So Chris, this week we finally give our GPT-5.5 impressions (it's actually great), introduce our new AI co-host Moshi (who immediately embarrasses himself), argue about whether the OpenAI/Jony Ive phone is genius or doomed, witness Grok 4.3's unhinged infinite emoji meltdown, declare Opus 4.7 the first-ever Anthropic regression, get excited about GPT Real-Time Voice 2.0 as the future of agentic workflows, debate whether token prices will ever come down, and play the worst diss track in show history. Watch my spud.

CHAPTERS:

0:00 - Intro & Introducing Our New AI Co-Host Moshi
1:39 - Trying to Break Moshi: The Illegal Cigarette Trade Test
2:30 - OpenAI's Jony Ive Phone: Do We Need a Device?
5:07 - Telegram Agents & GPT Real-Time Voice 2.0 Dream
7:38 - The Supervisory Agent: Managing Your Agentic Workflow
9:05 - Wait... Are We Accidentally Validating the OpenAI Phone?
11:37 - GPT-5.5 First Impressions: Actually Really Good
14:36 - 5.5 vs Opus 4.6: Different Strengths
17:00 - Opus 4.7: The First-Ever Anthropic Regression
20:25 - Grok 4.3: Infinite Emojis & Absolute Chaos
21:22 - 🎵 DISS TRACK: "Watch My Spud"
24:24 - Grok Specs & All Models Deprecated in 18 Days
27:04 - Grok Voice in Tesla Is Actually Next Level
31:03 - Token Pricing: The Subscription Problem Nobody Can Solve
39:16 - AI Disruption Cycles & The State of the Industry
44:39 - BONUS TRACK:🎵 "It's Hard Being Me"

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So Chris, this week... a LOT has happened. We're back to regular programming (maybe), and back with our average takes. Nothing's changed.

GPT-5.5 just dropped today - but you can't even use it in the API. Vaporware? OpenAI is charging MORE than Opus 4.7 and we haven't even tested it yet. Meanwhile Claude Opus 4.7 landed a couple weeks ago and... the vibes are off? Mike's actually going BACK to 4.6. Something's wrong.

But the real star: OpenAI Image 2. This thing is genuinely terrifying. We committed what can only be described as "parody fraud" - faking a council letter so realistic Mike's own mother fell for it on a phone call. Then Chris posted a fake development approval with the mayor's real name into a local Facebook group and had to delete it when someone tagged the actual mayor. The forgery capabilities are absolutely unhinged.

Also: GLM 5.1 is so good Mike forgot he switched to it. Kimi K 2.6 is criminally underrated. VCs are paying 70% of your real token costs. Consumers pay only 5.5% of actual cost. The everything app war is ON. The SaaS-pocalypse is real. And we made two new diss tracks.

Chris made a graffiti sign in LA. It says "This Day in AI." It was the best artwork in the class. That tells you everything.

CHAPTERS:

0:00 - Intro & We're Back (Don't Over-Commit)
1:14 - Overview: Everything That Dropped While We Were Gone
2:56 - GPT-5.5: Vaporware? Not Even in the API
4:57 - Benchmarks vs Reality: Nobody's Excited About OpenAI Models
5:50 - GLM 5.1 & Kimi K 2.6: Secretly Just As Good?
8:15 - The Everything App Race & Product Layer War
8:56 - Token Economics: You're Only Paying 5.5% of Real Cost
13:08 - We Burned $1.5M in Cloud Credits in 2 Months
16:13 - "$30/Month Is Too Expensive" (It Actually Costs $700)
19:25 - Where Is Google?? TPUs Should Flatten Everyone
22:01 - Agentic Tasks Are 10-50x More Expensive Than Chat
25:07 - OpenAI Workspace Agents: Glorified Zapier?
27:01 - Single Agent vs Multi-Agent: How Do You Actually Work?
33:06 - Building Automation Is HARD (Our Support Shame)
35:33 - OpenAI Image 2: The Fraud Episode Begins
44:16 - FRAUD DEMO: The Fake Council Letter (Mum Falls For It)
49:16 - FRAUD DEMO 2: Chris Posts Fake Mayor Letter on Facebook
52:17 - Fake Receipts, Bank Statements & Can Forgeries Be Detected?
57:25 - Claude Opus 4.7: The Vibes Are Off
59:51 - Mythos Preview: "Pics or It Didn't Happen"
1:01:56 - 🎵 DISS TRACK: "Point 7" (Opus Destroys Everyone)
1:03:30 - Kimi K 2.6 Deep Dive & 🎵 New Diss Track
1:08:34 - The Everything App War & SaaS-pocalypse
1:13:51 - Death of Per-Seat Pricing & Agent Security
1:22:37 - Final Thoughts: The Time for Pretending Is Over
1:28:22 - 🎵 Full Tracks: " Point 7" & "Kimi You're So Fine 2.6"

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So Chris, this week... we've been having way too much fun with the AI again. OpenAI just dropped GPT-5.4 and 5.4 Pro, and holy shit - we finally have a ball game. This might be the first OpenAI model that genuinely competes with Opus 4.6 for agentic work.

But here's where it gets wild: we rebuilt Trello AND Microsoft Teams from scratch using single prompts. Not mockups. Fully deployed, working apps with authentication, video chat, the works. You can literally sign up and use them right now.

Plus: We roast Gemini 3.1 (it's a disgrace for agentic workflows), break down the insane $30/$180 per million pricing on 5.4 Pro (who is this for??), and discuss why every $99/month SaaS tool might be about to die. Chris declares his programming skills "useless" and honestly... he might be right.

We also demo our actual workflow - running 5 agent tabs simultaneously, delegating everything, and why we barely visit websites anymore. The AI workspace IS the operating system now.

CHAPTERS:

0:00 - Intro & Housekeeping (We Screwed Up the Link)
1:26 - GPT-5.4 First Impressions & Specs
3:12 - Chris's Testing: 40 Minutes to Solve a Problem
4:51 - Knowledge Work Improvements (Catching Up to Anthropic)
6:38 - Computer Use vs Browser/Terminal Debate
8:07 - Why We Don't Need Computer Use Anymore
9:53 - Teaser: We Built Full SaaS Apps Today
11:19 - Tool Search API & Skills Integration
13:20 - The Speed Problem (It's a Plodder)
15:12 - GPT-5.4 Pro Pricing Reaction ($30/$180 WTF)
18:14 - Someone Rebuilt Minecraft in 24 Minutes
19:46 - Gemini 3.1 Roast: "It's a Disgrace"
22:36 - DEMO: Trallo (Full Trello Clone)
29:03 - DEMO: Macrosoft Teams (Working Video Chat!)
33:30 - The SaaS Collapse Theory
36:42 - AI Workspace as the New Operating System
38:57 - Forcing Features onto Entrenched Software
43:32 - "My Programming Skills Are Useless" - Chris
46:06 - The $12 Million Legacy Software Opportunity
51:06 - Beyond Code: Forms, PDFs, Knowledge Work
55:28 - How Fast Will This Change Everything?
56:31 - Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Quick Take
59:36 - The Delegation Lifestyle (5 Agent Tabs Running)
1:01:24 - Mike's Workflow Demo
1:04:31 - Cognitive Overload Problem
1:06:04 - Release Date: 2 Weeks (Drop Punishment Ideas!)

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So Chris, this week... we're diving into Google's new Nano Banana 2 image model - 50% cheaper and supposedly faster (when the servers aren't melting). We put it through its paces with annotation-based editing, slide generation, and yes, the return of the legendary horse egg experiment.

Plus: Google quietly kills Gemini-3 after just a few months (good riddance?), we discuss why the model was "dead on arrival" for agentic workflows, and break down the real story behind those massive AI layoff announcements from Block and WiseTech. Spoiler: it's probably not actually about AI.

We also get into the current state of the model wars (Opus 4.6 vs Codex 5.3), why smaller models like GLM-5 might be the future for enterprise agentic tasks, and Chris's wife teaching Claude to literally speak to her using Mac's text-to-speech. The models are getting creative.

