COEY Cast

Creators and marketers are staring down a new reality at CES 2026 where AI moves from the cloud to your laptop and even your speaker. This episode breaks down Liquid AI’s LFM 2.5 open weight models, NVIDIA’s RTX AI Garage for local creator pipelines, and LG xBOOM AI Karaoke Master as a blueprint for experiential content and UGC remix booths. Hear how on device agents change transcription, brand sa...

NVIDIA teases Project Cosmos and the push toward physics aware world models that generate synthetic data for robots, warehouses, and digital twins. The conversation explores how this pattern can simulate workflows for retail, marketing, and CX, plus why validation loops matter more than hype. Then it dives into in car AI with Step Audio 2, emotional voice presence, and what it takes to embed low l...

Sora 2 physics are leveling up, but logos and hands are still the final boss for marketers who need object permanence and brand safety. Seedance 1.5 Pro collapses prompt to video and native audio into a single pass, raising new questions about localization, cadence, and creative review at scale. Kling Omni teases a unified video brain that can generate, edit, and reason across clips, which is powe...

Open weight does not mean open season. This episode digs into Zhipu AI’s GLM 4.7 as an open weight coding powerhouse and why licensing, safety, and reliability still matter for real workflows. Get a clear breakdown of open source versus open weight, where the costs and risks actually land, and how marketers can use GLM 4.7 for content ops, campaign glue, and “marketing engineering.” Explore K EXAO...

Qwen Image 2512 drops open weights and suddenly every marketer is rethinking product photos, text in image, and where designers actually sit in the workflow. This episode breaks down practical use cases like e-commerce imagery at scale, brand safe visual pipelines, and how to treat open models like cameras with receipts. Then it shifts to Stable Audio 2.0 for sonic branding, audio style guides, an...

Creators and marketers are staring down a new era of AI that can literally click, speak, and ship content at scale. This episode breaks down Microsoft Fara 7B for GUI automation, what it is good for, where it can wreck your ad account, and how to sandbox it with real guardrails. It also covers NVIDIA Nemotron 30B open source efficiency for cheaper copy and agents, plus Resemble AI Chatterbox Turbo...

DeepSeek V3.2 open weights are lighting up X and creators are testing what “agents for the people” really looks like. This episode breaks down why open weights matter for campaign ops agents, where self hosting gets painful, and how to keep workflows portable instead of married to one vendor. It also covers HyperCLOVA X SEED Think for Korean and Japanese teams, with concrete guardrails for custome...

Multimodal models just leveled up from vibes to coordinates. This episode breaks down how Molmo 2, Phi 3 Vision, and Reka Core change creative workflows for marketers and media teams. Learn why grounding and timestamps make ad review and video search automation ready, and where they still fail hard. Get practical about open weights versus enterprise APIs, edge AI for field reps, and how to design...

ByteDance Seedance 1.5 Pro is pushing synchronized audio and video that could delete whole layers of post production glue work while making localization way easier. Qwen 3 TTS Flash brings three second voice cloning and custom voice design, which forces real conversations about consent, brand voice registries, and synthetic characters instead of copying real people. Inception Labs Mercury tests di...

Google Gemini 3 Flash speeds up “agent” style workflows, so marketers can finally hand off campaign housekeeping and asset prep without risking budget chaos. NotebookLM grounding, Gems, and QA patterns help keep hallucinated claims out of decks and landing pages. Runway Gen 4.5 levels up realism for synthetic product b roll while Adobe integration pushes it deeper into existing pipelines. Fun Audi...

AI video tools are leveling up fast. Hunter and Riley break down how Higgsfield’s WAN 2.6 fits into the open source debate and what “actually open” means for creators who want control of their pipeline. They explain practical text to video workflows using storyboards and reference bibles to keep characters and environments consistent. Then they dig into Luma Ray 3 Modify for “shoot in post” ads, h...

Google is expanding ads inside AI Overviews and quietly rewriting how search works for creators, marketers, and ecommerce teams. The focus shifts from blue links to generated narratives where brands can rent a line in the answer layer. Learn how to think about measurement when impressions are vibes, design creative for Spark Deep Dive and Dialogue moments, and make your content machine legible so...

AI Festivus hits model land with real grievances and real workflows. Hunter and Riley break down what GLM 4.7 actually changes for messy, real world tasks and why “thinking modes” should not be wasted on beige tweets. They unpack Anthropic Agent Skills as a possible open standard, including supply chain risks, governance, and how skills can quietly go rogue. Then it is into Shopify’s AI discovery...

