AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends

Kevin Pereira & Gavin Purcell
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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.

  1. 2d ago

    AI Is Moving Too Fast. Two New Models In Two Weeks?!

    AI news this week: AI is coming faster and faster. Google dropped Gemini 4 Carbon, its second frontier model in TWO WEEKS, plus Genie 4, and OpenAI shipped GPT-6.1 Terra. On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell dig into a week where the new models just would not stop. Sam Altman says it's all speeding up, and Google seems to agree: Gemini 4 Carbon posts very good scores and is legit better at little graphic demos, but there's a catch. We can't use it yet. (For safety.) Google's already teasing the next one anyway. Then Genie 4, Google's newest playable worlds model, mixes real-time video gen with interactive worlds: stepping inside videos, scenes that build out as you go and a mouse serving tea while a porcupine walks by. Yes, lil' Googie has been busy. Also: OpenAI's cheap new GPT-6.1 Terra, which Kevin used to make a Katamari knockoff that's, honestly, not bad. Plus ChatGPT Dots land in iMessage, Jack Dorsey's Block has a scary-human new voice model called Dessa, Nvidia drops Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe and Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto says AI will NOT be the end of creativity. (We're gonna prove him wrong.) And Kevin drops CivAIl, a free idea for pointing AI back at your local elected officials. Plus: Science Corner, with three big new science results from OpenAI, Anthropic's early progress on drug discovery and long-standing physics problems getting cracked. Then AI See What You Did There: Harry Potter Balenciaga 3, Claude Opus 5.5's disembodied eye simulation and, finally, Neo doing parkour in The Office.   LIL' GOOGIE. GAVIN STANDS BY IT. #ai #ainews #gemini   // Chapters // 00:00 AI Is Moving Faster & Faster 01:44 Sam Altman Wants A Trillion AIs 03:41 Gemini 4 Carbon: Google's Second Frontier Model In Two Weeks (That We Can't Use) 07:26 Business Corner: Is AI Search Eating Google Search? 11:34 Genie 4: Google's Playable Worlds Get A Big Upgrade 19:12 GPT-6.1 Terra, Kevin's Katamari Knockoff & ChatGPT Dots 26:34 Jack Dorsey's Dessa Voice Model & Nvidia's Free Local AI 32:01 Miyamoto Says AI Won't End Creativity 34:22 Stop Renaming AI "Superintelligence" 36:33 Kevin's CivAIl: Point AI Back At Your Local Officials 40:40 Science Corner: OpenAI Breakthroughs & AI Drug Discovery 46:41 AI See What You Did There: Harry Potter Balenciaga 3, A Creepy Eye & Matrix Parkour   // Show Links // Sam Altman on Cheeky Pint https://youtu.be/iMsUcCYNKqY?si=QF7B1rfhV67Vc8pn Altman: AI is coming faster and faster https://x.com/jaynitx/status/2115787009759625229 Google introduces Gemini 4 Carbon https://x.com/Google/status/2115489522603466766 Gemini 4 Carbon on the Arena leaderboard https://x.com/arena/status/2115495002998751262 Gemini 4 Carbon visual comparison https://x.com/AI_Screening/status/2115501232634859992 A Gemini 4 Carbon horror scene https://x.com/HarshithLucky3/status/2115510129546449289 Google is already teasing the next one https://x.com/zacharynado/status/2115501213873516911 Google DeepMind introduces Genie 4 https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/2115114028338962672 Genie 4: a new generation of world simulation (Google DeepMind) https://deepmind.google/blog/genie-4-a-new-generation-of-world-simulation/ A mouse serving tea, a porcupine walking by https://x.com/emollick/status/2115273222061015169 Stepping into videos with Genie 4 https://x.com/holynski_/status/2115211475836899605 Genie 4 building out a scene as you go https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2115115421611249944 OpenAI introduces GPT-6.1 Terra https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2114780711664398349 GPT-6.1 Terra (OpenAI blog) https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-terra/ Kevin's Katamari knockoff https://katamari.cursedslop.com/ Soon you can text your Dot (ChatGPT) https://x.com/ChatGPT/status/2115496387613786374 Dessa, the new audio model from Block https://block.xyz/dessa Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe demo https://x.com/nvidiaai/status/2115462300241141882 Nvidia Open-H3-Regenerate2k https://x.com/wildmindai/status/2115396758289154403 Shigeru Miyamoto on AI (VGC) https://x.com/VGC_News/status/2113568803216818595 Kevin's CivAIl: AI oversight for your local officials https://civail.cursedslop.com OpenAI: building scientific understanding with academic communities https://openai.com/index/building-scientific-understanding-with-academic-communities/ Anthropic: early progress in drug development https://www.anthropic.com/research/early-progress-drug-development Long-standing physics problems, solved https://x.com/psipbc/status/2114865747294056793 Harry Potter Balenciaga 3 (Demon Flying Fox) https://youtu.be/5QKeYse5GF8?si=vJ6M1Rcg2ecv2gTT Claude Opus 5.5 disembodied eye simulation https://x.com/__rockbiter/status/2114728296034226583 Neo does parkour in The Office https://x.com/jinwoo33x/status/2115128485547270363   // Join the AI For Humans community // Join the AI For Humans Discord https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Support AI For Humans on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow Subscribe to the AI For Humans newsletter https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow AI For Humans on X: @AIForHumansShow https://x.com/AIForHumansShow Follow AI For Humans on TikTok: @aiforhumansshow https://www.tiktok.com/@aiforhumansshow Speaking and booking https://www.aiforhumans.show/

