Best Gavin Purcell Podcasts (2025)

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OpenAI Is Spending A Fortune To Get To AGI. Will They Make It? 50:33

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OpenAI just did a $300B deal with Oracle to insure that they have the compute to get to the next stage of AI. The future of AI is EXPENSIVE. Sam Altman is making deals all over the place, trying to set OpenAI up for the future. But there's a LOT of competition now, including from companies like Replit & their new Agent 3 which can work for hours at…

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AI Helps Salesforce Cut 4000 Jobs. Will It Make New Ones? 44:47

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AI NEWS: Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff says AI helped cut 4000 jobs from their workforce. Is this the start of a bigger trend? FYI, Optimus 3 isn’t *really* ready to take those jobs yet. Google’s NanoBanana continues to amaze us and we show off some really fun new ways to use it. Google *also* has a new vibecoding platform, a cool AI video real-time …

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Google’s Nano Banana Brings Next Gen AI To The Mainstream 53:33

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Google’s Nano Banana is the best AI image editor we’ve ever seen & it bodes well for the future of Gemini going forward. But even better, it’s actually useful in everyday life. In other AI News, OpenAI’s new Realtime API improves its voice AI systems. It’s also taking people back from Meta who is also doing a deal with Midjourney. YES, it’s the CIR…

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Move Over OpenAI… Google Looks Ready To Take The AI Lead 53:56

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AI NEWS: Google’s been moving insanely fast & shipping as OpenAI & Sam Altman have been working out what went wrong with the GPT-5 launch. Will we have a new AI leader? Google’s Made By Google event introduced a new natural language photo editing software (that could be powered by Nano Banana - their secret unreleased model) and a live AI translato…

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OpenAI’s GPT-5 Stumbles On The Rocky Road To AGI 44:52

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SECRET PROJECT IN DISCORD: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Is this the AI slow down? OpenAI’s GPT-5’s first week was kind of rough but Sam Atlman is working on it. GPT-4o is back for those who missed it but AI might not get to the Singularity as fast as people think. GPT-5 *did* crush Pokemon & a new version got a gold medal in the International Prog…

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OpenAI's GPT-5 Is Here. It's Very Good AI But Not AGI 53:25

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OpenAI’s GPT-5 is out & it’s the best AI model! For now. Overall, the benchmarks are good-not-great but the vibes are off-the-charts. We dive into the DEEP end. Sam Altman brought the whole team out for a long demo of GPT-5. It’s great at coding! It’s better at writing! It has new AI personalities! It will not hallucinate nearly as much! Which is m…

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OpenAI’s GPT-5 Leaks Show Us The Future (Of Next Week??) 40:15

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OpenAI’s GPT-5 is coming soon and it is…good?. Mystery models have been testing on various platforms that may show us the future of OpenAI’s newest AI & the future of the space. Sam Altman’s company has been ramping up the hype machine entering next week when most expect GPT-5’s release (as well as a new possible Google model). Meanwhile, Mark Zuck…

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OpenAI Teases GPT-5 as America Goes Full 'AI Action' Mode 1:04:05

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OpenAI’s Sam Altman dribbles out GPT-5 teases as the White House’s AI Action plan lays out exactly how all-in America is on the future of AI. Plus, SO MUCH AI NEWS. GPT-5 is (we hope?) around the corner and we’re getting small snippets like the mysterious new model that’s incredible at coding & the AI model that won gold at the International Math O…

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OpenAI's New ChatGPT Agent Might've Just Stolen Your Job 51:06

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ChatGPT Agent is OpenAI’s new combo of Deep Research and its Operator web-browser agents into one near-human level worker. Is your job on the chopping block? Big week in AI News: Sam Altman and the OpenAI team have been cooking agents for a bit but this new one feels like the next big wave of AI in 2025. Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg grabs a few more …

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Grok 4 is Nearing AGI But... Can Elon Get Out Of The Way? 1:00:58

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Grok 4 from xAI just aced “Humanity’s Last Exam” benchmarks while Grok 3 had a catastrophic public meltdown. What does this mean for the future of AI and Elon Musk’s credibility? And, in other AI news, OpenAI’s GPT-5 is rumored to land next week along with a new open-source reasoning model, Google’s DeepMind launches AI-designed drugs into human tr…

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Meta's Poaches OpenAI Brains, Google's AI Gaming Engine & More AI HUGE News 56:27

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OpenAI, Meta & Google are fighting over who gets to control the future of superintelligence but what happens when Zuck robs Sam Altman blind? And is Apple about to onboard Anthropic? In the big AI news this week, Meta hires over 10 top OpenAI engineers (for a rumored potential $300 million in compensation), Apple considers replacing its entire AI s…