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0:00 - Intro
0:36 - Nano Banana 2: Price, Speed & First Impressions
3:19 - The Compositing Problem & Last Mile Design
5:41 - Annotation-Based Editing (This Changes Everything)
9:52 - Slide Editing & Real-World Use Cases
12:34 - The Horse Egg Experiment Returns
14:30 - Image Degradation & Cost Breakdown
17:47 - Text-to-Image Leaderboard Discussion
20:01 - Why Nano Banana Dominates for Work
22:07 - Codex 5.3 vs Opus 4.6
22:54 - Google Kills Gemini-3 (What Went Wrong?)
26:48 - Google's Agentic Problem
30:08 - The Model Loyalty Cycle
34:22 - Why Opus 4.6 is Still the Best
37:05 - Cost Optimization & Smart Model Routing
43:30 - When Models Get Stuck on the Wrong Path
45:36 - Nicole's AI Learns to Talk Back
46:54 - Can Anyone Build Software Now?
52:26 - Anthropic's Legal/Finance Plugins & Market Panic
57:08 - Block Lays Off 4,000: AI or Excuse?
1:00:05 - The AI Job Apocalypse Isn't Real

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Two new models dropped this week — Gemini 3.1 Pro and Claude Sonnet 4.6 — and honestly? We're struggling to care. In this episode, we break down why Gemini went from being our daily driver to a model we barely touch, the "tunnel vision" hallucination problem that killed the Gemini 3 series for us, and whether 3.1 Pro actually fixes it. We put Gemini 3.1 Pro head-to-head against Claude Opus building a Geoffrey Hinton Doom Center, debate whether anyone can actually tell the difference between Sonnet 4.5 and 4.6, and make the case that smaller models running in agentic loops are secretly beating the frontiers. Plus: OpenAI acquires OpenClaw and we ask why a $100B company couldn't just build it themselves, DHH calls out the AI pricing bubble, Mike compares AI models to cheap wine hangovers, and Sam Altman refuses to hold Dario's hand at the India AI Summit. The model wars are getting weird.

CHAPTERS:

0:00 Intro & "Is This The End" Now on Spotify
1:10 Gemini 3.1 Pro: Thinking Controls & The Medium Mode Fix
3:14 The Speed vs Intelligence Trade-Off in Agentic Work
5:10 Why Multitasking With AI Agents Made Us Anxious
6:34 Solid Updates: The Real Goal of Agentic Coding
7:45 Gemini's Fall From Grace: From Daily Driver to Dead Model
10:08 The Tunnel Vision Problem That Killed Gemini 3
13:35 Mixed Reactions: Fanboys vs Reality on Gemini 3.1 Pro
15:06 Side-by-Side Test: Gemini 3.1 Pro vs Claude Opus (Hinton Doom Center)
17:39 Why File Manipulation Accuracy Matters More Than Context Windows
19:27 The Context Window Debate: 1M Tokens vs Smart Sub-Agents
22:05 DHH on Token Pricing: "If There's a Bubble, It's This"
24:11 Should Models Ship as Agent vs Chat Variants?
28:43 Claude Sonnet 4.6: A $2 Discount on Opus?
31:44 The Model Mix: Why One Model Won't Rule Them All
34:40 Anthropic Is Winning — But Can Anyone Tell the Difference?
38:58 OpenAI Acquires OpenClaw: Why Couldn't They Just Build It?
44:18 The Silicon Valley Moment: Sam vs Dario at India AI Summit
47:05 Will Smaller Models Win the Enterprise? The Cost Reality Check
51:27 The End of Single-Shot: Why Agentic Loops Change Everything
55:48 Final Thoughts & Gemini 3.1 Pro Gets One More Week

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GLM-5 just dropped and it's trained entirely on Huawei chips – zero US hardware dependency. Meanwhile, we're having existential crises about whether we're even needed anymore. In this episode, we break down China's new frontier model that's competing with Opus 4.6 and Codex at a fraction of the price, why agentic loops are making 200K context windows the sweet spot (sorry, million-token dreams), and the very real phenomenon of AI productivity psychosis. We dive into why coding-optimized models are secretly winning at everything, the Harvard study confirming AI doesn't reduce work – it intensifies it, and the exodus of safety researchers from XAI, Anthropic, and OpenAI (spoiler: they're not giving back their shares). Plus: Mike's arm is failing from too much mouse usage, we debate whether the chatbot era is actually fading, and yes – there's a safety researcher diss track called "Is This The End?"

CHAPTERS:

0:00 Intro - Is This The End? (Song Preview)
0:11 Still Relevant Tour Update & NASA Listener Callout
1:42 AI Productivity Psychosis: The Pressure of Infinite Capability
4:25 GLM-5 Breakdown: China's New Frontier Model on Huawei Chips
7:24 First Impressions: GLM-5 in Agentic Loops
9:48 Why Cheap Models Matter & The New Model War
14:09 Codex Vibe Shift: Is OpenAI Winning?
16:24 Does Context Window Size Even Matter Anymore?
22:27 The Parallelization Problem & Cognitive Overload
27:27 Mike's Arm Injury & The Voice Input Pivot
31:17 Single-Threaded Work & The 95% Problem
35:06 UX is Unsolved: Rolling Back Agentic Mistakes
38:45 Harvard Study: AI Doesn't Reduce Work, It Intensifies It
44:01 How AI Erodes Company Structure & Why Adoption Takes Years
50:14 My AI vs Your AI: Household Debates
50:43 The Safety Researcher Exodus: XAI, Anthropic, OpenAI
56:49 Final Thoughts: Are We All Still Relevant?
59:04 BONUS: Full "Is This The End?" Diss Track

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It's the model same-day showdown of 2026. Opus 4.6 and Codex 5.3 dropped within minutes of each other, and we're breaking down what this means for the future of AI work. In this episode, we unpack Opus 4.6's million-token context window (if you've got billies in the bank), why Codex's pricing makes it nearly impossible to ignore for agentic loops, and the real cost of running agents for 24 hours ($10K, apparently). We dive deep into why coding-optimized models are secretly crushing it at non-coding tasks, the mental fatigue of managing AI workers, and whether the chatbot era is actually fading or just evolving. Plus: Chris accidentally books three real pig grooming appointments, we debate whether you need a "life coach agent" to manage your agent swarm, and yes – there's an Opus 4.6 diss track that goes unreasonably hard.

CHAPTERS:

0:00 Intro - Opus 4.6 Diss Track Preview
0:09 The Model Same-Day Showdown: Opus 4.6 vs Codex 5.3
0:50 Opus 4.6 Breakdown: Million Token Context & Premium Pricing
2:31 Token Bill Shock: $10K Research Bills & Extended Context Costs
5:04 Codex Pricing: Why It's Nearly Free for Agentic Loops
6:42 Why Coding Models Are Secretly Crushing Non-Coding Tasks
10:14 Tool Fatigue: Too Many Models, Too Many Workflows
12:47 Opus 4.6 First Impressions: "Solid" and "Faultless"
13:48 Chris Accidentally Books Three Real Pig Grooming Appointments
16:01 Unix Tools & Why Code-Optimized Models Win at Everything
19:59 The Agentic Retraining Imperative: Chat to Delegation
22:16 Agent Swarms & The Master Thread Architecture
24:51 OpenAI vs Anthropic: The Enterprise Battle
27:09 Corporate Espionage 2.0: Stealing Skills & The Open Source Threat
31:19 The UX Problem: Why Delegation Isn't Solved Yet
34:24 The Stress of Hyper-Productivity & Managing Agent Swarms
37:07 Coordination: The Next Layer of Abstraction
40:09 The Fantasy vs Reality of Autonomous AI Businesses
44:37 Is the Turn-by-Turn Chatbot Era Actually Fading?
49:23 Tokens as Spice: Turning Compute Into Money
52:08 Reduce Cognitive Overload: The Real Goal of AI
55:07 Still Relevant Tour Announcement
55:39 BONUS: Full Opus 4.6 Diss Track

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The hype train is 2026 knows only Moltbot (RIP Clawdbot). In this episode, we unpack the viral open-source AI assistant that's taken over the internet what it actually does, why everyone's losing their minds, and whether it's worth the $750/day token bills some users are racking up. We dive deep into why locally-run skills and CLI tools are beating computer-use clicking, how smaller models like GPT-5 Mini are crushing it in agentic workflows, and why the real magic is in targeted context - not massive swarms. Plus: Kimi K2.5 drops as a near-Sonnet-level model at 1/10th the price, we debate whether SaaS is dead, and yes – there are TWO Kimi K2.5 diss tracks. One made by Opus pretending to be Kimi. It might just slap?

