COEY Cast

Audio just stopped being a side feature and started looking like core workflow infrastructure. This conversation tracks three big signals behind that shift. Tencent’s open Covo Audio pushes toward more natural voice interaction with lower latency and better interruption handling. Cohere’s open speech recognition model could unlock cheaper, faster transcription for meetings, podcasts, support, and...

Leaked frontier model chatter is loud, but the bigger story is workflow. Anthropic's rumored Claude Mythos, also called Capybara in some corners, and OpenAI's rumored Spud show how fast the model race keeps shifting. The real takeaway for creators and marketers is not to rebuild around leaks or wait for the next flagship. It is to build model agnostic systems with evals, guardrails, and human revi...

Audio just jumped from nice to have to workflow priority. Google’s Lyria 3 Pro pushes AI music closer to usable campaign assets with longer, more structured tracks that fit real production needs. Open source PrismAudio tackles one of post production’s most annoying problems by matching sound effects and environmental audio to what is actually happening on screen. Mistral adds another important sig...

Claude is moving from chatbot to operator, and that changes the automation conversation fast. This covers what Anthropic's computer use push really means for teams, where AI agents can save time today, and why brittle workflows still break the fantasy of full autonomy. It also digs into Microsoft's MAI Image 2 and why better text rendering matters more than flashy demos for marketers who need usab...

Luma UNI1, Pika 2.2, and ElevenLabs all point to the same shift: polished creative output is getting faster, cheaper, and easier to slot into real workflows. Better image reasoning means fewer prompt gymnastics and more usable first drafts. Stronger short form video generation makes social production more reliable at the speed marketing teams actually need. ElevenLabs is pushing beyond voice tools...

Open weights are getting real, agent teams are getting practical, and generative interfaces are starting to shape ad distribution. This conversation tracks why MiniMax M2.7 matters beyond benchmark hype, especially for teams that want more control over internal workflows without betting everything on one closed vendor. It also breaks down where multi agent coding systems like Codex can actually he...

Open source AI had a very loud week. LTX 2.3 moved closer to real production use with an API for image to video and native portrait output, which matters a lot for social teams and ad workflows. Rakuten AI 3.0 added fuel to the regional model conversation with a large Japanese release that raises useful questions about localization, transparency, and what counts as real innovation. Kitten TTS show...

Google DeepMind is testing Deep Think in Gemini 2.5 Pro, Ollama 0.7 makes OpenClaw easier to run locally, and Typeface is pushing deeper into governed marketing orchestration. The bigger story is not which demo looks smartest. It is which setup actually helps teams ship better work with fewer surprises. This conversation breaks down where stronger reasoning helps, where local open source stacks sa...

NVIDIA’s open Nemotron models are pushing a big shift in AI workflows by making stronger reasoning and agent behavior more affordable. That matters for teams building automations for briefs, reporting, planning, and content operations without burning budget on every step. At the same time, Dreamverse is showing how ultra fast video generation changes creative work from prompt and wait to steer and...

Runway is pushing AI video toward real time creation, with reported sub 100 millisecond response that could turn generation from a waiting game into a live creative tool. SkyReels V4 shows a different shift, where video models start looking more like usable software with benchmarks, pricing, multimodal inputs, and native audio. QuarkAudio adds the open source angle, pointing to a future where audi...

Runway just showed real time video generation with sub 100 millisecond first frames, and that changes how creative teams iterate. Video starts to feel less like rendering and more like steering. SkyReels V4 pushes the conversation further with multimodal video, native audio, and production minded packaging that looks more like software than a research demo. Then Alibaba’s open source QuarkAudio br...

Agents are leveling up, but are they actually ready to own parts of your workflow yet. This episode breaks down MiniMax M2.7, Moonshot Kimi K2.5, and Langflow 1.8 with IBM Agentics through the lens of real marketing and creator use cases. Learn what self improving agents should actually handle, how to treat long context as a bigger desk not a better brain, and why map reduce generate patterns matt...

GPT 5.4 Mini and Nano are shifting from hype to actual workflows, powering routing, content ops, and tightly scoped creative sub agents that package work without hitting publish. Midjourney V8 levels up speed and text-in-image but introduces “confident compliance” risks as almost-right visuals slip past tired reviewers. Tencent’s Covo Audio pushes open voice models toward real-time agents while ra...