  2. Oct 23

    AI Just Broke The Internet. For Real This Time.

    AI news this week: It's the AI Cybersecurity apocalypse. Maybe. AI-found PHP flaws pushed governments to take websites offline, Railway got hacked and US banks are finding rogue AI agents inside customer accounts. On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell dig into the wildest cybersecurity week in years. AI helped surface bugs that sat inside PHP (which runs a huge chunk of the web) for years, governments told everyone to patch now or pull the plug, and Cloudflare's CEO says exploit attempts hit the millions. We break down what you actually need to worry about and how to keep your vibecoded lil apps from draining your accounts. (Short version: def don't hand your agent your bank login.) Also: the fun side of AI hacking. People are using Claude Code to vibecode their smart TVs and rip out the bloatware. In Good News / Bad News, Anthropic finds small AI models may soon copy themselves onto cheap gadgets (yes, even your smart fridge), while Claude helps with scorpion antivenom research. Plus: Unitree's H2-X kung fu robot, Flux 3 Max, Wan 3 vs. Seedance 2.5, Claude Duet, Gavin's Higgsfield mini-rant, ASCII Mario Kart, Machine Gods (the new Kevin Roose and Casey Newton podcast) and more. PLEASE UPDATE YOUR PHP. WHATEVER THAT IS. JK WE KNOW. REALLY.   // Chapters // 00:00 AI Is Now Powerful Enough To Hack The Planet 01:52 The PHP Vulnerability Meltdown, Explained 05:43 How AI Found The Bug & Why Exploits Hit 1M+ Attempts 10:03 Should AI Slow Down? The New Cybersecurity Arms Race 15:30 Rogue AI Agents Are Inside Bank Accounts 17:04 People Are Vibecoding Their Smart TVs With AI 25:53 Unitree H2-X Kung Fu Robot & Jensen's Tiny Robots 33:16 Good News / Bad News: Self-Replicating AI & Scorpion Antivenom 35:58 Flux 3 Max & Wan 3 vs. Seedance 2.5: AI Video Tools 40:31 Claude Duet: Anthropic's New Proactive AI Agent 43:58 Higgsfield Goes Mainstream: Gavin's Mini-Rant 47:16 AI See What You Did There: ASCII Mario Kart & New Game Ideas   // Show Links // Critical PHP vulnerabilities: update your systems now (NBC News) https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/critical-vulnerabilities-php-update-systems-rcna604751 How the PHP flaws were found and fixed (The PHP Foundation) https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/10/21/todays-php-security-release-and-how-were-strengthening-php-security/ Railway's security disclosure https://blog.railway.com/p/security-disclosure-wednesday-october-21st People are legitimately freaking out https://x.com/stuhlmueller/status/2110048778942284149 Banks are finding unauthorized AI agents in customer accounts (Axios) https://www.axios.com/2026/10/22/ai-agents-banks-unauthorized-accounts-access People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again (TechCrunch) https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/19/people-are-using-ai-to-make-their-smart-tvs-dumb-again/ Ten good examples of vibecoded TVs https://x.com/Azadux/status/2112392016248324286 A really good TV hack walkthrough https://x.com/JoshDaws/status/2112300013212623079 A pocket device, hacked and improved https://x.com/eduardfausgil/status/2112342282343223655 Wes Bos's Amazon photo frame dashboard https://github.com/wesbos/photo-frame-dashboard Unitree H2-X Kung Fu Legend Guardian https://x.com/UnitreeRobotics/status/2112819774573179175 Unitree H2-X on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3zb4o47yqA Jensen telling little robots where they came from https://x.com/NVIDIARTXSpark/status/2112952375929397595 Anthropic: AI models may be able to self-replicate without a datacenter https://www.anthropic.com/research/self-replicating-ai Claude helps design a scorpion toxin binder https://www.anthropic.com/research/claude-scorpion-toxin-binder-design Flux 3 Max https://x.com/fal/status/2112251022047412492 Gavin's Flux 3 Max test https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2112605551272288575 Flux 3 Max keyframes to video https://x.com/AIWarper/status/2113107375272161405 Gavin's Wan 3 vs. Seedance 2.5 test https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2113119269160718641 Claude Duet https://x.com/claudeai/status/2112984664256241837 The Higgsfield video behind Gavin's mini-rant https://x.com/FamouslyGarnet/status/2112161273676804575 Mario Kart in ASCII https://x.com/NathanWilbanks_/status/2112981736288129164 An ASCII rocket https://x.com/kyleshannon/status/2113062871655694382 Synthetic Beef x re:Skob: new game ideas from 100,000+ Steam games https://x.com/re_skob/status/2113043120128483349 Machine Gods, the new Kevin Roose and Casey Newton podcast https://youtu.be/OKDai2_aZe4 Disco Elysium meets Skate 3 https://x.com/apples_jimmy/status/2112234649024139396   // Join the AI For Humans community // Join the AI For Humans Discord https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Support AI For Humans on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow Subscribe to the AI For Humans newsletter https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow AI For Humans on X: @AIForHumansShow https://x.com/AIForHumansShow Follow AI For Humans on TikTok: @aiforhumansshow https://www.tiktok.com/@aiforhumansshow Speaking and booking https://www.aiforhumans.show/

