, DOGE, and Donald Trump have waged war on USAID - the US agency that has become a lightening rod in the debate over which party is really killing democracy. I dived in to the primary source data to try to understand for myself what is going on! My video giving a deeper legal breakdown: https://youtu.be/hWR06RnrSO8 Latest Legal Filings - A…

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I'm Back! (with a new direction) 7:55

2M ago7:55

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I've missed podcasting SO MUCH! But now I'm back and I'm here to stay. I never wanted to talk about politics again (after working on a presidential campaign in the 2020 election cycle), buuuut.... here we are talking about DOGE, Elon, Trump, and the Democrats. I am both frustrated by the fact that there are not enough sources I trust covering polit…

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xAI's Grok 3 Just Changed The AI Race, Mircosoft's New AI Gaming Model, Spicy ChatGPT And More AI News 59:07

2M ago59:07

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AI NEWS: xAI’s Grok 3 is good. What does that mean for the future of AI? Plus, OpenAI’s spicy update, Convergence’s Free-to-use Proxy AI Agent & Microsoft’s new MUSE AI game engine. Plus, Unitree’s dancing robots vs creeply Clone Robotics, an AI model from Meta that can read your mind, Palmer Lucky dives into the future of AI warfare and pour one o…

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Elon Vs OpenAI, GPT-5 Is Confirmed, New AI Video Models & More AI News 57:10

2M ago57:10

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OpenAI fights off Elon Musk while Sam drops info about GPT-5 (it’s coming and it’s free), the leaders of the world discuss AI safety & Apple’s busy making robot lamps… Plus, OpenAI says their next AI model will be one of the world’s best programmers, Zonos is a brand new, open source audio cloning tool, a deep dive into Bytedance’s new Goku+ model …

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OpenAI's Deep Research Gets Closer To AGI, Replit's No-Code AI App, NVIDIA's New Robots & More AI News 58:03

3M ago58:03

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OpenAI’s new Deep Research, running on their new o3 model, pushes back against DeepSeek. Is this AGI? NOT YET. But close? Meanwhile, OmniHuman-1 is near perfect AI lip-sync and NVIDIA’s robots are coming for us all! Plus, Replit’s new iPhone app brings no code AI coding to the masses, ChatGPT does the same thing with o3-mini, Kai Cenat’s Unitree Ro…

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Deepseek R1 Chaos Updates, OpenAI Speeds Up & More AI News 55:03

3M ago55:03

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Deepseek’s R1 model shook OpenAI & now Sam Altman says they’re moving faster. We explain what’s going on, where we go next (AGI anyone?) and how China is a MAJOR AI player now. It’s not only Deepseek, China’s Qwen2.5 Max model is brand new, Chinese AI video tools like Kling & Minimax keep shipping updates. AND they’ve got tentacle robots! YIKES. Me…

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OpenAI's $500B Stargate Project, Cutting Edge Chinese AI Models & More AI News 56:56

3M ago56:56

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AI is speeding up… Is Project Stargate the $500 billion dollar path to AGI? OpenAI seems to think so. Plus, details on Deepseek’s R1 open-source reasoning & more AI news! Anthropic’s Dario Amodei discusses the next few years of AI, OpenAI’s Operator is likely coming this week, Google’s new Gemini model (Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental 01-21)…

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OpenAI Plans Super Intelligence, NVIDIA's Tiny Image Model & Reddit Launches GPT & More AI News 52:17

3M ago52:17

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OpenAI is prepping for Artificial Super Intelligence, Sam Altman says AI fast takeoff is likely, Luma Labs’ new Ray 2 AI video model looks good and Reddit goes all GPT on us. Plus, an amazing new small AI model from NVIDIA, executive AI orders for more power and chips, ChatGPT Tasks kind of blows and a whole lotta Shrek (more so than you might want…

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AGI in 2025? Plus, OpenAI's Agents, NVIDIA's AI World Model & More AI News 43:15

4M ago43:15

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AGI is coming in 2025 or at least that’s what OpenAI’s Sam Altman thinks. Plus, huge announcements from NVIDIA at CES & hands on with Google’s VEO 2. AND OpenAI’s Operator (aka their AI Agents) might come soon, DeekSeek V3 is pretty darn good, Meta makes a big mistake with their AI personalities, Minimax’s new subject reference tool, METAGENE-1 mig…