Claude Opus 4.5 is getting hyped as a co writer, Google Ads is rolling out Brand Profiles for Performance Max, and Google is pushing on device automation with FunctionGemma. This episode digs into how to use Claude as an editor plus without sanding the soul out of your brand, how to feed Performance Max brand inputs without ending up with beige AI smoothies, and why real footage and weird POV stil...

Salesforce is buying Qualified and turning chat from a website widget into a revenue operations layer inside the CRM. Hunter and Riley break down what agent owned workflows should actually handle like routing, enrichment and scheduling and what should stay human like notes and strategy. They dig into how to build an accountable agent stack with policy as code, typed inputs and real audit trails. T...

OpenAI rolls out new realtime audio snapshots in the Realtime API and a fresh wave of call summary automation. Think transcripts, intent extraction, CRM updates, and coaching notes without the ten hour listening marathon. The conversation digs into reliability, confirmation loops, human handoff, and how open source voice stacks can realistically compete. Then Hazel enters the chat as a new flagshi...

NVIDIA Nemotron 3, Google Gemini 3 Flash, and LinkedIn Reserved Ads all push the same agenda: speed and predictability as a strategy. Learn what “open” really means for Nemotron 3 Nano, where free endpoints get risky, and why hybrid Mixture of Experts matters for real agent workflows. Explore how low latency multimodal models change content creation, campaign iteration, and on-device privacy. Then...

Microsoft pulls Azure AI Foundry into VS Code so teams can build, evaluate, and ship AI assistants without living in twelve dashboards. Google launches Ads Advisor and Analytics Advisor while quietly testing sponsored placements inside AI Mode, blending ads directly into AI answers. PubMatic and Butler Till push agentic AI for connected TV, raising big questions about guardrails, brand safety, and...

Google is testing ads directly inside AI Overviews and AI Mode, turning the answer box into prime ad real estate. Hunter and Riley break down what happens when one synthesized AI verdict also carries sponsored picks, and how that impacts trust across search. They dig into Performance Max workflows, brand safety, and why structured, proof-backed content becomes survival gear. The conversation zooms...

GPT 5.2, NVIDIA Nemotron 3 open weights, and PolyAI Raven 3 are reshaping how creators and marketers automate work. This episode breaks down what GPT 5.2’s Instant, Thinking, and Pro modes actually mean for content and campaign workflows, and how to validate “reasoning” with artifacts, structure, and second pass checks. Learn where Nemotron 3 fits in open agent stacks, why orchestration and shared...

Disney is licensing hundreds of Disney Marvel Star Wars and Pixar characters into OpenAI Sora which unlocks brand safe generative video while tightening control over how IP gets used. The conversation digs into what this means for creators who want licensed chaos versus open source freedom and how pipelines will change. It also covers Google Ads new AI Advisors how to safely offload PPC grunt work...

AI generated beauty ads are now outperforming human creative on click through rate, until people find out they are AI made. This episode breaks down why fully AI generated ads beat human and hybrid workflows, what the “disclosure penalty” means for marketers, and how to frame AI use without tanking performance. It also digs into Salesforce Agentforce 360 observability for marketing agents, and wha...

Agent standards are heating up and the martech stack is feeling it. This episode breaks down the Linux Foundation Agentic AI Foundation, OpenAI’s agents.md style spec, and why “standards” might either unlock interoperability or just tighten vendor lock in. The conversation connects agent governance to real workflows like lifecycle marketing, customer support, and CRM write access. It also covers C...

GPT 5.2, Gemini, DeepSeek, routers, and agents all walked into the same week. This episode breaks down when to use GPT 5.2 Instant, Thinking, or Pro for marketing ops, analytics, and high stakes reporting. It compares DeepSeek V3.2 and Speciale against GPT and Gemini for reasoning heavy tasks and open weight deployment. It covers Gemini Deep Research, the Interactions API, and practical patterns t...

Runway Gen 4.5 just dropped and the benchmark charts are loud, but what actually matters for creators is workflow. This episode breaks down how Gen 4.5 stacks up against Sora 2, Veo 3, Pika, and Luma for real marketing pipelines. Learn when to use image to video, video to video, and text to video for brand safe ads, b roll, and social refreshes. Get practical governance tactics for deepfake risk,...