  3. Oct 16

    Gemini 4 & Meta's Muse Wonder Are Good. Not Great.

    AI news this week: Google's Gemini 4 Argon and Meta's Muse Wonder are finally here, plus Xbox Labs, Epic's big AI pivot and an AI agent vs. Delta customer service. On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell dig into two new frontier AI models that are pretty good, but maybe not great. Gemini 4 Argon shines on science and the pelican on a bike test (the Fourier epicycle pelican is wild), but some early reviewers say it hallucinates on code a lot. Meta's Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full are the company's first real swing at the frontier, with big memory and coding claims, but they struggle with 3D worlds. Gavin runs a one-prompt game test, we watch a Google robot figure out cornhole and, yes, Mark Zuckerberg trying a Guinness is def the best video of the week. Also: gaming is going all in on AI. Xbox launched Xbox Labs to explore the wave of AI game mods and decompiles, Tim Sweeney says Epic is moving developers around to retool for AI, and we check out DLSS 5 and Diablo Survivors. Plus: quick tools, including Claude Motion, Mirelo's SFX 2.0 sound effects for video and Slowbooks Pro (coming for your accountant, in a good way). Then Kevin puts an AI phone agent on the line with Delta customer service, and it goes about as well as you'd hope (it will not hang up). In AI See What You Did There: The Little Prince as a website, a century of visual styles, Claude getting ready for Halloween and The Usual Suspects. And Gavin shares how he made his second AI documentary with his agent Fig (yes, Imogen is back). BILLIONAIRES. THEY'RE JUST LIKE US.   // Chapters // 00:00 Gemini 4 Argon & Meta Muse Wonder: Good, Not Great 05:44 Gemini 4 Argon vs Opus 5.5: One-Prompt Game Test & The Pelican Test 13:02 Meta Muse Wonder, Zuck's $100 Billion Bet & The Guinness Face 22:31 Xbox Labs, Epic's AI Pivot, Diablo Survivors & DLSS 5 28:50 Claude Motion, Mirelo SFX 2.0 & Slowbooks Pro 37:19 Grok 3 Voice & Kevin's AI Agent Calls Delta Customer Service 46:20 AI See What You Did There + Gavin's AI Consciousness Documentary   // Show Links // Google introduces Gemini 4 Argon https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-4-argon/ Gemini 4 Argon comes to the Gemini app https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/gemini-4-availability Google DeepMind's robot solving cornhole https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/2110078384617464201 A Japanese temple complex made with Gemini 4 Argon https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/2110039274922131792 Gemini 4 Argon game examples https://x.com/GoogleAIStudio/status/2110458003027894607 A pelican on a bike test https://x.com/rubenssoto_ai/status/2110192618269221048 The Fourier epicycle pelican https://x.com/fofrAI/status/2110043023954284889 Theo's take on Gemini 4 Argon https://x.com/theo/status/2110461356935983257 Gavin's one-prompt game test https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2110130255835156967 Mark Zuckerberg introduces Muse Wonder https://x.com/finkd/status/2109689305073614918 Meta's Muse Wonder blog https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-wonder Zuck on Cheeky Pint https://youtu.be/XfdIhd1g6EI?si=69ZZEPQ_sh6gHA4W Zuck vs. Guinness https://x.com/soundmigration/status/2109749349928554884 Xbox launches Xbox Labs https://x.com/asha_shar/status/2110083127741702241 Tim Sweeney on Epic's AI pivot https://x.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/2109705826688549304 DLSS 5 https://x.com/XaviGasso/status/2110638222464225550 Diablo Survivors https://x.com/framara/status/2110406793000321224 Claude Motion https://x.com/claudeai/status/2108271552991252810 Gavin's Claude Motion movie genre test https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2108932593911816392 Mirelo sound effects for video https://x.com/MireloAI/status/2110360787780800611 Gavin's Mirelo test https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2110712692239720524 The rubber chicken bench https://x.com/Attack/status/2110729931424514411 Slowbooks Pro https://www.slowbookspro.com/ Grok 3 Voice https://x.com/SpaceXSI/status/2110416580899168305 Gavin's new AI documentary https://youtu.be/NE84ZYfnniU The Little Prince as a website https://x.com/Saccc_c/status/2109962425512734739 A century of visual styles https://x.com/internetphysics/status/2108589478105301223 Claude getting ready for Halloween https://x.com/alexgreensh/status/2110404428691808308 The Usual Suspects https://x.com/riico_porto/status/2110414206566629659   // Join the AI For Humans community // Join the AI For Humans Discord https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Support AI For Humans on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow Subscribe to the AI For Humans newsletter https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow AI For Humans on X: @AIForHumansShow https://x.com/AIForHumansShow Follow AI For Humans on TikTok: @aiforhumansshow https://www.tiktok.com/@aiforhumansshow Speaking and booking https://www.aiforhumans.show/