Mistral Small 4 open weights, Okara’s AI CMO agent team, and Ollama’s Kimi K2.5 tool calling all point to the same shift. AI is moving from drafting content to actually operating workflows. This episode breaks down when to own the brain with open weights and when to rent it with hosted agents, plus what it really takes to self host without chaos. Learn where agent teams shine, where they fail on t...

Google quietly turned the internet into one multimodal brain with Gemini Embedding 2 and unified embeddings across text, images, video, audio, and PDFs. This episode breaks down how that changes creative search, cross-media intent matching, and ad workflows. It digs into hybrid retrieval, vibe control, and why metadata and risk tiers matter when Google Ads auto-edits your campaigns with new voiceo...

Claude is moving into Excel and PowerPoint, Llama 4 rumors are heating up, and OpenClaw style browser agents are creeping toward your daily workflow. Hunter and Riley dig into how native AI in Office could automate marketing recaps, build decks from live data, and still mislead you with perfectly wrong charts. They unpack why open weights plus long context may finally make open source models pract...

Microsoft’s Phi 4 Reasoning Vision model, Stability’s upgraded text to image, and Helios style real time video are colliding into a new kind of content assembly line. This episode breaks down where multimodal reasoning actually beats human throughput in ad and landing page compliance, where it still fails on nuance, and when to self host open weights versus lean on frontier APIs. Learn how brand t...

Sora References, Soul Cast by Higgsfield, and Claude’s new interactive charts are all pushing AI toward repeatable, production-grade workflows. This episode breaks down how to build a reusable brand universe in Sora without turning everything into the same corporate sitcom, plus how to pressure-test character consistency and spot drift before you scale a campaign. Then it covers Higgsfield’s AI ac...

Nemotron 3 Super, Llama 4 Scout, and Hume TADA are all pushing what open source AI can do for real workflows. This episode digs into when million plus token context actually beats smart retrieval and when it just becomes expensive procrastination. Hear how to test long context models so they do not just summarize nonsense. Learn why open weights do not equal safe ops plus the boring places data st...

GLM-5 goes open weights with a privacy-first spin using Trusted Execution Environments and suddenly sensitive marketing data can power real automation without living in random vendor APIs. MiroThinker pushes verification-centric agents that plan, execute, and then audit themselves to reduce silent multi-step failures in real workflows like landing page updates and research. Fish Audio S2 drops ope...

AI video and audio just picked up some serious new superpowers. Hear how Kling 3.0 makes character consistency real enough for UGC-style ad series without turning every cut into a glitchy horror film. Get the real use cases for HiAR long video and LTX 2.3 open weights plus the hidden costs of running models locally. Learn why Meta’s open source SAM Audio changes podcast cleanup, sonic branding, li...

OpenAI’s latest frontier model drop, nicknamed GPT 5.4 Pro, brings million token context, faster inference, cheaper tool calls, better long context memory, and interruptible generation. The real story is what this means for automated workflows across research, copy, and campaigns. Hunter and Riley break down interruptible agents, safe computer use with permissions and logs, and when to trust agent...

Excel gets a brain and marketers suddenly have a translator between vibes and finance logic. This episode digs into how the new ChatGPT Excel add in could reshape budget planning, incrementality testing, and data governance without turning spreadsheets into haunted houses. Then it unpacks where compact models like Phi 4 Reasoning Vision 15B actually win for creative QA and brand checks. Finally it...

Helios, Higgsfield and Cuttlekit stack into a spicy automation workflow for modern creators. Hunter and Riley unpack how Helios, an open source video model, could replace rough animatics with script to screen drafts while still needing serious guardrails on brand accuracy and compute. They dive into Higgsfield’s built in voice cloning and what real consent, governance and disclosure should look li...

Qwen’s new compact open models, Higgsfield Audio, and Salesforce’s agentic marketing all point to one thing: workflows are getting weirdly powerful. This episode breaks down where tiny open Qwen models actually shine in marketing work, where they fall apart, and how to run them without turning into an infra team. Then it dives into Higgsfield Audio’s script to voice to translation and lip sync pip...