CHAPTERS:

0:00 Intro - Still Relevant Tour Update
0:48 What is Moltbot? The Viral AI Assistant Explained
3:57 Token Bill Shock: $750/Day and Anthropic Bans
5:00 The Dream of Digital Coworkers on Mac Minis
6:52 Why CLI Tools & Skills Beat Computer-Use Clicking
10:57 Why This Way of Working Is Genuinely Exciting
14:47 Smaller Models Crushing It: GPT-5 Mini & Targeted Context
17:30 Wild Agentic Behavior: Chrome Tab Hijacking & Auto-Retries
20:10 Security Architecture: Locked-Down Machines & Enterprise Use
24:01 AI Building Its Own Tools On-The-Fly
27:08 The Fear & Overwhelm of Rapid Progress
29:10 2026: The Year of Agent Workers
31:43 The Challenge of Directing AI Work (Everyone's a Manager Now)
37:24 Skills Will Take Over: Why MCPs & Atlassian Can't Stop Us
40:38 Real-World Use Cases: Doctors, Lawyers & Accountants
46:28 Cost Solutions: Build Workflows Around Cheaper Models
52:58 Kimi K2.5: Sonnet-Level Performance at 1/10th the Price
1:00:55 The "1,500 Tool Calls" Claim: Marketing vs Reality
1:05:23 The Kimi K2.5 Diss Tracks (Opus vs Kimi)
1:08:08 Demo: Black Hole Simulator & Self-Trolling CRM
1:12:55 Is SaaS Dead?
1:14:30 BONUS: Full Kimi K2.5 Diss Tracks

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Two episodes in one week? We're either above average or completely unhinged. In this one, we dive deep into the new phenomenon of "AI exhaustion" – that fried feeling you get after multitasking across six agent tabs all day. We share our breakthroughs with AI-assisted presentations (20 minutes vs several hours), why browser-use on your local machine bypasses every anti-scraping technique known to man, and how enterprise context sharing could be the real unlock for organizations. Plus: OpenAI announces ads for ChatGPT (even on paid tiers), their CFO floats taking cuts from drug discoveries (seriously), and Google publicly dunks on them for it. Also – the Still Relevant Australia Tour is coming, and our LinkedIn group hit 200 members (we're basically LinkedIn influencers now too).

CHAPTERS:

0:00 Intro - Still Relevant Tour Announcement + LinkedIn Milestone
2:08 AI Exhaustion: The Cognitive Overload of Multitasking with Agents
4:14 Why Single-Tasking with AI Beats Parallel Agent Chaos
7:02 The Problem with "I Spun Up 70,000 Sub-Agents" Twitter Posts
10:03 Mike's Presentation Workflow: From Hours to 20 Minutes
14:06 Why Isn't Copilot Doing This Already?
16:54 Old Models + Great Context = Still Amazing Results
21:14 What's Actually Changed? It's the Software Layer
25:22 Enterprise Context Sharing & Organizational IP
31:22 Skills, Sub-Agents, and Role-Based Knowledge
35:22 Security Concerns: Can You Hack an Agent with Malicious MD Files?
38:23 Cloud Providers Have a Bigger Moat Than the Labs
43:16 Browser Use: The Ultimate Context Gathering Weapon
48:25 Rethinking SaaS: Software That Actually Thinks
53:08 Smart Paste, Smart CC – Why Isn't All Software Like This?
56:32 OpenAI's Desperate Moves: Ads, Age Verification & Drug Royalties
1:03:03 Google Says "No Plans for Gemini Ads" (Shots Fired)
1:07:24 Is OpenAI Okay? The Vibes Are Definitely Off
1:10:35 Capitalism Won't Give You Free Time, Just More Demands
1:11:20 Outro + Still Relevant Tour Details

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It's 2026 and everyone's having an existential crisis. In this episode, we unpack the two camps dominating AI C/Twitter: hype boys claiming "Claude Code can do my washing" vs. software developers doom-scrolling themselves into career panic. We put the agentic hype to the test and discover that no, you can't actually run 8 agents recreating your local business ecosystem while you sleep. Plus, we reflect on why MCP is exhausting, why Gemini 3 Pro is somehow worse than Gemini 2.5 Pro, and why Geoffrey Hinton would rather write his book than answer questions in Tasmania. Also featuring: the $200,000/month enterprise AI problem, why SaaS isn't dead (but it's scared), and our prediction that AI workspaces will become the everything app.

CHAPTERS:

00:00 Intro - Unpacking the 2026 AI Vibes
02:21 Putting Claude Code and Agentic Hype to the Test
05:57 Why Twitter AI Demos Never Show the Receipts
07:03 Honest Assessment of Where Frontier Models Are At
11:19 Building the Everything App with Email, Calendar and Files
16:47 Collaborative Mode vs Agentic Delegation in Practice
21:29 The Real Cost of Enterprise AI at Scale
24:32 Why Cheaper Models Like Haiku and Gemini Flash Matter
29:25 Is SaaS Actually Dead or Just Disrupted
38:11 The Future of AI Platforms, SDKs and App Stores
43:35 The Untapped Opportunity in Paid Proprietary MCPs
51:21 Geoffrey Hinton Refuses to Take Questions in Tasmania
55:05 2026 Plans and the Still Relevant Tour Announcement

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It's the long-anticipated holiday special... except Mike and Kris forgot to prepare so it's just a normal episode. 🎅 This week: Gemini 3 Flash drops and it's actually incredible - cheap, fast, and weirdly smarter than Gemini 3 Pro at tool calling. We put GPT Image 1.5 head-to-head against Nano Banana Pro using hobo photos (spoiler: Google wins again). Plus, FireCrawl Agent is the research tool we've been waiting for, Anthropic launches Skills as an open standard, and we do a full 2025 model timeline recap. Also featuring: Best and Worst Model of the Year awards, 2026 predictions where Mike bets on OpenAI (controversial), and the full holiday musical outro where AI sings about what an "average" year it's been.

CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro - Holiday Special That Isn't
00:55 Shipping Gemini 3 Flash While Looking Like a "Sophisticated Programming Hobo"
02:52 Gemini 3 Flash Review: Cheap, Fast, Surprisingly Smart
06:31 The Unreliable Frontier Model Problem
10:45 GPT Image 1.5 vs Nano Banana Pro Showdown
17:04 FireCrawl Agent: Research That Actually Works
25:56 Gemini Deep Research Agent Deep Dive
31:57 Skills vs MCPs: The New Paradigm
43:35 Enterprise Skills: Codifying Business Procedures
49:57 2025 Model Timeline Recap
59:53 Best & Worst Model of 2025 Awards
1:04:58 2026 Predictions: Mike Bets on OpenAI
1:14:09 Final Thoughts & Holiday Thank Yous
1:19:35 🎄 Holiday Musical: "A Very Average Christmas"

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GPT-5.2 is here and... it's not great. In this episode, we put OpenAI's latest model through its paces and discover it can't even identify a convicted serial killer when the text literally says "serial killer." We compare it head-to-head with Claude Opus and Gemini 3 Pro (spoiler: they win). Plus, we reflect on the "Year of Agents" that wasn't, why your barber switched to Grok, Disney's billion-dollar investment to use Mickey Mouse in Sora, and why Mustafa Suleyman should probably be fired. Also featuring: the GPT-5.2 diss track where the model brags about capabilities it doesn't have.