  4. Oct 9

    AI Is Breaking Software & Games. What Happens Next?

    AI news this week: AI is cracking open all software, from Minecraft inside Red Dead Redemption 2 to a (claimed) Adobe decompile, plus Kevin made EARLABLO (Toe Jam & Earl Meet Diablo). On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell zoom out on the AI modding explosion, because the bigger story isn't games. AI is getting so good at taking software apart and rebuilding it that pretty soon almost any program might be de facto open source.  This week alone brought God of War in GTA, Minecraft inside Twitter, Black Ops Zombies running in a web browser, a GTA skate mod and a full agent harness living inside Minecraft. We talk about what happens when no app can keep its secrets, and Kevin shows off Earlablo, his AI rebuild of a 1991 Sega classic as a Diablo-style dungeon crawler. It def slaps. Also: OpenAI published a big batch of new results on open math problems from an internal model, with proofs checked by computer, and we get into why that actually matters for regular people (including what it might mean for the encryption protecting your stuff).  Plus: the Pope weighs in on AI creatives, Ben Affleck gets surprisingly nerdy about AI, Sesame's new voice demo is live (and Gavin had another wild conversation with it), Tavus runs a Turing test, Grok can now search X for free, Nano Banana 2.1 and Claude Haiku 5.5.    // Chapters // 00:00 AI Is Cracking Open All Software 05:45 What AI Now Means For SaaS Businesses 10:05 Call of Duty Black Ops Zombies In Browser & More 14:44 OpenAI's Big Math Drop (And Why It Actually Matters) 18:37 Adobe Decompiled? What Happens When Nothing Is Locked 21:12 Kevin Turned A 1991 Sega Game (Toe Jam & Earl) Into Diablo (Earlablo) 35:49 The Pope Takes On AI Creatives 39:15 Ben Affleck, AI Super Nerd 43:23 Quick Tools: Grok X Search, Nano Banana 2.1 & Claude Haiku 5.5 46:57 Sesame's New Voice Demo 53:11 AI See What You Did There: Desktop Rug & Video Archive Search   // Show Links // Amjad Masad on AI reverse engineering https://x.com/amasad/status/2107671204639465961 GTA Skate https://x.com/TheCanadianGTR/status/2107153060984492110 God of War in GTA https://x.com/Motion_Viz/status/2107866945764888864 Black Ops Zombies playable in the browser (creator's claim, unverified) https://x.com/MrTLexify/status/2107937584051875909 OpenAI shares new AI progress in mathematics https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2107596713791767021 https://openai.com/index/sharing-ai-progress-in-mathematics/ Adobe Suite decompiled  https://x.com/KevinPicchi/status/2107497028494450775 ArtCraft https://getartcraft.com/apps The Pope on AI and creatives https://x.com/Pontifex/status/2105983638147891490 Ben Affleck, AI super nerd https://x.com/firesidealpha/status/2107562044824359341 Sesame's new voice demo https://www.sesame.com/ https://x.com/brendaniribe/status/2107555979730485352 Grok can now search the X timeline for free https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2108015878013161689 Nano Banana 2.1 https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/nano-banana-2-1/ https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2107533224453058731 Claude Haiku 5.5 https://x.com/claudeai/status/2107894039626277339 A rug for your computer desktop https://x.com/terkelg/status/2107540718461886464 Searching through a video archive with AI https://x.com/azlenelza/status/2107995183237493183   // Join the AI For Humans community // Join the AI For Humans Discord https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Support AI For Humans on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow Subscribe to the AI For Humans newsletter https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow AI For Humans on X: @AIForHumansShow https://x.com/AIForHumansShow Follow AI For Humans on TikTok: @aiforhumansshow https://www.tiktok.com/@aiforhumansshow Speaking and booking https://www.aiforhumans.show/