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Big AI Vs Humans: OpenAI’s Office, Google's Free AI Agent and more AI News 55:27

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OpenAI, Google & Anthropic are all eating different parts of the business & creative worlds but where does that leave us? For only 25 cents, you too can sponsor a human in a world of AGI. In the big news this week, OpenAI’s takes on Microsoft Office, Google’s cutting the cost of AI coding with their new Google CLI (Command Line Interface) and dropp…

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OpenAI's GPT-5 Hype Train, Midjourney Video is Great & More HUGE AI News 51:33

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OpenAI’s Sam Altman is doing a full blown AI media tour and taking no prisoners. GPT-5! Humanoid robotics! Smack talk! The next generation of AI is…maybe almost here? We unpack Altman’s brand-new in-house podcast (and his brother’s), confirm the “likely-this-summer” GPT-5 timeline and reveal why Meta is dangling $100 million signing bonuses at Open…

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OpenAI Prepares For Artificial Super Intelligence, Apple's Major AI Fail & New Insane 1X Robots 45:51

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OpenAI’s Sam Altman drops o3-Pro & sees “The Gentle Singularity”, Ilya Sutskever prepares for super intelligence & Mark Zuckerberg is spending MEGA bucks on AI talent. WHAT GIVES? All of the major AI companies are not only preparing for AGI but for true “super intelligence” which is on the way, at least according to *them*. What does that mean for …

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GPT-5 Coming Soon, New ChatGPT For Business & Huge AI Video Updates 52:41

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OpenAI is inching towards GPT-5 this July and Sam Altman has been out there talking up a good game. How good will it be? And what will the future be? WE DIVE IN. Between Google & Anthropic, the state-of-the-art AI models are pushing OpenAI hard & ChatGPT for Business updates are just the start of HOT AI SUMMER LFG (Sam’s words, not ours). Plus, Flu…

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The AI Job Apocalypse, Google's VEO 3 Updates, and OpenAI's Advanced Voice Can Now Sing 56:57

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Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei just warned HALF of white-collar jobs could vanish in the next 1–5 years. Thankfully VEO 3 is here for your entertainment needs. While we’re still here. We break down Dario Amodei’s 50% job-loss prediction and what you can do today to stay indispensable. Then: how Claude Opus kept blackmailing its own user, why Google’s…

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Google's VEO 3 Is Next Gen AI Video, Gemini Crushes at Google I/O & OpenAI's Big Bet on Jony Ive 56:15

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VEO 3, Gemini Diffusion, Android AR Glasses & so much more… Google went HAM on the AI space this week at Google I/O. Plus, Sam Altman spends 6.5B on AI wearables & Jony Ive. After last year’s semi-lackluster I/O event, this year Google rolled out Sergei Brin & Demis Hassabis and a whole lot of new product. We go deep on all of it but especially VEO…

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OpenAI's Roadmap to AGI, Google's AlphaEvolve Codes Itself & So Many AI Babies 48:59

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OpenAI’s Sam Atlman discussed the next three years of AI advancements while Google’s brand new AlphaEvolve model codes new algorithms on its own. And good lord, the babies. We also dig into OpenAI HealthBench out-diagnosing real doctors, Anthropic’s rumored reasoning-hybrid Opus & Sonnet updates, and Tesla’s newly refreshed sim-to-real dancing Opti…

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OpenAI Goes Global, AI Threat Meetings & Gemini’s Code Crusher 53:29

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OpenAI just pitched “OpenAI for Countries,” offering democracies a turnkey AI infrastructure while some of the world’s richest quietly stockpile bunkers and provisions. We’ll dig into billionaire Paul Tudor Jones’s revelations about AI as an imminent security threat, and why top insiders are buying land and livestock to ride out the next catastroph…

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Craig Mod – What Japan Taught Him About Self-Worth and Slowing Down 2:08:40

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Watch episode on YoutubeIn this episode, Kevin sits down with writer, photographer, and technologist Craig Mod for a wide-ranging conversation on the value of slowness in a fast-moving world. From walking solo across Japan to rethinking the economics of independent publishing, Craig shares his philosophy of presence, deep attention, and building cr…

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Meta's Weird New AI Social Network, OpenAI Rolls Back ChatGPT For Sucking Up & More Crazy AI News 57:03

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Meta just launched an AI-powered social network and it’s way weirder than we expected. From voice assistants with emotional baggage to remixable AI selfies, we test Meta’s new AI app and talk about what it really means for the future of AI interfaces. VISIT OUR SPONSOR: https://molku.ai/ We also break down OpenAI’s GlazeGate, the update that made C…

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DeepMind Says We're Not Ready For AGI, Academy Awards Say AI Video is Ok, and AI Voice Models Get Weird 49:20