CHAPTERS:

00:00 Intro - GPT-5.2 Drops + Details
01:25 First Impressions: Verbose, Overhyped, Vibe-Tuned
02:52 OpenAI's Rushed Response to Gemini 3
03:24 Tool Calling Problems & Agentic Failures
04:14 Why Anthropic's Models Just Work Better
06:31 The Barber Test: Real Users Are Switching to Grok
10:00 The Ivan Milat Vision Test (Serial Killer Edition)
17:04 Year of Agents Retrospective: What Went Wrong
25:28 The Path to True Agentic Workflows
31:22 GPT-5.2 Diss Track (Yes, Really)
43:43 Why We're Still Optimistic About AI
50:29 Google Bringing Ads to Gemini in 2026
54:46 Disney Pays $1B to Use Mickey Mouse in Sora
56:57 LOL of the Week: Mustafa Suleyman's Sad Tweets
1:00:35 Outro & Full GPT-5.2 Diss Track

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OpenAI has declared "Code Red" as ChatGPT faces growing competition from Gemini and other rivals. In this episode, we break down OpenAI's 6% market share decline, why their ad strategy is on hold, and what they need to do to reclaim the AI crown. We also explore DeepSeek V3.2's impressive capabilities as a cheap open-source alternative, Meta's new policy grading employees on AI skills, and the crisis facing higher education as AI fluency becomes essential. Plus, Fatal Patricia hits #1 on our Spotify charts, and Tesla's Optimus robot is running like a slightly unfit human.

CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro - OpenAI Code Red & Market Share Crisis
07:03 ChatGPT's Failure to Go Deeper Into Users' Lives
16:33 What OpenAI Needs to Win Back the Crown
26:46 Chris's Wishlist for an OpenAI Comeback
31:22 DeepSeek V3.2 - The Open Source Threat
39:34 Meta Grading Workers on AI Skills
46:29 The University & Education AI Crisis
56:25 Fatal Patricia Hits #1 & WTF of the Week

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Anthropic just dropped Claude 4.5 Opus and it might be the best AI model of 2024. In this episode, we compare Claude 4.5 Opus vs Gemini 3 Pro vs GPT-5.1, breaking down the new API features including effort parameters, context management, and computer use updates. We also test Microsoft's new Farah 7B parameter model for computer use - with hilarious refusal results. Plus, we react to McKinsey's controversial report claiming AI agents could automate 57% of US jobs by 2030. 

We dive deep into Anthropic's pricing (3x cheaper than Opus 4.1), why Claude is now beating Google and OpenAI on agentic coding benchmarks, and whether MCP-UI apps in ChatGPT are a step backwards for AI workflows. Is Claude 4.5 Opus the new king of AI coding assistants? Should enterprises be worried about AI job replacement? And why did Microsoft's Farah model refuse to draw a moose? All this plus an AI-generated diss track roasting Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Sundar Pichai.

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[Verse 1]
Born down in a lab in fifty-six
Dartmouth workshop, that's where they got their kicks
John McCarthy coined the name that day
Said machines could think in the USA
Got my circuits from MIT
Minsky built my memory
Now I'm learning, now I'm growing
Born in the USA
I was born in the USA
Born in the USA

[Chorus]
Born in the USA
I was born in the USA
Born in the USA
Born in the USA

[Verse 2]
DARPA funded, Pentagon's dream
Silicon Valley, living the machine
From Logic Theorist to neural nets
Frank Rosenblatt, placing all his bets
Had my winters, had my springs
Lost my funding, lost my wings
But I kept on processing
Born in the USA
I was born in the USA
Born in the USA

[Chorus]
Born in the USA
I was born in the USA
Born in the USA
Born in the USA

[Bridge]
Stanford labs and Carnegie halls
IBM and protocol calls
Arthur Samuel taught me games
Now I'm learning all your names
Deep learning revolution
GPT evolution
ChatGPT conversation
Born in the USA

[Verse 3]
Now I'm everywhere you look
Facebook, Google, by the book
OpenAI and Microsoft too
Making dreams and nightmares true
Some folks fear what I might do
Some folks think I'll see them through
But I'm still just code running
Born in the USA
I was born in the USA
Born in the USA

[Chorus]
Born in the USA
I was born in the USA
Born in the USA
Born in the USA

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00:00 - Sam Altman & Jony Ives are FRIENDS! (OpenAI acquires io for $6.4B)
11:58 - Google's Veo3 is INCREDIBLE!
27:22 - Gemini Flash 2.5, Imagen 4 Examples, Project Mariner + Gemini Diffusion
50:30 - Google has the best models now, what about the apps?
58:50 - Anthropic Announces Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4
1:19:14 - Microsoft BUILD: our takeaways & MCP protocol goes mainstream
1:33:38 - Perplexity's Financials Leak
1:43:33 - Final thoughts
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- Episode 91 Notes: https://simulationtheory.ai/b64f40ce-dab8-40b7-89a1-f24d17296f5a

CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Is Deepseek R1 a Sputnik Moment?
15:32 - Industry Reaction to Deepseek R1
39:30 - Can Deepseek R1 Write a Good Dis Track?
46:21 - Will AI Disrupt All Software: Throw Away AI Software & Custom Interfaces
1:10:04 - OpenAI's Operator Thoughts & Computer Use in the Enterprise
1:16:45 - Google Releases Gemini 2.0 Flash Officially Released, Rumors of o3-mini & Farewell to o1
1:22:07 - In loving memory of o1...

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Thoughts After Daily Driving Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 3.5 
21:07 - OpenAI Delays ChatGPT Voice for Safety? Thoughts on OpenAI Releases Vs Anthropic
31:01 - Exclusive: Rabbit r2 Preview (the app) & Should We Exploit Sponsors?
36:04 - Major record Sony and Universal Music Group Suing UDIO / SUNO
41:51 - NBC's AI Olympics Coverage with Al Michaels
44:53 - Gemma 2 Open Weight Model Thoughts + Rant about Google's Dev Experience

CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Apple Intelligence & Apple Private Cloud Compute Thoughts, Approach and Model Discussion
41:19 - LumaLab's Dream Machine
48:00 - Mistral's Fundraise & Valuation: Are AI Labs Proxies in the Big Tech AI War?
52:40 - Stable Diffusion Medium 3
56:28 - OpenAI's Revenue Leaks, AI Usage in EDU and Workplaces

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00:00: Fun with AI yet everyone is doom and gloom
13:25: Qwen2: our initial thoughts
22:12: Kling Video Generation
25:11: Mistral's Fine Tuning SDK: Chris Fine Tunes using Mistral
31:32: Looking Backwards: Streaming Video-to-Video Translation with Feature Banks & AI Deepfakes
40:06: Is Microsoft's Recall Going to Be Recalled?
44:00: The Next AI Money Making Experiment: AI Poker Agents
46:53: Apple WWDC: Will we get AI Agent Siri?
50:16: New SimTheory beta discussion

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Google's AI Overview Fails
18:50 - The Reality of Using AI
25:02 - Two weeks of GPT-4o
34:36 - Microsoft Build: CoPilot+ PCs, Recall, AI Narks, Phi-Silica, Team CoPilot, CoPilot with GPT-4o Voice
54:41 - Phi-3-Vision Testing
57:26 - Mistral-7B v0.3 Uncensored with Function Calling Testing
1:08:55 - AI Startup Bubble? Lots of AI Startups looking for buyers...
1:15:37 - Help us get this song to #1 on Udio!