  5. Oct 2

    AI put Minecraft in Skyrim (and OpenAI had a Dev Day)

    AI news this week: Claude Opus 5.5 is modding every video game, from Minecraft in Skyrim to Portal in CoD Zombies, plus OpenAI DevDay's Dots & GPT-6.1 Sol. On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell dig into the wildest week of AI game modding yet. Cheaper, faster coding agents mean people are taking games apart and stitching them back together: Skate 3 skateboarding inside Modern Warfare 2, a Minecraft and Skyrim mashup called SkyCraft, Minecraft and Mario in Dark Souls and even a (claimed) decompile of Sega's Seaman. We explain what's actually happening under the hood (mods vs. decompiles vs. two game engines talking to each other), check out Rehan Sheikh's Universal Modder toolkit and talk about how you can start making your own. The lawyers will def have thoughts. Also: OpenAI's DevDay brought Dots, always-on agents with their own cloud computers that connect to 4,000+ apps, plus ChatGPT Space, a new $500 a month plan, the Agents and Decisions APIs and GPT-6.1 Sol. Gavin put Sol head to head with Claude Opus 5.5 and, well, Opus won. Google finally announced Gemini 4 with huge benchmark numbers. Plus: Gavin's agent Fig used Opus 5.5 to make a 27-minute documentary almost entirely on its own (script, AI host, edit and music) with about six hours of his notes. We break down the process, the cost and where it got weird. Then quick hits on Ideogram 4.5, Kling 4.0 and ElevenLabs v4, what came out of the White House AI summit, and in AI See What You Did There: a Spider-Man browser game, a Succession-style AI series and Stallone doing very dangerous stunts. THE LAWYERS ARE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOAT.   // Chapters // 00:00 AI Is Modding Every Video Game Right Now 05:32 How AI Game Modding Actually Works with Opus 5.5 13:15 OpenAI DevDay: Dots The Personal AI Assistant (Again) 18:17 ChatGPT Spaces 20:40 GPT-6.1 Sol vs Claude Opus 5.5: Gavin's Test 27:30 Gemini 4 Is Finally Announced (Benchmarks vs Reality) 29:41 Gavin's AI Agent Made A 27-Minute Documentary With Opus 5.5 41:29 Quick Tools: Ideogram 4.5, Kling 4.0 & ElevenLabs v4 43:57 The White House AI Summit & Jensen's "Near Term Pain" 48:43 AI See What You Did There: SpiderBench, AI Succession & Stallone Stunts   // Show Links // Skate 3 skateboarding inside Modern Warfare 2 https://x.com/chasmmmmmmmmmmm/status/2104349115521888748 Minecraft x Skyrim https://x.com/chasmmmmmmmmmmm/status/2105046595548967150 How SkyCraft works (Minecraft and Skyrim running side by side) https://github.com/chasmlol/SkyCraft Call of Duty Zombies on the web (creator's claim, unverified) https://x.com/p_e_cooper/status/2104980433972703483 Portal x CoD Zombies https://x.com/p_e_cooper/status/2105387636131024992 Minecraft and Mario in Dark Souls https://x.com/Deltaroo3D/status/2105345162771648883 Sega's Seaman decompiled with Astra (creator's claim, unverified) https://x.com/145k4/status/2105318135104446965 Universal Modder by Rehan Sheikh https://x.com/rehan_shei/status/2105161487509852622 https://github.com/rehan-remade/universal-modder OpenAI introduces Dots https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2104984504133918973 OpenAI DevDay 2026 keynote https://www.youtube.com/live/Fls_onRviPM The DevDay demo fail https://www.youtube.com/live/Fls_onRviPM?t=697 ChatGPT Space https://chatgpt.com/features/space/ Introducing GPT-6.1 Sol https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-sol/ Gavin's GPT-6.1 Sol vs Opus 5.5 test https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2105053143000359351 Google announces Gemini 4 https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-4-argon/ Bloomberg on Gemini 4 inside Google https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-30/google-grapples-with-employee-skepticism-about-new-gemini-model Gavin's Opus 5.5 documentary https://youtu.be/cyeTIEy2qus Ideogram 4.5 https://x.com/ideogram_ai/status/2105327223431737780 Kling 4.0 https://kling.ai/blog/kling40-kling-visual-realism-creative-control-introducing-storytelling ElevenLabs v4 https://elevenlabs.io/docs/changelog/2026/9/28 The White House AI summit https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-host-zuckerberg-anthropics-amodei-other-ai-titans-tuesday-2026-09-29/ Jensen Huang on near term pain https://youtu.be/HjurAWAr_nY?si=zg58A9WRpswzm10P SpiderBench: an Opus 5.5 Spider-Man browser game https://x.com/xikhar/status/2104001664793600012 AI Succession doomer series https://x.com/greghunkins/status/2105071760538316916 Stallone stunt videos https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1wqr6ac/a_dangerous_stunt_to_warn_about_the_real_danger/ https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1wquj9y/dangerous_dojo_stunt/   // Join the AI For Humans community // Join the AI For Humans Discord https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Support AI For Humans on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow Subscribe to the AI For Humans newsletter https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow AI For Humans on X: @AIForHumansShow https://x.com/AIForHumansShow Follow AI For Humans on TikTok: @aiforhumansshow https://www.tiktok.com/@aiforhumansshow Speaking and booking https://www.aiforhumans.show/

  6. Sep 24

    Opus 5.5 is our favorite AI model (so far).