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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 w…

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OpenAI's New o3 & o4-mini Are Better, Cheaper & Faster, New AI Video Models & More AI News 52:21

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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 Generati…

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Google's Updated Gemini 2.5 Pro May Be Winning the AI Race, OpenAI Delays GPT-5 & More AI News 1:02:48

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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…

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OpenAI's Servers Meltdown & Raises $40 Billion Dollars, Runway's Amazing New Gen-4 AI Video & More AI News 52:46

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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 Runw…

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OpenAI's New 4o Image Gen Dominates The Internet, Google Gemini 2.5 & More AI News 1:02:41

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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…

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NVIDIA's Huge AI & Robot Event, Google's NextGen Image Model, AI Video Tools & More Insane AI News 1:04:53

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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 …

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Anthropic CEO Says AI Will Write All Code, China's Manus AI, New OpenAI Models & More AI News 1:06:21

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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 wi…

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OpenAI's $20,000 AI Agent, Insane Sesame AI Audio, GPT-4.5 Thoughts & More AI News 58:21

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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 effe…

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Amazon's New Alexa AI, OpenAI's GPT 4.5, Claude Sonnet's Coding Power & More AI News 1:08:45

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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 …

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xAI's Grok 3 Just Changed The AI Race, Mircosoft's New AI Gaming Model, Spicy ChatGPT And More AI News 59:07

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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 o…

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Elon Vs OpenAI, GPT-5 Is Confirmed, New AI Video Models & More AI News 57:10

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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 …

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Unlocking AI's Potential: Reid Hoffman Discusses 'Superagency' 1:07:57

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Whether you're curious about future-proofing your career, understanding AI's global impact, or just want to hear from one of tech's most insightful leaders, this episode is packed with actionable insights. Think of AI today like computers in the '90s - those who embrace it early will have an incredible advantage. Join us as we explore what makes th…

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OpenAI's Deep Research Gets Closer To AGI, Replit's No-Code AI App, NVIDIA's New Robots & More AI News 58:03

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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 Ro…

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Deepseek R1 Chaos Updates, OpenAI Speeds Up & More AI News 55:03

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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. Me…

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OpenAI's $500B Stargate Project, Cutting Edge Chinese AI Models & More AI News 56:56

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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)…

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OpenAI Plans Super Intelligence, NVIDIA's Tiny Image Model & Reddit Launches GPT & More AI News 52:17

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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…

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AGI in 2025? Plus, OpenAI's Agents, NVIDIA's AI World Model & More AI News 43:15

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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 mig…

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AI Predictions for 2025, Thoughts on OpenAI's o3 & The Year in Review 30:24

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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 episo…

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Google Wins AI Video, ChatGPT Gets a 1-800 Number & More Massive AI News 44:15

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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 Whis…

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ChatGPT For iPhone is Here, OpenAI's Sora Released, Google Gemini 2.0 and more AI News 51:56

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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 talk…

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OpenAI's 12 Days of AI Surpirse, Breakthrough AI World Models & More AI News 52:16

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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 hea…

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Three Biggest AI Trends for 2025 & We Answer Your AI Questions 42:00

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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) epi…

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New AI Studios in Hollywood, DeepSeek's AI Reasoning Model, Perplexity Disrupts Shopping & More AI News 52:09

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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 voic…

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The Path to Awakening: Meditation, Zen, and Becoming a Person of No Rank (#73) 1:31:10

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Prefer YouTube? — watch the episode here Exploring the intersection of ancient wisdom and modern life, Kevin Rose sits down with celebrated Zen teacher Henry Shukman to explore the depths of meditation practice, the nature of awakening, and the universal human capacity for transformation. From practical meditation advice to fascinating Zen stories …

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OpenAI & Google Struggle on Model Training, Suno's New AI Music Model & More AI News 46:52

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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 *gre…

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Sam Altman's AI Optimism, New Presidential AI Policy & Defense, Endless AI Video Games & More AI News 40:26

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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 generat…

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OpenAI Says AGI Not Far Off, Apple Intelligence is Just OK, Meta AI Search & More AI News 49:57

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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 A…

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Beyond Ozempic: The Probiotic That Finally Stops Chocolate (& Food) Binges. Join Our Science Trial. (#72) 32:20

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Friends, I recently sat down with Dr. Colleen Cutcliffe, CEO of Pendulum Therapeutics, for a discussion about probiotics, metabolism, and a potential natural alternative to GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic. Here's why I'm excited to share this with you... The Backstory A month ago, I ran into a friend who had slimmed down and was looking fit. These days, I…

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Anthropic's New AI Agent, OpenAI Plays Catch-up, Runway's Act-One & More AI News 50:12

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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 un…