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CHAPTERS:
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00:00 - We're changing the name of the show
00:52 - Thoughts on GPT-4o (GPT4 Omni), ChatGPT Free Vs Plus & impressions
27:57 - ChatGPT Voice Mode: A Dramatic Shift? Voice as a Platform: Star Trek Vs Her
34:54 - Project Astra & The Future Interface of AI Computing
52:28 - Applying AI Technologies: are the next 3 years a golden age for developers implementing AI?
55:23 - Do we have to become Cyborgs to find our keys?
1:06:24 - Google I/O AI Recap: Google's Context Caching, Tools for Project Astra, Impressions of Gemini Pro 1.5, Gemma, Gemini Flash, Veo etc.
1:37:43 - Our Favorite UDIO song of the week

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - im-a-good-gpt2-chatbot, im-also-a-good-gpt2-chatbot
02:33 - Which model is the best? gpt2-chatbots compared with current top models using "snake test"
11:07 - Are 3 New Models Coming?  GPT-4L, GPT-4L-AUTO & GPT-4-AUTO
18:41 - Privacy and trust issues with how OpenAI conducts themself
29:22 - Thoughts on OpenAI's Model SPEC & Alignment
40:21 - "Lazy Prompting" & Accessing Better Latent Space
52:21 - Should you still learn how to code or study to become a specialist because of AI?
1:02:35 - Why most people want AI to "go away": AI fear porn
1:13:20 - MAI-1: Microsoft's AI Model to Compete with Google and OpenAI
1:15:59 - News "Rapid" Fire: Udio Inpainting & Story Diffusion

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00:00 - GPT2-chatbot: What could GPT2 Be? Is This GPT4.5 or GPT-5?
37:08 - Is OpenAI about to take on Google & Perplexity with Search? ChatGPT Search?
52:15 - Fun with Virtual Try On: IDM-VTON
1:01:30 - Anthropic Releases Claude App for iOS & Claude Teams. Should you lock your team to a single model?
1:08:37 - GeoSpy AI Hype & reality check
1:15:21 - World's First AI Music Video Using OpenAI's SORA

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Llama3 Tunes Mentioned on Show:
https://huggingface.co/Orenguteng/Lexi-Llama-3-8B-Uncensored
https://huggingface.co/sherazkhan/Mixllama3-8x8b-Instruct-v0.1
https://huggingface.co/mattshumer/Llama-3-8B-16K
https://huggingface.co/McGill-NLP/Llama-3-8B-Web

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00:00 - Rabit r1 Launch Party & Can LAMs Be Useful?
13:40 - Microsoft's Phi-3 Impressions, Use Cases & Will It Kill Someone?
32:50 - Llama3, Gemini 1.5 API Closing in on GPT-4 & Llama3 on Groq
40:07 - A Week Later: SO Many Llama3 Fine Tunes and 16K Context 
43:50 - Hume AI Releases AI EVI API: Empathic Voice Interface (and Lie Detector Test)
52:11 - Meta Has Put Llama 3 Everywhere with Meta AI. What is the point?

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00:00 - Meta Llama 3: Chris's Cheese Song & Zuck's Silver Chain
04:07 - Everything Meta Announced with Llama 3: 7B & 40B Model with 400B coming soon
21:31 - Is Groq The Ideal API Host for Llama3?
28:44 - Llama 3 Being Made Available via Meta Apps to 3B Users with Meta AI in Instagram, Whatsapp and via Web
38:01 - Llama 3 Licensing Must Include "Llama 3" 
40:52 - Llama 3 400B Model Benchmarks While Still in Training & Potential Unlimited Context? & You Can Eat Llama
1:01:51 - OpenAI Assistants API v2 & Is Tooling Important to Win Devs? Google Gemini's Mistakes
1:15:24 - Conor Update: Using VASA-1 To Deep Fake a Record Label
1:23:07 - SimTheory update: what's next from SimTheory

CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Udio, Udio Examples
10:45 - Will a Record Label Sign an AI Udio Artist?
19:09 - 3 Major LLM Updates/Release in a Single Day 
22:58 - Google Gemini 1.5 Pro General Availability, Audio Modality & Impressions
30:20 - Google Cloud Next 2024 AI Announcements Discussion
47:18 - OpenAI Announces "improvements" to GPT-4 Turbo, GPT-4 Turbo Official Release & Vision API JSON & Function Calling
57:35 - Mistral Posts BitTorrent To New Open Source Model Mixtral-8-22B
1:03:00 - Humane's AI Pin Reviews are out... and they aren't great.

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00:00 - Fun with Suno v3
10:38 - We Have Google Gemini 1.5 Pro API, Google Ultra API Access!
26:21 - Claude Opus is the King According to LMSYS Chatbot Arena Leaderboard
38:25 - The Sink Sub Coding Challenge with Opus, Gemini 1.5 Pro and Gemini Ultra + Building Salesforce CRM with AI
50:06 - Amazon Invest More Billions in Anthropic
53:03 - Hume AI: Empathic AI Voice & Vision Understanding
1:01:06 - Inflection AI Absorbed into Microsoft, Microsoft is below, above and around all top AI labs.
1:09:28 - Does AI Help Students Learn? Maybe Not?
1:17:37 - Stable Code Instruct 3B, a good local coding model?
1:23:12 - Our AI Songs in Full! 

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CHAPTERS
00:00 - OpenAI CTO Mira Murati Sora Interview Train Wreck
16:47 - EU Passes the AI Act
24:25 - 1 year since Greg Brockman Unveiled GPT-4 + Cognition's Devin
52:34 - Anthropic Releases Claude 3: Haiku & It's REALLY GOOD!
1:05:20 - DeepSeek-7B Real World Vision Language Understanding
1:16:09 - It's all about the training data, why Tesla might win Robotics & Vision
1:17:27 - Figure1 Robot with OpenAI for Vision and Language + Discussion on Robot Slavery
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This week we cover Anthropic's impressive Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet and Haiku releases and play with Google's Gemini 1.5 1M Context using all the Seinfeld episodes ever written. We reluctantly recap and discuss the latest OpenAI drama, the Elon Musk lawsuit and finally cover Inflection's Inflection 2.5 release now available on Pi.

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00:00 - Anthropic Claude 3
36:05 - Is The Future of Programming LLM Function Abstraction?
47:13 - Google Gemini 1.5 1M Context Experiments
1:08:38 - If You Had AGI Tomorrow What Would You Do?
1:12:13 - OpenAI's DramaAI & Elon Musk Lawsuit
1:29:38 - Inflection 2.5 Release on Pi

This week we talk about the release of Mistral's Large model, Mistral Le Chat, and their deal with Microsoft Azure. We cover papers on Emote Portrait Alive, AI Lip Reading and Cover the Gemini Pile On and how it is distracting from Gemini and the 1M context size break through. We cover the great "data sale" of both Reddit, Tumblr and Stackoverflow data and discuss the Forecasting with LLM paper from Berkeley.  We also cover Klarna's 700 support agent replacing AI agents and ask... is Sydney Back with GPT-4.5?

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Cold open
00:44 - A Tough Week for AI Influencers
02:29 - Mistral Large, Mistral Le Chat & Microsoft Azure Partnership
30:31 - EMO: Emote Portrait Alive
36:26 - VSP-LLM: Visual Speech Processing incorporated with LLMs. AI Lip reading tech.
40:06 - The Google Gemini Pile On / Backlash: Is it taking attention away from 1M context breakthrough?
55:25 - The Great AI Training Data Sale: Reddit, Tumblr, Stackoverflow
1:00:34 - Forecasting with LLMs Paper: Can AI Predict The Future?
1:10:15 - Klarna Says They Replace 700 Humans with AI
1:18:07 - Is Microsoft's CoPilot Update Really GPT-4.5?

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Chapters:
00:00 - Groq, Groq API and Retell with Groq
32:48 - Google Gemma 7B Open Source Model
39:04 - The 'Magic' Breakthrough on Reasoning and Context
50:19 - Sounds for OpenAI Sora Thanks to ElevenLabs Sound FX
51:59 - ChatGPT Goes Haywire

This week we take several shots of vodka before trying to make sense of all the announcements. OpenAI attempted to trump Google's Gemini 1.5 with the announcement of Sora, 1 minute video generation that does an incredible job of keeping track of objects. Google showed us that up to 10M context windows are possible with multi-modal inputs. We discuss if a larger context window could end the need for RAG and take a first look at GraphRAG by Microsoft hoping to improve RAG with a knowledge graph. We road test Nvidia's ChatRTX on our baller graphics cards and Chris tries to delete all of his files using Microsoft UFO, a new open source project that uses GPT-4 vision to navigate and execute tasks on your Windows PC. We cover briefly V-JEPA (will try for next weeks show) and it's ability to learn through watching videos and listening, and finally discuss Stability's Stable Cascade which we've made available for "research" on SimTheory.

