AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends

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 will learn from the real world. We talk agentic sys...

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 Generation  prompts, ChatGPT as a social network, the old...

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 4o Image Generation formats & the weirdest robot...

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 Runway Gen-4 is here and it's VERY good, OmniHuman-1 d...

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 sorry for this, but a LOT of talk about AI Big Bo...

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 MAX is already here but not many people know. **GO...

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 with big results, multiple new AI-to-video pipelines...

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 effects and Kevin vibe-coded a multi-player game of bl...

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 is on the way and we'll tell you why, China's Alib...

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 out for the death of the Humane AI pin and so much...

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 which makes realistic AI influencers and we play w...

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 Robot experience normalizes humanoid robots and SPEC...

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. Meanwhile, Apple's pretty happy with their position...

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) is VERY good, hands on with Hailuo's Minimax Char...

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). BRB, WE GOTTA PREP FOR THE SINGULARITY Y'ALL! J...

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 might help us stave off disease, and all the robot va...

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 episode for the holidays (one day behind schedule) but...

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 Whisk tool is a fun AI toy and we meet an angry old ma...

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 talks about his hands-on experience with OpenAI's Sora...

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 heat, Google's Gen Chess AND OH SO MUCH MORE. Join th...

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) episode of AI For Humans. Plus, the return of a very...

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 voice mode, AI's Manhattan Project, Kevin gives us a l...

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 *great* and China's Deep Robotics showcases an off-roa...

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 generative AI video game making people mad, a bunch of AI...

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 AI image model, MuVi brings automatic soundtracks t...