Kevin Pereira & Gavin Purcell

AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends

Fast Company called AI For Humans 'the most entertaining way to learn about artificial intelligence.' Every Thursday, hosts Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell break down the biggest AI news, tools, and breakthroughs, so you can stay ahead without losing your mind. Whether you're AI-curious or deep in the game, this is your weekly reset on everything that matters in artificial intelligence.

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Kevin Pereira & Gavin Purcell

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Jul 10, 2026

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Episodes

Anthropic's New AI Agent, OpenAI Plays Catch-up, Runway's Act-One & More AI News 24.10.2024

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 uncensored. AND OH SO MUCH MORE.   It's a big, massi...

Massive AI Update From Adobe, Tech Companies Go Nuclear & ChatGPT Knows Too Much 17.10.2024

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. Plus updates from Suno, a hit Instagram restaurant...

Nobel Prizes For AI Scientists, OpenAI's New Canvas Tool & Huge AI Video Updates 10.10.2024

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 shows off incredible-yet-unreleased AI video tools...

OpenAI Is Worth $150B Now, NotebookLM Takes Over & More AI News 03.10.2024

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 was vetoed in California & Google's NotebookLM is th...

Next Gen AI Is Here: Meta Connect, OpenAI Advanced Voice & More 26.09.2024

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 away from Super Intelligence, Google updated Gemini 1...

Major Hollywood Studio AI, OpenAI's New Model Gets Better & More AI News 19.09.2024

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 creation tool just got a lil more Guy Fieri.  AI For...

OpenAI's Strawberry Two Weeks Out... But What Is it? Plus, More AI News! 12.09.2024

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 prediction engine and Oprah is taking on AI. Yes, that...

New Billion Dollar Start-up From Ex-OpenAI Founder, GPT-Next Is Coming (We Think) & More AI News 05.09.2024

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 online, Amazon's Alexa is getting Claude, MaxMin is...

OpenAI's Strawberry & Project Orion, Cursor AI Makes Programming Easy & More Huge AI News 29.08.2024

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 (some for good reason) and a big AI regulation bi...

Ideogram & Flux Make AI Imaging Too Realistic, OpenAI Updates & More AI News 22.08.2024

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 into production and we use Hedra and a bunch of other...

Grok-2 Is Actually Good, Google's Huge AI Updates & More AI News 15.08.2024

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 special guest co-host Ben Relles who worked at YouT...

OpenAI Spirals Into Chaos... Can 'Strawberry' Save it & More AI News 08.08.2024

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 from and get a visit from ol' Good Guy AI to talk all...

OpenAI's GPT-4o Voice Alpha Release, Midjourney & Runway GEN-3 Updates & More AI News 01.08.2024

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're on vacation but still did this" episode… We'l...

Meta's New Llama 3.1 is great, OpenAI's GPT-4o Mini & Adobe's AI Update 25.07.2024

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/AIForHumansShow Follow us for more on X @AIForHuma...

Big Tech Rips YouTube For AI, OpenAI's New AGI Rules & the Shifting Political Landscape of AI 18.07.2024

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 favorite new AI videos that we absolutely love. Foll...

Is AI Dying? Plus, OpenAI Leaves China, Hollywood-ready AI Video & a new AI Debate 11.07.2024

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 of REALITY. Oh, and Nicolas Cage doesn't like AI. /...

Sam Altman Hints at GPT-5, Hands-on with Runway Gen-3 & So Much Robot News 04.07.2024

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 model software, and a whole lotta robots in a ne...

Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Reigns as OpenAI Slips, AI Music Lawsuits & More AI News 27.06.2024

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 generator from our friends at GLIF, and awesome new...

New AI Video Tools Take on Hollywood, Where is GPT-4o Voice & Intergalactic Adverts 20.06.2024

The Runway Gen-3 Alpha video model is one of a few new AI tools which has us exploring the impact of AI on Hollywood; including the LumaLabs Dream Machine, GoogleDeepmind advancements in video-to-audio technology and a potential decline in larger productions. We discuss the Microsoft Co-Pilot+ PCs launch and the expectations around GPT-4o's voice model.. Plus, we introduce a new AI video tool, Hed...

Apple Intelligence, OpenAI's Sora Has Competition & Much More AI News 13.06.2024

Apple Intelligence gives us a lot to unpack, from a new Siri, to an Image model and specifically about how well its privacy wall will work with OpenAI. And oh boy Elon Musk is MAD about it.  Then, a Chinese AI video company (Kring AI) and LumaVision AI are turning up the heat on OpenAI's Sora and go deeper on both in our big 'Prompt-To-Hollywood' extravaganza. Plus, Stable Diffusion 3 Medium is he...

Will AGI Really Happen in 2027?? Plus, NVIDIA's New Tech & More Insane AI News 06.06.2024

Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!   This week, a new paper from Leopold Aschenbrenner, a former OpenAI employee, dropped that has AGI hitting as soon as 2027 just as the New York Times broke news on other ex-OpenAI whistleblowers. Maybe we're not ready for any of this?   Plus, NVIDIA shows off new AI tech at Computrex, Tooncrafter is a cool new AI tool designed to make animation supe...

OpenAI's GPT-5 and Drama, Apple's Black Box & Other Huge AI News 30.05.2024

PLEASE REVIEW US. WE NEED VALIDATION. OpenAI's new model is in training, but is it GPT-5 or GPT-6? Did Sam Altman lie to the board before he was fired? Former board member Helen Toner says so. Plus, Apple's "black box" AI might lead to an incredible announcement at WWDC. THEN… OpenAI signs deals with VoxMedia and The Atlantic, GitHub's CEO talks about AI turning prompters into programmers, a visua...

OpenAI's Very Bad Week, Microsoft's Huge AI Event & Scarlett Johansson is Not Happy 23.05.2024

OpenAI had one of the worst possible weeks yet with three major issues and the Scarlett Johansson mess just keeps getting worse. Plus, the California Senate passed an AI bill that looks pretty bad for now but Anthropic actually learned something about the black box that is AI so…that's good? Microsoft's Satya Nadella made moves at their big Microsoft Build 2024 event & introduced a ton of new AI i...

OpenAI Drama, GPT-4o is VERY good & Google I/O AI Insanity 16.05.2024

OpenAI's co-founder Ilya Sutskever is out and big questions are swirling around AI alignment, GPT-4o is OpenAI's brand new model & it's VERY good and Google bring's a lot (maybe too much) AI to it's annual Google I/O event. We got it all! The 'o' in GPT-4o stands for 'omni' meaning that it can do audio/voice, text and video all at the same time and in today's demo they showed off not only those re...

Microsoft Vs OpenAI, NVIDIA's Learning Robots & New Sora Features 09.05.2024

REVIEW THE POD YA DAMN ROBOTS This week... Microsoft has greenlit a big new AI model. Is it a sign that it's distancing itself from OpenAI? Did OpenAI make the mysterious im-a-gpt-chatbot and why are there TWO of them now?  Will NVIDIA's Dr. Eureka's robot learning lead to a robot that can finally do our dishes? And why, even with the announcment of the M4 chip, was Apple's iPad event such an AI l...

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