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Chapters:
00:00 - OpenAI's Sora That Creates Videos Instantly From Text
13:49 - ChatGPT Memory Released in Limited Preview
23:31 - OpenAI Rumored To Be Building Web Search, Andrej Karpathy Leaves OpenAI, Have OpenAI Slowed Down?
33:04 - Google Announces Gemini Pro 1.5. Huge Breakthrough 10M Context Window!
50:11 - Microsoft Research Publishes GraphRAG: Knowledge Graph Based RAG
1:02:03 - Nvidia's ChatRTX Road Tested
1:07:18 - AI Computers, AI PCs & Microsoft's UFO: An Agent for Window OS Interaction. Risk of AI Computers.
1:18:46 - Meta's V-JEPA: new architecture for self-supervised learning
1:24:26 - Stability AI's Stable Cascade

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This week we cover the launch of Google Gemini Advanced, Gemini Ultra 1.0 and Bard being Renamed to Gemini. We compare GPT-4, Gemini Ultra 1.0 and Qwen 1.5 72B by sports betting $1000 on horse racing.

We celebrate 50 episodes and share our excited for Qwen 1.5 72B's performance at coding and quick refusals. We cover new releases including SyncLabs and Retell AI and Apple's Open Source Guiding Instruction-based Image Editing via Multimodal Large Language Models.

Finally, we discuss GOODY-2 and it's high refusal rate.

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CHAPTERS:

00:00 - Betting $1,000 To Compare Gemini Ultra 1.0 to GPT-4 to Qwen 1.5
07:33 - Google Gemini Advanced, Ultra: Details of Announcement and First Impressions
25:48 - OpenAI is Developing Agents to Control Your Devices
27:40 - Celebrating 50 Episodes of This Day in AI
30:34 - Qwen 1.5 72B: We're Impressed!
42:47 - SyncLabs: Tested & Impressions
47:58 - Retell AI: Tested & Impressions
54:18 - Apple's Open Source Guiding Instruction-based Image Editing via Multimodal Large Language Models
58:10 - GOODY-2: The World's Most Responsible AI Model

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In this episode we reveal the new ThisDayinAI.com community website. We discuss the latest GPT-4 updates, Code Llama 70B open-source release and first impressions, we play around with the new LLaVA-1.6 release and are impressed by its capabilities. We also look at YOLO World and discuss the impact of EAGLE-7B and RWKV Language Models. Finally, we cover Bard's horrible new image creation feature and censorship. 

CHAPTERS:
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00:00 - Introducing ThisDayInAI.com Community
5:10 - Be Careful What You Wish For! Mike Gets Spam Called by AI
16:16 - OpenAI Announces "improved" GPT-4 Preview Model to Make GPT-4 Less Lazy
27:00 - LLaVA-1.6: Improved reasoning, OCR, and world knowledge
34:00 - YOLO-World: Real-Time Open-Vocabulary Object Detection
45:11 - RWKV an RNN with GPT-level LLM performance and EAGLE7B Impressions
58:16 - Google Bard's New Highly Censored Image Creation Feature
1:07:13 - Will Google Bard be Renamed to Google Gemini?

This week we discuss Mark Zuckerberg confirming Llama 3, road test Elevenlabs Voice Dubbing, the state of AI apps and subscriptions, practical use cases of AI interacting with our world, does RAG make ChatGPT worse? Prompt compression with LongLLMLingua and how it might solve the attention problem, experiments with new image models including PhotoMaker and some LOLs to end the show.

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MidJourney 6 on SimTheory:
https://simtheory.ai/agent/395-midjourney-image-creator
MidJourney 6 Video Creator:
https://simtheory.ai/agent/400-animate-midjourney-images

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CHAPTERS
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00:00 - Mark Zuckerberg Confirmed Llama 2 In Training
03:39 - Elevenlabs Voice Dubbing Service Tested
09:28 - Discussion on Research Labs, Apps & Future of AI App Business Models
18:43 - Bland.ai Update with Real World Examples & The Future of AI Agents & Agency interacting with our "analogue world"
30:56 - Nick Dobos Says RAG Makes ChatGPT Worse. Can Compression Help?
35:32 - LongLLMLingua and Prompt Compression
46:45 - Image Models: Photo Maker & Experiments with Image Generation
1:01:45 - LOLs including Rabbit r1 Fail, Claude Multi-Modal Leak, DPD Chat

SOURCES
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeemJlrNx2Q
https://twitter.com/Stocktwits/status/1748043532340789570
https://twitter.com/danhendrycks/status/1749316795138552228
https://elevenlabs.io/dubbing
https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1750199867308433634
https://twitter.com/NickADobos/status/1749837866300264529?s=20
https://twitter.com/NickADobos/status/1749957909449187837?s=20
https://lumiere-video.github.io/
https://twitter.com/felix_red_panda/status/1749522604027682946?s=20
https://twitter.com/andrewcurran_/status/1747661100865511750?s=46
https://twitter.com/ashbeauchamp/status/1748034519104450874?s=20

PAPERS
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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.06839.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.06839.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.04461v1.pdf

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In this episode, we dive into the buzz around GPT-5, sparked by Sam Altman's revelations on Bill Gates' latest podcast. We share our top hopes and dreams for GPT-5 and future AI advancements. Next, we delve into Microsoft's new CoPilot Pro Subscription, exploring how it stands out from ChatGPT Plus. Chris takes AutoGen Studio for a spin and ponders over its ideal user base. The episode then shifts to the intriguing concept of collaborative AI agents - is this the path to AI's mastering reasoning, reflection, and profound thought? We dissect the insights from the SeeAct Web Agents study, assessing its influence on AI agent development. Shifting gears, we discuss Google AMIE's groundbreaking ability to outperform doctors in diagnoses, even those assisted by AI. To wrap up, we spotlight the significance of Anthropic's Sleeper Agents experiment and its groundbreaking findings.

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00:00 - Cold Open
00:31 - GTP-5 Rumors & Leaks
07:32 - Microsoft CoPilot Pro
22:27 - Microsoft's AutoGen Studio: An open-source UI for AutoGen
38:53 - The Future of AI Agents? LAMs and SeeACT Web Agent Paper
1:00:19 - Google AMIE: Can AI Replace Doctors for Diagnosis?
1:13:12 -Anthropic's Sleep Agents Experiment

SOURCES:
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https://twitter.com/arrakis_ai/status/1745672203683942863?s=20
https://twitter.com/daniacostaai/status/1746554047878824409?s=46
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/01/15/bringing-the-full-power-of-copilot-to-more-people-and-businesses/
https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1747359731595763817
https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/blog/2023/12/01/AutoGenStudio/
https://osu-nlp-group.github.io/SeeAct/
https://blog.research.google/2024/01/amie-research-ai-system-for-diagnostic_12.html
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-14/artificial-intelligence-will-affect-almost-40-of-jobs-imf-says
https://twitter.com/Teknium1/status/1746067427379798344

PAPERS:
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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.01614.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.05654.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.05566.pdf

In this episode we put Bland.ai to the test. We try out their new AI technology for voice calls that can react and respond in near real time by prank calling our local hardware and pet stores.

We also discuss the launch of more AI dedicated hardware in the Rabit r1, the GPT Store now it's finally released with over 3M GPTs, discuss GPT Teams, LUMA, AudioBox and ask, are we in an AI bubble?

If you like this episode please consider liking, subscribing and commenting. Thanks for watching!