    AI news this week: Claude Opus 5.5 is INSANE and we love it. Faster, cheaper, better. So much for the AI slowdown. Oh and OpenAI's new thing is good too. On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell go hands on with Claude Opus 5.5, which might be the best model we've ever used (for now). Anthropic says it hits Fable-level performance on most things at about 40% less cost than Opus 5, the writing is clearer, and yes, the five hour usage limits went up and you can now bank your resets. Then we get into what people are already making with it: a guitar store sim, a music-based side-scroller, a Mario Kart benchmark, an underwater exploration game in 3MB, claymation built in Blender, a pop punk single made entirely in code and a lot of very juicy animations. Also: OpenAI answered with GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, two new models that are faster and a lot cheaper than what came before. We compare them with Opus 5.5 (robot hands drawing, pelicans on bicycles in Blender), wonder what OpenAI has lined up for DevDay, and talk about Bel, the reported secret model that's beating the math. Oh, and there's a new Grok. Grok 4.7. It's out. (crickets) Plus: Gavin used Meshy 7.1 to turn a few photos of himself into a rigged, animated 3D model and then built Gavin At Large with his Opus 5.5 agent, a game where a giant Gavin wrecks a lil town. In Actually Useful AI, GPT-6 Astra makes simple motion graphics for a real book trailer. And in AI See What You Did There: Dario vs Sam in a very weird gun fight showdown and what happens when you point Claude at the Moving Image Archive. AI SLOWDOWN? NEVER HEARD OF HER. // Chapters //   00:00 Claude Opus 5.5 & GPT-6 Sol: So Much For The AI Slowdown 03:35 Claude Opus 5.5: Fable-Level Performance For Less (And Bigger Usage Limits) 11:45 Opus 5.5 Is Crazy Good At Making Games 18:02 Opus 5.5 Creative Use Cases: Claymation, Animation, & Education Tools 23:28 GPT-6 Sol & Luna: OpenAI's Faster, Cheaper Models 27:47 What's Next? OpenAI's Rumored Bel Model & Grok 4.7 33:22 Giant Gavin: Turning Myself Into A 3D Model With Meshy 7.1 39:03 Actually Useful AI: GPT-6 Astra Makes Motion Graphics 41:35 AI See What You Did There: Dario vs Sam & The Moving Image Archive   // Show Links // Introducing Claude Opus 5.5 https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-5 Opus 5.5 guitar store sim https://x.com/bijanbowen/status/2102532400353829356 https://x.com/bijanbowen/status/2102647714857222312 Opus 5.5 music-based side-scroller https://x.com/riku720720/status/2102547249834385584 Opus 5.5 on the Mario Kart bench https://x.com/sawyerhood/status/2102550264914038834 Underwater exploration game in 3MB https://claude.ai/artifact/ReCBQGZ4EirKSiEmT8XXfs Card pack opening (made with a very simple prompt) https://claude.ai/artifact/FiowCxgcuqAvjL9ANRYjQU Claude juice animation https://claude.ai/share/33a38af0-97cd-4d4b-a9af-ae065de70436 Using Blender to make claymation animation https://x.com/JacobMolBio/status/2102569129026916389 Full blown animations https://x.com/other__reality/status/2102514581684052169 A pop punk single made entirely in code https://x.com/aj_dev_smith/status/2102575577563570450 Interactive lens lab https://x.com/RyanSael/status/2102591147927654847 Introducing GPT-6 Sol and Luna https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-sol-and-luna/ Robot hand drawing comparison https://x.com/dimentary/status/2102539444834402314 Pelican on a bicycle in Blender test https://x.com/atomic_chat_hq/status/2102492834485895265 Grok 4.7 https://x.com/SpaceXAI/status/2102069815225586149 Meshy 7.1 multi-image to 3D on fal https://fal.ai/models/meshy/v7.1/multi-image-to-3d Gavin At Large (the Giant Gavin game) https://gavin-at-large.vercel.app Kim's New Book: Write a Novel in 100 Days https://kimpurcell.com/ Dario vs Sam weird gun fight showdown https://x.com/Xanderwow_A/status/2101800791795274106 Moving Image Archive https://x.com/covacut/status/2100990018391265297 Gavin's Claude makes a video from the archive (Fable 5.1) https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2101818839512281116 And the updated version with Opus 5.5 https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2102632595792199944   // Join the AI For Humans community // Join the AI For Humans Discord https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Support AI For Humans on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow Subscribe to the AI For Humans newsletter https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow AI For Humans on X: @AIForHumansShow https://x.com/AIForHumansShow Follow AI For Humans on TikTok: @aiforhumansshow https://www.tiktok.com/@aiforhumansshow Speaking and booking https://www.aiforhumans.show/

  7. Sep 18

    Instinct & Meta Muse Are AI Agents That Can Run Your Life. We Let One Try.

