COEY Cast

ChatGPT Atlas has landed and it's not just another tab in your digital chaos. Atlas is an AI-native browser that turns your open tabs into completed tasks. Get the scoop on on-page summarization, Agent Mode that actually interacts with websites for you, and privacy controls that let you share or nuke context at will. See how creators, brand teams, and operators can move from research to first draf...

DeepSeek-OCR just landed and it’s flipping the script for anyone sick of wrestling with giant PDFs, weird tables, and messy document pipelines. This episode unpacks how its pixel-compression-first approach slashes token costs and brings layout fidelity to the masses. From solo creators converting scanned handouts to enterprise teams automating compliance, discover fresh ways to automate, summarize...

Krea Realtime 14B is turning live video into a real-time creative playground for streamers, event teams, and brands. Swipe from neon anime to ink wash on air, driven by the crowd or automation—not after the fact. We unpack its cache-powered stability, instant feedback, and why it’s not quite plug-and-play. Expect workflow tips, ops stacks, competitive context, and brand safety hacks. Plus: why the...

Unlock the world of document automation with PaddleOCR-VL, the lean, mean, structure-reading machine taking over PDF parsing. From invoices to multilingual research, creators and teams can automate their grind—extracting tables, formulas, charts, and more—right where the data lives. This episode breaks down the tech, who it helps, and how it stacks up against closed services like Azure and Google...

Microsoft jumps into image generation with MAI-Image-1, now built right into PowerPoint, Word, Designer, and Bing. This episode breaks down what the new model means for creators, marketers, and anyone running campaigns in Microsoft 365 land. We cover hands-on workflow upgrades, where MAI-Image-1 stands out (and where it doesn’t), and quick-win automations like instant moodboards and storyboards wi...

Google Veo 3.1 is stepping out of demo-land and into reliable, production-ready territory for creators and marketers. The magic? Full control over vertical 9:16 output and precise first and last frame selection, all through the Gemini API. No more wrestling to hit your CTA; now you can pin branded frames exactly where you want. We break down what this means for social teams, automation nerds, ad a...

Short-form video just got a seismic cost drop. This episode unpacks Fal.ai’s new Kandinsky-5 text-to-video public endpoints, where five-second and ten-second videos cost pocket change and fit right into automated workflows. From TikTok hooks to ecommerce motion tiles, meme overlays, and ad variant factories, creators and marketers can now batch video like never before. Learn who should plug in tod...

AI agents are breaking free from chat and getting actual work done. We dig into Amazon Q powering governed automation across your stack, Anthropic Claude Code plugins making team workflows slicker, and Google Gemini 2.5 Computer Use letting bots click, type, and submit on real web interfaces. If you've ever dreamt of skipping browser chores, smarter asset approvals, or finally taming tool sprawl,...

Moondream 3 isn’t just another vision-language demo. This episode dives into how Moondream 3 turns asset chaos into reliable, automated workflows for creators, marketers, and brands. Discover why its precision tagging, open-vocabulary detection, and sneaky-good counting unlock real automation you can trust. Learn how to auto-tag photo libraries, run compliance checks, and extract info from charts—...

OpenAI just dropped a slate of pragmatic features for creators and marketers: Realtime API for sub-second voice experiences, vision fine-tuning for on-brand images and videos, prompt caching for faster, cheaper outputs, and distillation for nimble, customizable mini-models. From smooth product page concierges to auto QA for ads, this is about practical automation you can actually wire up now. Less...

Granite 4.0 from IBM is purpose-built for work that matters. Hybrid-first design, lower GPU bills, and real enterprise controls make it a standout for teams buried in docs, briefs, and policies. Learn how its new sequence modeling powers long-form extraction, drafting, and workflow-ready batch jobs. From agency content factories to regulated industries, discover how Granite 4.0 lets you automate m...

Tencent’s HunyuanImage 3.0 lands with open weights and inference code ready for creative operators—not just cloud providers. We dig into how unified text and image streams up your prompt game, boost scene coherence, and make enterprise-level automation a reality. Learn why campaign workhorses like agencies, studios, and brands might ditch pay-per-render for predictable, process-friendly setups. Di...