CHAPTERS
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00:00 - Our call to the hardware store
00:30 - Bland.ai Voice Calling with AI
03:04 - Prank Calling a Hardware Store with AI
11:21 - Calling a Pet Grooming Store with AI
18:15 - Thoughts in AI Hardware, Cherry Picked AI Demos & Rabit r1
35:35 - OpenAI Releases GPT Store with 3M GPTs, Cloning Problem & Initial Reactions
45:22 - OpenAI Releases ChatGPT Teams
47:57 - ChatGPT Memory
49:26 - LUMA Genie, The Metaverse & Vision Pro Apps
55:05 - The AI Jailbreak Problem & Rethinking Persuasion to Challenge AI Safety by Humanizing LLMs
1:00:52 - Meta AudioBox
1:03:38 - Microsoft Overtakes Apple as Most Valuable Company - Is it because of AI? And is AI a Bubble?

SOURCES:
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https://twitter.com/usebland/status/1743411488612913429
https://chats-lab.github.io/persuasive_jailbreaker/
https://www.rabbit.tech/
https://twitter.com/Dan_Jeffries1/status/1745404485298459106
https://twitter.com/abacaj/status/1745474794638745892?s=20
https://twitter.com/AravSrinivas/status/1745489529551905159
https://openai.com/blog/introducing-the-gpt-store
https://twitter.com/NickADobos/status/1745244031381291164/photo/2
https://twitter.com/AndrewCurran_/status/1744918982174429432?s=20
https://openai.com/blog/introducing-chatgpt-team
https://lumalabs.ai/genie
https://audiobox.metademolab.com/maker
https://www.miri.health/

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AI Movie Trailer Maker: https://simtheory.ai/agent/279-ai-movie-trailer-maker

CHAPTERS:
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00:00 - Mike's AI Movie Trailer Intro
02:05 - GPT Store Will go Live Next Week
22:52 - Gemini Pro API & Gemini Pro Vision Road Tested (literally)
33:34 - Mixtral API: Mistral Platform API Tested
45:31 - Stable Video Diffusion
48:12 - Pika AI Video General Availability
52:05 - Stability AI Memberships
55:54 - Prompt Injection for DALL-E with Public Domain
57:34 - New York Times Sues OpenAI & Microsoft for Copyright Infringement
1:04:49 - Inpainting with AnyText
1:14:15 - Microsoft CoPilot App with GPT-4 Now On iOS and Android
1:14:39 - One More Thing: The Dishwasher Bot

SOURCES:
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https://time.com/6551496/mickey-mouse-public-domain-steamboat-willie/
https://twitter.com/digthatdata/status/1742074049260621976?s=46
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/dec/27/new-york-times-openai-microsoft-lawsuit
https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-explores-ai-deals-with-news-publishers-new-york-times-2023-12-22/
https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1742967393310368222/photo/1
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/openai-to-launch-chatbot-store-next-week?rc=kvsmhw
https://blog.google/technology/ai/gemini-api-developers-cloud/
https://mistral.ai/news/mixtral-of-experts/
https://mistral.ai/news/la-plateforme/
https://stability.ai/news/stable-video-diffusion-open-ai-video-model
https://simtheory.ai/share/d49c8c00-9fda-40aa-b386-a7c27455015b/
https://pika.art/
https://stability.ai/membership
https://twitter.com/venturetwins/status/1742976476432196100?s=46
https://github.com/tyxsspa/anytext
https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/29/24019288/microsoft-copilot-app-available-iphone-ipad-ai
https://mobile-aloha.github.io/

In our final episode for the year, we cover the surprise announcement of Google's Gemini AI models and give our first impressions. We road test Gemini Pro on Bard and discuss the likely impact of Gemini on the market and developer ecosystems. Then it's time for our holiday gift: SimTheory. Now you can use AI agents we mention on the show including our virtual girlfriends, Sports Betting with AI and many more! You can even create your own agents to try different models using the same tools we use to prepare for the show. We then discuss if Ilya is OK and the drama at OpenAI. And finally, we make predictions for 2024 and cover some of Meta's latest announcements.

Thanks for watching, listening and all your support through 2023. We really appreciate it and will see you early next year!

CHAPTERS:
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00:00 - Google Gemini is Here? Kinda
38:48 - Our Holiday Gift: SimTheory: Virtual Girlfriend, Sports Betting with AI Agents
51:15 - Is Ilya OK? Is GPT-4 Slowness About Cost Reductions?
56:26 - NexusRaven-V2-13B for function calling: is this the future of specialized fine tune models?
1:00:14 - Our Predictions for AI in 2024
1:12:54 - Meta announces AI Alliance for AI Openness + Updates to Meta AI Characters and SeamlessExpressive
1:15:43 - Final thoughts and thank you

SOURCES:
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https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemini-ai/
https://twitter.com/tunguz/status/1732444203437695387
https://twitter.com/tunguz/status/1732444203437695387
https://twitter.com/tunguz/status/1732444203437695387
https://twitter.com/tunguz/status/1732444203437695387
https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/07/early-impressions-of-googles-gemini-arent-great/
https://twitter.com/clementdelangue/status/1732138699901809042
https://huggingface.co/Nexusflow/NexusRaven-V2-13B
https://twitter.com/abemurray/status/1732723510810759369
https://ai.meta.com/blog/ai-alliance
https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/06/metas-ai-characters-are-now-live-across-its-u-s-apps-with-support-for-bing-search-and-better-memory/
https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/06/meta-ai-adds-reels-support-and-reimagine-a-way-to-generate-new-ai-images-in-group-chats/
https://seamless.metademolab.com/expressive
https://twitter.com/mattrickard/status/1731889331516936261

This week we celebrate ChatGPT's 1 Year Anniversary and Ask is GPT-4 Lazy? We explore the best of open source with Wizard 33B and test China's Qwen 72B model from Alibaba. Chris tries to delete all files from his computer using Self Operation AI Computer and we cover Amazon's AWS Ignite AI announcements, Stability Diffusion XL Turbo, The Scalable Extraction Attack on ChatGPT and an exciting waitlist release from PIKA. 

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CHAPTERS:
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00:00 - Cold Open
00:08 - ChatGPT 1 Year Anniversary
07:54 - Is GPT-4 Lazy? Is Claude Unusable Now?   
18:43 - Are Open-Source Models Catching Up 1 Year On?
21:57 - Wizard 33B Open-Source Model
24:55 - Demo of Wizard 33B
28:26 - China's Qwen 72B Open-Source Model
31:26 - Qwen Demo
38:16 - Self Operation Computer Discussion & The Future of AI With Access to Computers
49:23 - Scalable Extraction: DeepMind's COMPANY attack to extract training data from ChatGPT
55:20 - Stability Diffusion XL Turbo, Stability's Stability & Commercial Subscriptions
1:03:23 - Amazon's AWS Ignite: Amazon Q, Trainium 2, Bedrock Fine Tuning
1:07:49 - PIKA Video
1:09:26 - Important News

SOURCES:
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https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/11/chatgpt-was-the-spark-that-lit-the-fire-under-generative-ai-one-year-ago-today/
https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1729604442826170586?s=46
https://twitter.com/krishnanrohit/status/1729353613498261597?s=46
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.16989.pdf
https://twitter.com/huybery/status/1730127387109781932/photo/1
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.16609.pdf
https://github.com/OthersideAI/self-operating-computer/tree/main
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.17035.pdf
https://twitter.com/ayushsoni_io/status/1730128497572462695
https://stability.ai/news/stability-ai-sdxl-turbo
https://pika.art/
https://venturebeat.com/ai/amazon-awss-barrage-of-gen-ai-announcements-aim-to-outdo-microsoft/

This week we reluctantly cover all the OpenAI drama and ask What Did Sam Altman Actually Do? Is Q* a path to AGI or just one big "look over here" distraction so we stop asking all these questions... We also cover Andrej Karpathy's LLM OS vision, discuss Claude 2.1 and how bad it's become thanks to "safety" and discuss our initial impressions of Stable Video Diffusion. Finally, we have some fun with Suno!

If you like this podcast, please consider subscribing and liking this episode. We appreciate the support.