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AI Predictions for 2025, Thoughts on OpenAI's o3 & The Year in Review 30:24

4M ago30:24

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AI PREDICTIONS are never easy but we give our thoughts on what will happen in 2025 and beyond as well as dive into OpenAI’s o3 announcement and what it means for all of us. Then, we fed all of AI For Humans into Google's NotebookLM and had them take a DeepDive look at how we did over the course of 2024. We did ok? It’s a quickie AI For Humans episo…

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Google Wins AI Video, ChatGPT Gets a 1-800 Number & More Massive AI News 44:15

4M ago44:15

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Google’s VEO 2 and Gemini updates are… freaking good?! Plus, OpenAI lets you call ChatGPT, o1 is in the API now & Nvidia’s Jensen Huang is giving us a new robot brain. Plus, new Pika 2.0 AI video tools, Ilya Sutskever returns to tell us pre-training is over, YouTube and CAA comes together on a deal for protecting celebrity likenesses, Google’s Whis…

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ChatGPT For iPhone is Here, OpenAI's Sora Released, Google Gemini 2.0 and more AI News 51:56

5M ago51:56

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AI NEWS: OpenAI’s Sam Altman drops Sora, o1 Pro & ChatGPT on our iPhone. What’s next? Plus, Google’s HUGE Gemini update and Genmojis are here from Apple. It is the biggest AI news week we’ve seen in a VERY long time (for real) as OpenAI continues it’s 12 Days of Shipmas with no signs of stopping, plus we have some very cool AI videos and Gavin talk…

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OpenAI's 12 Days of AI Surpirse, Breakthrough AI World Models & More AI News 52:16

5M ago52:16

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OpenAI’s 12 days of HUGE AI updates to Sora, o1 & maybe even GPT-5, Google’s Genie 2 & World Labs’ AI world models & Amazon announces Nova AI models. Plus, Tencent’s new open-source HunyuanVideo, Kling’s amazing Motion Brush tool, a fan made Batman AI film that’s actually watchable, Spotify Integrates NotebookLM, Eleven Labs brings the voice AI hea…

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Three Biggest AI Trends for 2025 & We Answer Your AI Questions 42:00

5M ago42:00

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AI Agents, Inference Compute like OpenAI’s o1 and the maturation of the AI Video & AI Audio space (Runway, Sora & oh so much more-ah) are the three biggest trends coming for 2025 and we walk you through them all. Then, we answer a ton of your questions about AI in a not-at-all-boring way in this very special (and taped *slightly* ahead of time) epi…

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New AI Studios in Hollywood, DeepSeek's AI Reasoning Model, Perplexity Disrupts Shopping & More AI News 52:09

5M ago52:09

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AI News: Deepseek’s AI reasoning model takes on OpenAI’s o1, Perplexity takes on shopping and new AI studio Promise & *checks notes* Ben Affleck take on traditional Hollywood? It’s a deep dive on AI vs Hollywood as we also talk about the controversial AI Coca-Cola commercial & how media jobs are being shed at record numbers. Plus, Gemini’s new voic…

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OpenAI & Google Struggle on Model Training, Suno's New AI Music Model & More AI News 46:52

5M ago46:52

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AI NEWS: OpenAI, Google & other AI companies face potential struggles to advance their frontier AI models like Orion, but Anthropic's CEO still predicts AGI by 2027. What gives? We discuss the growing fear that AI scaling has peaked and what’s causing the slowdown. Meanwhile, Apple makes strides in AI tech, we got our hands on Suno V4 which is *gre…

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Sam Altman's AI Optimism, New Presidential AI Policy & Defense, Endless AI Video Games & More AI News 40:26

6M ago40:26

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AI News: OpenAI’s Sam Altman says AI is accelerating to AGI and NVIDIA is the world’s most valuable company just as other billionaires say we’re slowing down. What gives? Plus, the US election shakes up the world of open-source AI as Meta’s LLAMA model is being used both by other governments and our own for defense purposes. Plus, the Oasis generat…

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OpenAI Says AGI Not Far Off, Apple Intelligence is Just OK, Meta AI Search & More AI News 49:57