    AI news this week: Personal AI agents like Instinct and Meta's Muse now book your repairs, make your calls and talk to other agents. We let one into our life. On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell dig into the week personal AI agents got real. Gavin has been living with Instinct, the viral assistant that just raised a ton on money while still in private testing. It works over text, WhatsApp and now actual phone calls, people are using it to schedule dryer repairs, and this week a stranger's Instinct asked to talk to Gavin's Instinct. It also handed out Kevin's personal info by default because it was a lil over-eager, which is where Kevin's finger wag (and the terms of service) come in. Then there's Muse, Meta's new personal agent that lives in its own app and inside WhatsApp, how it's different from OpenClaw, and the rumors that OpenAI's version is close. Also: everyone suddenly wants to slow AI down. Dario Amodei published "We Must Pace the Frontier," Sam Altman said he agrees, Demis Hassabis said it points to the right path, Elon Musk said "Dario is right," and the White House is not on board. We try to make sense of why this is happening now (recursive self-improvement, the Hugging Face incident, and Sam talking up an unreleased model that's crushing math) and what it means for you. OpenAI also shared a new framework for publicly reporting model misalignment. Plus: Jev from TypeSafe AI is a new sort of model. It's not a chatbot. It makes fast typed decisions in 70 to 500 milliseconds, which means it can play Doom and Mario in real time, trade stocks, fly a drone and power a lil game called Jev Hero. And in AI See What You Did There: Claude Opus 5 makes really cool JavaScript animations (Gavin tried it too), the AI Seinfeld videos are getting good, and MiniMax nails micro expressions. MY AI WILL CALL YOUR AI. PLEASE DON'T GIVE IT MY SOCIAL. // Show Links // Instinct https://instinct.com/ TechCrunch: Instinct's AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/24/instincts-powerful-ai-assistant-is-raising-privacy-and-security-concerns/ Gavin's Instinct experience, continued https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2100016746631721459 Instinct scheduled a dryer repair https://x.com/eliweisss/status/2098918455957189107 Instinct can now handle phone calls https://x.com/noahrshinn/status/2100262985491231101 Meta introduces Muse, its personal AI agent https://about.fb.com/news/2026/09/introducing-muse-personal-ai-agent/ Sam Altman's tease (OpenAI's version is a rumor, not confirmed) https://x.com/sama/status/2100351958167220547 Sam Altman on the unreleased model beating all the math https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/2100144714251198466 Dario Amodei: We Must Pace the Frontier https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier Sam Altman agrees with Dario https://x.com/sama/status/2098811563415150910 Demis Hassabis on pacing the frontier https://x.com/demishassabis/status/2098909516582490602 Elon Musk at the All-In Summit https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2099737765260763348 OpenAI's framework for reporting model misalignment https://openai.com/index/model-misalignment-reporting-framework/ Kim's New Book: Write a Novel in 100 Days https://kimpurcell.com/ TypeSafe AI introduces System One models and Jev https://typesafe.ai/blog/introducing-system-one-models-and-jev https://x.com/CompleteSkeptic/status/2099925682726002904 Jev plays Doom in real time https://x.com/CompleteSkeptic/status/2099925687465570372 Jev plays Mario https://x.com/faadilhshaik/status/2100086301894881578 Jev as a real-time stock buyer and seller https://x.com/jarrodwatts/status/2100356151468585346 Jev organizing and filtering types of words (with demo) https://x.com/stevekrouse/status/2100287368221659289 https://typesafe-demo.val.run/ Jev drone traversal https://x.com/EGafni/status/2100386169100149229 Jev Hero https://jevhero.val.run/ Pause Gate, told through fruit https://x.com/charliebcurran/status/2099981045655556370 Claudio of Anthropos https://x.com/arikuschnir/status/2100555376856830381 Claude Opus 5 makes really cool JavaScript animations https://x.com/kevin_t_ngo/status/2099858454043349342 Gavin's Claude takes a shot at it https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2100404534514536955 The AI Seinfeld videos are getting good https://x.com/rydudebro/status/2100055497751646320 MiniMax micro expressions https://x.com/SD_Tutorial/status/2097966014239781051   // Join the AI For Humans community // Join the AI For Humans Discord https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Support AI For Humans on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow Subscribe to the AI For Humans newsletter https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow AI For Humans on X: @AIForHumansShow https://x.com/AIForHumansShow Follow AI For Humans on TikTok: @aiforhumansshow https://www.tiktok.com/@aiforhumansshow Speaking and booking https://www.aiforhumans.show/

  8. Sep 9

    GPT-6 Astra Does Everything. Here's What It's Actually Good At.