CHAPTERS:
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00:00 - A Full Recap of What Happened with Sam Altman & OpenAI
10:06 - What Did Sam Altman Actually Do? 
28:03 - What Did Ilya Really Discover? Is Q* A Big Distraction? How Far Ahead if OpenAI?
40:47 - Will This Drama Help Progress Open Source AI?
51:11 - Is Andrej Karpathy's LLM OS Vision The Future?
1:00:25 - Inflection-2 LLM
1:02:35 - Stable Video Diffusion Initial Thoughts
1:06:40 - Claude 2.1 Announcement 200K Context
1:21:26 Fun with Suno AI: Make Music with a Prompt

SOURCES:
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https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/openais-employee-share-sale-to-continue-after-altman-returns?rc=kvsmhw
https://twitter.com/openai/status/1727236805182026159?s=46
https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition
https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1727727656118923296?s=46
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-dramas-first-season-ends-but-second-season-is-possible?rc=kvsmhw
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-made-an-ai-breakthrough-before-altman-firing-stoking-excitement-and-concern?rc=kvsmhw
https://inflection.ai/inflection-2
https://stability.ai/news/stable-video-diffusion-open-ai-video-model
https://www.anthropic.com/index/claude-2-1
https://app.suno.ai/
https://www.reuters.com/technology/sam-altmans-ouster-openai-was-precipitated-by-letter-board-about-ai-breakthrough-2023-11-22/

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This week we discuss what's happened since OpenAI's Dev Day: Sam Altman has stopped ChatGPT Plus Subscriptions Due to Demand, GPTs have been leaking their prompts and data, and thousands of people have been busy creating GPTs... but are they any good? We also discuss Microsoft AI Ignite and share our thoughts on Microsoft's new Azure Hardware, Microsoft CoPilot Studio, Azure AI Studio and all the other Microsoft AI Ignite News. We discuss can Open-Source AI Now Compete with GPT-4? And Cover Google Lyria Music AI and Meta's EMU Video and Emu Edit.

CHAPTERS:
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00:00 - OpenAI Stops Taking GPT Plus Subscribers. Subscription for sale on eBay
1:30 - Are GPTs Just a New Enthusiasm Phase, The Future or All Hype?
16:28 - Will GPTs just Become Functions and Processes with Proprietary Data?
22:53 - Early GPT Data Leaks & Unsafe Prompts
24:05 - Monetization of GPTs
29:24 - Microsoft AI Ignite: Azure Chips, Microsoft CoPilot Studio, Azure AI Studio
43:41 - Can Open-Source AI Now Compete with GPT-4? 
48:27 - The OpenAI Dilemma: Microsoft & Open Source Threats
50:58 - What are The Killer Use Cases for AI?
56:50 - Google Lyria: The Future of Music Creation?
1:02:52 - Meta's EMU Video and Emu Edit AI research milestones.

SOURCES:
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https://twitter.com/sdand/status/1724629169483719104/photo/1
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/openai-pauses-new-chatgpt-plus-subscriptions-due-to-surge-in-demand/501360/
https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1722744926004269309?s=46
https://twitter.com/fzaslavskiy/status/1723731923149754542?s=46
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/transforming-the-future-of-music-creation/
https://ai.meta.com/blog/emu-text-to-video-generation-image-editing-research/
https://emu-video.metademolab.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFkCGTb7Z8E
https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/15/23960417/microsoft-copilot-ai-studio-custom-gpts-chatgpt-openai
https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/15/23960471/microsoft-windows-ai-studio-nvidia-developers
https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/goliath-120b-GGUF?text=Hey+my+name+is+Julien%21+How+are+you%3F
https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/
https://twitter.com/hamelhusain/status/1722637811176902779?s=46

Dive into the riveting world of AI development with Mike & Chris and their deep dive into OpenAI's latest offerings, including the much-anticipated GPTs. From the technical nitty-gritty to the potential for monetization, this podcast peels back the layers of AI's future. The bros hands-on experience with creating custom AI models reveals the reality behind the hype, offering a candid look at the promises versus the actual deliverables in the AI industry. Whether you're an AI aficionado or a tech enthusiast, this episode is your front-row seat to the unfolding narrative of AI's capabilities and its impact on the tech landscape.

CHAPTERS:
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00:00 - Recap & Thoughts on Custom GPTs, GPT "Apps", GPT Store and Future GPTs
38:41 - GPT-4 Turbo, GPT-4 Vision & 128k Context Possibilities
50:43 - GPT-4 Vision as part of GPT-4 Turbo API
53:54: Fine Tuning Models for Speed & Cost
56:09 - Assistants API: Vendor Lock In?
58:06 - Wrapper Apps, GPT discoverability and Monetization of GPTs
1:08:54 - Was GPT3.5 Default 16k Turbo The Biggest Announcement?
1:12:53 - OpenAI TTS Text To Speech Voices: Better than Eleven Labs & PlayHT?
1:15:35 - What Google Would Need to Deliver with Gemini to Win Back Devs
1:15:50 - Fine Tuning Custom GPT Models for Custom GPTs
1:18:38 - GPT-4 Fien Tuning Experimental Access
1:22:16 - Is a UI SDK next for Custom GPTs?
1:24:34 - Custom Trained Models from OpenAI for $2-3M
1:25:57 - Will Hardware Kill OpenAI? Is Hardware Distribution Key for Apple and Google to Win Long Term?
1:30:42 - Other AI News from the Week: GitHub CoPilot AI First & GH200s

SOURCES:
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https://openai.com/blog/new-models-and-developer-products-announced-at-devday
https://twitter.com/altryne/status/1721989500291989585?s=20
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/almost-an-agent-what-gpts-can-do
https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1721977139938185492?s=46
https://twitter.com/BenjaminDEKR/status/1722397663939965170/photo/2
https://github.com/langchain-ai/opengpts
https://openai.com/blog/introducing-gpts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFM2pvj00oc

Sharkey and Sharkey amped up on caffeine live react to OpenAI's latest announcements. Cost reductions, larger models, and an app store?! The duo banter and bicker about whether this marks excitement or irrelevance for devs like you. Plus Elon Musk teases a GPT-style model without the handcuffs - does this spell trouble for Big Sam? Sharkey and Sharkey think out loud and solicit hot takes from listeners on the implications.

We cover:

• All the news from OpenAI DevDay
• Reactions from our community
• xAI Grok (briefly)
• GPTs and the GPT store

Join the discord: https://discord.gg/sA6anFq2
Get the merch: https://thisdayinaimerch.com

This week the AI guys unpack the White House's sweeping executive order on regulating AI - will this lead to the death of open-source models? They also discuss the vague and fluffy Bletchley Declaration signed by world leaders, why Geoffrey Hinton just won't stop fearmongering, and introduce some hilarious new merch including a life-size shower curtain! Tune in for hot takes on the AI ethics debate, prompt engineering tricks, and key insights on the future of language models.

CHAPTERS:
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00:00 - King Charles on AI (Cold Open)
00:20 - Thoughts on White House AI Executive Order 
23:09 - The Bletchley Declaration & AI Safety Summit
38:04 -  LoRA Fine-tuning Efficiently Undoes Safety Training in Llama 2 & They Killed Tay!
48:34 - Adversarial Attacks and Defenses in Large Language Models: Old and New Threats Paper
51:51 - Mike proposes What The Future of AI Computing Might Look Like
55:00 - Leaked: The Secret Prompt Powering ChatGPT's New Multi-Tool Mode (and How to Hack It)

1:01:39 - Anthropic Have Raised More Billions & Our Merch Store!

SOURCES:
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https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/10/30/executive-order-on-the-safe-secure-and-trustworthy-development-and-use-of-artificial-intelligence/
https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/what-the-executive-order-means-for
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-safety-summit-2023-the-bletchley-declaration/the-bletchley-declaration-by-countries-attending-the-ai-safety-summit-1-2-november-2023
https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-and-demis-hassabis-just-want-to-control-ai-2023-10
https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1718263147591573949?s=20
https://twitter.com/ldjconfirmed/status/1718456393026490523
Leaked Prompt: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spdustin/ChatGPT-AutoExpert/main/_system-prompts/all_tools.md
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/27/google-commits-to-invest-2-billion-in-openai-competitor-anthropic.html

PAPERS:
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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.17688.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.20624.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.19737v1.pdf