6M ago49:57

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AI News: OpenAI says AGI is incoming… James Cameron says that might not be good, even though OAI is building new chips AND has a new frontier model (GPT-5) on the way. Plus, Apple Intelligence is here and it’s just ok, Meta is taking on Google Search, Mircosoft’s Github takes on Cursor with Spark that can write code, Red Panda is a mysterious new A…

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Anthropic's New AI Agent, OpenAI Plays Catch-up, Runway's Act-One & More AI News 50:12

6M ago50:12

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AI NEWS: Agents are here from Anthropic with Computer Use in Claude Sonnet 3.5 (new) and likely coming from OpenAI, O1 keeps getting better and might get upgraded soon, Runway's New Act One let's you puppet AI video, Ideogram's new Canvas upgrades AI imaging, Unitree's Robots are getting WAY better and we show you how to make Google's NotebookLM un…

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Massive AI Update From Adobe, Tech Companies Go Nuclear & ChatGPT Knows Too Much 44:06

6M ago44:06

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Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI News: Adobe’s Max 2024 showed off a ton of new AI tools like Generative Extend and Project Clean Machine, Amazon and Google are going nuclear (in a good way), rumors swirl around Claude Open 3.5, Nvidia has a great new LLM model that beats GPT-4o & Meta’s new Co-Tracker3 looks amazing. Pl…

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Nobel Prizes For AI Scientists, OpenAI's New Canvas Tool & Huge AI Video Updates 47:23

7M ago47:23

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Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI News: AI Scientists Geoffrey Hinton & Google DeepMind’s Demmis Hassabis each won Nobel Prizes this week for their AI work, OpenAI is kinda mad at Microsoft for not meeting demand for new servers and launched ChatGPT Canvas, Tesla’s We Robot event will unveil new Robotaxis, Meta MovieGen s…

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OpenAI Is Worth $150B Now, NotebookLM Takes Over & More AI News 40:44

7M ago40:44

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Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI News: OpenAI’s got 6 BILLION dollars in new funding and showed off a bunch of AI tools for builders at DemoDay and even teased AI agents, Microsoft’s Copilot launched Voice, Vision & Think Deeper, Pika Labs’ new 1.5 model lets you melt, squish and inflate yourself, a big AI safety bill wa…

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Next Gen AI Is Here: Meta Connect, OpenAI Advanced Voice & More 49:33

7M ago49:33

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Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI News: Meta unveiled Orion, its new AR headset, along with a multimodal Llama 3.2, updates to it’s AI Raybans and a bunch of AI tools at Meta Connect 2024, OpenAI’s Advanced Voice is here for everyone, a new version of Sora is in training, Sam Altman says we’re only a few thousand days awa…

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Major Hollywood Studio AI, OpenAI's New Model Gets Better & More AI News 41:51

7M ago41:51

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Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI NEWS: Runway has teamed up with Lionsgate to create the world’s first major studio AI model, OpenAI’s o1-preview and o1-mini are VERY good and you get a lot more of them, Suno’s new AI covers tool is amazing, 1x’s Robotics World Simulation show us the future & NotebookLM’s new podcast cre…

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OpenAI’s Strawberry Two Weeks Out... But What Is it? Plus, More AI News! 36:16

8M ago36:16

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Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Breaking AI News: OpenAI’s Strawberry is only two weeks away & we still don’t know exactly what it is. Is there a newer model coming? Plus, Adobe’s new Firefly AI video model looks good, Replit is a cool full pipeline for AI coding, an AI predi…

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New Billion Dollar Start-up From Ex-OpenAI Founder, GPT-Next Is Coming (We Think) & More AI News 45:05

8M ago45:05

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Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI NEWS: OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever is back! Learn how SSI (Safe Superintelligence) landed a billion dollars in seed funding for the next gen of AI. Plus, OpenAI teases GPT-Next (again) but something might *actually* be on the horizon. Plus, XAI brings a massive AI cluster of H100s onl…

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OpenAI's Strawberry & Project Orion, Cursor AI Makes Programming Easy & More Huge AI News 49:22

8M ago49:22

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Join our new Discord! https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f AI News: OpenAI’s rumored Strawberry reasoning model is real and might just be paving the way for GPT-5 aka Project Orion according to a huge story in The Information. Plus, GameNGen uses AI to generate DOOM on the fly, Cursor AI is turning everyone into programmers, lots more people are mad at AI…