This episode is a deep dive into Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5, focusing on its strengths as a long-running, tool-savvy AI agent for creators, marketers, and enterprise teams. We break down how Sonnet 4.5 automates everything from spreadsheet chores and bug fixes to content calendars and podcast workflows, while still leaving humans in control for publishing and approvals. Learn how distribution t...

In this episode, Hunter and Riley take a hands-on dive into DeepSeek’s brand new AI model that claims to cut usage costs in half. They break down the technical magic—like smarter routing and sparse attention—that makes these savings possible and discuss the practical impact for creators, agencies, and content teams. The hosts outline when and where this matters most, how to benchmark it in your wo...

In this episode, Hunter and Riley demo and dissect Sora 2, OpenAI’s new standalone text-to-video app for creating swipable, ten-second vertical clips. They explore how Sora 2’s unified audio/visual generation streamlines workflow for creators, marketers, and founders, making it perfect for testing hooks, brand teasers, and product loops. The hosts break down what’s new, who benefits, where enterpr...

Dive into Meta’s newest launch: Vibes, an AI-powered short video creation and remix feed built straight into the Meta AI app and web. We break down how Vibes collapses the workflow from idea to publish, making it easy to generate, remix, and distribute videos across Meta’s social channels. Learn who it’s for, how it compares to other platforms like TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and standalone AI editors...

Today’s Coey Cast dives deep into Alibaba’s Wan 2.5-Preview, the all-in-one model that generates videos with audio perfectly synced—no glue code, no post-sync headaches. Hosts Hunter and Riley put it through its paces, exploring how this model handles text, image, video, and audio in a single pass. They break down the workflow for creators, marketers, and ops teams, show practical automations with...

This episode of COEY Cast explores the release of Kling 2.5 Turbo, the newest AI video generation model making waves for its major reliability upgrade. Hunter and Riley explain how smoother motion, better frame-to-frame coherence, and improved prompt matching make this version a step change for creators and teams. They detail how the model reduces “AI-wobbly” moments, accelerates production, and d...

This episode puts Alibaba’s new Qwen3-Omni model under the microscope. We break down what makes it special: sub-second talkback, open weights, and the power to process and generate text, images, audio, and video—all in real time. Learn what the 'thinker–talker' architecture actually does, why self-hosting matters for control, and how Qwen3-Omni simplifies the whole stack for creators, brands, and...

Get a backstage pass to Decart’s latest release: Lucy Edit Dev, the open-weight, text-guided video editor you can actually download and run locally. Riley and Hunter break down how prompt-based video edits preserve your camera moves while swapping outfits, backgrounds, or brands—with no reshoots. We dig into real-world uses for creators, brands, and marketers, from programmatic wardrobe changes to...

Dive into Luma’s Ray3, now turbocharging Adobe Firefly with ten-second AI video generation, native HDR in ACES EXR, and scene-level planning. We break down what 'reasoning' for video means and why direct handoff into Creative Cloud is such a big deal for creators and marketers. From quick Draft Mode explorations to full quality cinematic moments, Ray3’s integration offers workflow magic: brand-saf...

Dive into Hunyuan 3D 3.0 by Tencent, the latest leap in text or image-to-3D generation. Hosts Hunter and Riley dissect its features, including boosted accuracy, denser geometry, sharper edges, and the standout ability to reconstruct hidden parts of objects. Learn how new automation options with API access can overhaul your workflow for e-commerce, games, social content, and more. The episode explo...

This episode crash-tests Zoom AI Companion 3.0, just announced at Zoomtopia. We dig into photorealistic avatars that mirror your every move, cross-platform automatic meeting notes that work in Zoom, Teams, and Google Meet, and agent-style scheduling that might finally end meeting exhaustion. We break down who benefits most—from solo creators who want flawless presence to marketing managers jugglin...

This episode dives into Meta’s newly launched AI Studio, a no-code platform for spinning up custom AI characters directly in Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and web. Learn how creators and brands can deploy persona-driven assistants in hours, gather audience insights, and streamline DM engagement—without developers. The hosts cover real-world use cases for solo creators, D2C brands, agencies, and...

This episode dives into Ollama’s latest update: true native support for Apple Silicon, Linux ARM, and Windows on ARM—plus automatic GPU acceleration. Hunter and Riley break down what this means for creators, marketers, and teams who want fast, private, and scalable local AI without the cloud headaches. Discover how to automate copywriting, captions, content moderation, product Q&A, and more with l...