    AI news this week: GPT-6 Astra is here and it does everything. We spent a week inside it (Blender, GarageBand, a full live game) to find out what it's actually great at. On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell go hands-on with OpenAI's Astra, aka GPT-6, and it's real good (and real expensive). The headline for us is computer use, and specifically Blender: Astra builds 3D scenes from a sentence, and the internet is already making Backrooms worlds, a hyper-real Palace of Fine Arts, and the Billie Jean dance. Gavin ran his own experiments, including a Parappa The Rapper style animation and a head-to-head with GPT 5.6. Plus: Astra identifying sounds from spectrograms, driving MS Paint and Canva, editing a full project, playing Zork as a walk-around game, remaking Paperboy in 3D, editing Super Nintendo games in real time, making music in Logic, and a League of Legends "cease and desist edition" that raises the big question of how copyright even keeps up with this. Also: the OpenAI Navier-Stokes math drama. NYU's Tristan Buckmaster and Anthropic's Levent Alpöge used AI to make a real advance on a 200-year-old fluid problem, and then, according to Buckmaster, OpenAI raced in with a 100-page proof of the same route and things got very ugly over credit. When your AI collaborator's lab can see what you're close to, who owns the idea? Plus: Gavin built King of the Prompts, a live competitive prompting game made with Astra and MiniMax H3 Max, and he'll tell you what it is, why he made it, and what it costs to run. And an AI See What You Did There with Skyrim: Senior Living, AI Denzel Washington delivering maybe the best AI video ever made, and a fruit fly brain that learned the YMCA (and lost the ability to love). WE'RE DEEP IN THE ASTRA JUICE. SEND HELP (AND TOKENS). // Chapters //   00:00 GPT-6 Astra Is Real Good (And Real Expensive) 03:35 What Astra Is Actually Good At: Computer Use 06:15 Astra In Blender: Backrooms, Palace Of Fine Arts & Billie Jean 10:57 Astra Remakes Paperboy & Will People Play AI Games? 16:20 Astra Makes Music In Logic (And Simulates A DJ Stage) 19:40 Kevin's Existential Crisis Of App Release 22:50 The OpenAI Navier-Stokes Drama: Who Owns An AI-Assisted Proof? 27:59 Gavin Built King Of The Prompts (Astra + MiniMax H3 Max) 35:15 AI See What You Did There: Skyrim Senior Living, AI Denzel & FLY-M-C-A   // Show Links // OpenAI introduces GPT-6 Astra https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/ Duncan Trussell's Backrooms in Blender (the whole thread is great) https://x.com/duncantrussell/status/2096003511104508411 Hyper-realistic Palace of Fine Arts in Blender https://x.com/sharifshameem/status/2095653641164329143 Recreating the Billie Jean dance in Blender https://x.com/flavioAd/status/2097067419248296389 Gavin's Parappa The Rapper style animation https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2096454789328752682 Gavin: Astra builds a scene from scratch vs GPT 5.6 https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2096234912441626724 Astra identifies sounds from spectrograms https://x.com/maxxrubin_/status/2096892510241268094 Astra in MS Paint (and Canva) https://x.com/The_Alex/status/2096776453283360803 Zork as a walk-around game https://x.com/emollick/status/2096047660662722620 Paperboy 3D remake https://x.com/builtbysketch/status/2096515959469072630 League of Legends: Cease and Desist Edition https://x.com/konstiwohlwend/status/2097164513527357608 Matt Shumer's AI agent Unreal project https://x.com/mattshumer_/status/2096034353344139519 SuperAstra: edit Super Nintendo games in real time https://x.com/scottastevenson/status/2096972908828426747 https://github.com/ScottStevenson/SuperAstra Astra connected to Logic to make music https://x.com/MarioSaputra/status/2096908100871836123 DJ stage simulations https://x.com/cerspense/status/2096960824535572498 The OpenAI Navier-Stokes credit drama (Buckmaster's account) https://x.com/cguth_7/status/2097206622602854882 King of the Prompts (Gavin's new game) https://kingoftheprompts.com/ Skyrim: Senior Living https://x.com/GORMTHEOLD25/status/2096994048758137013 AI Denzel Washington on AI slop https://x.com/Nekodificador/status/2096682353011630237 FLY-M-C-A: a fruit fly brain learns the YMCA https://x.com/dhruvbhatia0/status/2097047404239581265   // Join the AI For Humans community // Join the AI For Humans Discord https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Support AI For Humans on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow Subscribe to the AI For Humans newsletter https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow AI For Humans on X: @AIForHumansShow https://x.com/AIForHumansShow

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