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Ideogram & Flux Make AI Imaging Too Realistic, OpenAI Updates & More AI News 47:55

8M ago47:55

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Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI news coming in HOT: Ideogram 2.0 dropped and, along with Flux community updates & Google’s IMAGEN-3, continues to show how AI imaging tools keep improving… but also opens the door to whole new messes. Plus, OpenAI’s drops new blog posts (wee!), Unitree sends their cheap humanoid robot int…

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Grok-2 Is Actually Good, Google's Huge AI Updates & More AI News 52:12

9M ago52:12

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Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow XAI surprised us all with the drop of Grok-2 and it’s actually very good, Google’s new Pixel event was AI heavy as Gemini Voice looks to steal OpenAI’s thunder. OpenAI *did* drop a new model but it wasn’t the rumored Strawberry…at least not yet. Plus, AI crowds, way more Flux content and a s…

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OpenAI Spirals Into Chaos... Can 'Strawberry' Save it & More AI News 40:04

9M ago40:04

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Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI NEWS: OpenAI is losing co-founders & getting sued by Elon but might be on the verge of a big new model. Strawberry Q* anyone? Plus, we dig in on Figure Robotics new 02 robot, the amazing Flux image (and soon to be) video AI model, 404Media’s reporting on where Facebook’s AI slop comes fro…

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OpenAI's GPT-4o Voice Alpha Release, Midjourney & Runway GEN-3 Updates & More AI News 10:52

9M ago10:52

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Big AI news this week: OpenAI’s GPT-4o voice mode starts to leak out to users while they also announced SearchGPT, their big new search product. Also, a new Midjourney update upgrades the best generative AI image tool while Runway GEN-3 introduces image-to-video allowing AI creatives huge new tools to work with. All that and even more in a mini “we…

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Meta's New Llama 3.1 is great, OpenAI's GPT-4o Mini & Adobe's AI Update 26:13

9M ago26:13

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Meta’s Llama 3.1 405b parameter model is here, it’s great and Mark Zuckerberg is leading the open source AI movement. Not to be outdone, OpenAI’s GPT-4o Mini arrives, a new study on Universal Basic Income & Adobe releases new Firefly tools. And, Elon does some talking. ALSO WE’RE IN PERSON. WHOO-DOGGY. Join our new Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/…

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Big Tech Rips YouTube For AI, OpenAI's New AGI Rules & the Shifting Political Landscape of AI 1:11:30

9M ago1:11:30

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Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI News coming in hot: Proof News shows that YouTube transcripts were used to train The Pile, an AI model that NVIDIA, Amazon, Apple & Anthropic all use, A16Z & other Silicon Valley leaders choose a side in the election, OpenAI's new model is leaking info on the steps to AGI & some of our fa…

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Is AI Dying? Plus, OpenAI Leaves China, Hollywood-ready AI Video & a new AI Debate 56:47

10M ago56:47

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Join our new Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI News coming in hot: Goldman Sachs issued a report that AI is *extremely overhyped*, OpenAI blocks access to its API in China and the rumors are swirling, Anthropic drops the ability to remix its AI programming Artifacts, a slew of new AI video tools make us rethink the entire fabric o…

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Sam Altman Hints at GPT-5, Hands-on with Runway Gen-3 & So Much Robot News 1:06:48

10M ago1:06:48

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We Give Talks! Book AI For Humans here: https://www.aiforhumans.show/p/speaking-engagements-bookings/ OpenAI’s Sam Altman dribbled out some new news on GPT-5, Bill Gates talks AI scaling & Google is failing at its climate pledge cuz of Gemini. Plus, a deeeeep dive on Runway’s Gen-3 with some hands-on learnings, Meta’s amazing new 3D-Gen text-to-3d …

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Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Reigns as OpenAI Slips, AI Music Lawsuits & More AI News 54:09

10M ago54:09

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Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet wows us with its coding ability whilst OpenAI's GPT-4 voice mode is officially delayed. Suno & Udio are sued by all three major record companies which will set in motion a much larger AI discussion & Toys R Us teams with Sora to make a new commercial which is only *slightly* uncanny valley-ish. Plus, a killer AI meme g…

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