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Covering the biggest news of the century - the arrival of smarter-than-human AI. From the author of Simple Bench, which reveals the remaining gap between LLM and human reasoning. Hype-free, and the British accent is a freebie bonus.

  1. Sora 2 - It will only get more realistic from here

    OCT 1

    Sora 2 - It will only get more realistic from here

    Sora 2 - the start of the infinite slop-feed or a key step to a generalist agent? Better than VEO 3 or over-hyped? I bring out 6 details you may have missed, contrast the announcement to Periodic Labs and even squeeze in some Claude Sonnet 4.5 analysis. Maybe I should make my videos longer… https://80000hours.org/aiexplained AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 00:40 - Two models? 01:15 - Rollout Details 01:43 - Versus Sora 1 / Veo 3 04:30 - Sora App / Social Media 06:40 - Masterplan 09:30 - Generalist Agent? Periodic Labs 12:05 - Claude Sonnet 4.5 13:42 - Future Outlook Announcement: https://openai.com/index/sora-2/ Launch Video: https://www.youtube.com/live/gzneGhpXwjU System Card: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/50d5973c-c4ff-4c2d-986f-c72b5d0ff069/sora_2_system_card.pdf Sam Altman Blog Post on Sora App: https://blog.samaltman.com/sora-2 Most Intelligent Claim: https://x.com/willdepue/status/1973089331284681110 GTA: https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/1973298436536766666 Meta Vibes: https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/1971295156411433228?s=46 Altman on Regulations: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5jjk4CDnj9tA7ugxr/openai-email-archives-from-musk-v-altman OpenAI Profit: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-first-half-results-4-3-billion-sales-2-5-billion-cash-burn?rc=sy0ihq Periodic Labs: https://periodic.com/ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/technology/ai-meta-google-openai-periodic.html https://x.com/LiamFedus/status/1973055380193431965 https://baincapitalventures.com/insight/we-must-know-we-will-know/?s=09 Sonnet 4.5: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-5 https://simple-bench.com/ Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/

    16 min
  2. OpenAI Tests if GPT-5 Can Automate Your Job - 4 Unexpected Findings

    SEP 26

    OpenAI Tests if GPT-5 Can Automate Your Job - 4 Unexpected Findings

    An OpenAI report released in the last 24 hours is the best look we have as to whether 2025 AI can automate your job. I’ll go through 4 unexpected findings, from which model is best at what, to practical tips and massive caveats. Plus UFC robots, radiologist essay, don’t trust videos and the blockers to the singularity.  Gray Swan: https://app.grayswan.ai/ai-explained GDPval: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/d5eb7428-c4e9-4a33-bd86-86dd4bcf12ce/GDPval.pdf [GDP Impact: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/release/tables?rid=331&eid=211 Task List: https://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/11-9141.00 Summer Tweet: https://x.com/LHSummers/status/1971252567981146347 Emad: https://x.com/EMostaque/status/1971254153067593739 Robots: https://x.com/cixliv/status/1967663286679478759 Unitree G1: https://x.com/UnitreeRobotics/status/1970039940022239491 Don’t Trust Video: https://x.com/AISafetyMemes/status/1970453369446871420 AGI Tweet: https://x.com/hyhieu226/status/1968378785709133915 Blockers to the Singularity: https://www.patreon.com/posts/blockers-to-and-139264812 Framework: https://gemini.google.com/share/f4b9c85a6ae9 METR Study (Dev Slowdown): https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/ Karpathy Tweet: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1971220449515516391 Radiology Essay: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-algorithm-will-see-you-now/ Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 00:55 - OpenAI Report Summary 02:40 - Tipping Point Speed-up 04:11 - Better than Industry Experts? 06:33 - Big Caveat 11:10 - Karpathy and the Radiologist Analogy 13:30 - Outro

    14 min
  3. ChatGPT Will Guess your Age, Flirt if Asked, and Can Call the Cops

    SEP 16

    ChatGPT Will Guess your Age, Flirt if Asked, and Can Call the Cops

    Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, announced a set of new ‘protections’ and ‘privileges’ for ChatGPT users, requiring a significant amount of trust from users. From predicting your age based on your chat to calling law enforcement if you are at risk of harm, to allowing non-minors to flirt. But amidst all of these announcements, there are interview snippets you may have missed, as Altman dramatically revises his predictions of AI impact on jobs. Plus a Hassbis backtrack to boot. https://80000hours.org/aiexplained Calling the Cops: https://openai.com/index/teen-safety-freedom-and-privacy/ Age Prediction: https://openai.com/index/building-towards-age-prediction/ Not Everyone Will Agree: https://x.com/sama/status/1967955739911364693?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet Theory 1: NYT Lawsuit: https://openai.com/index/response-to-nyt-data-demands/ Theory 2: FTC Investigation into AI Companions: https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/1966167585994764743 YT Does the Same: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/youtube-ai-powered-technology-teen-users/ Carlsen Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KmpT-BoVf4 vs Senate Testimony (70% Jobs): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CWVP8-XVjQ Hallucinations Paper: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/d04913be-3f6f-4d2b-b283-ff432ef4aaa5/why-language-models-hallucinate.pdf Hassbis Quote 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toShbNUGAyo vs Quote 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr3Sh2PKA8Y

    12 min
  4. An ‘AI Bubble’? What Altman Actually said, the Facts and Nano Banana

    AUG 26

    An ‘AI Bubble’? What Altman Actually said, the Facts and Nano Banana

    Wait, why did Sam Altman say AI was in a bubble? Or did he? Is it? 8 points for you to consider, before we all get distracted by Nano Banana. Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 01:14 - Sam Altman Clarification 02:30 - Media Calls a Bubble (for the tenth time) 03:40 - MIT and McKinsey Analysed 08:21 - Incremental Progress Deceptive 12:07 - Reasoning Breakthroughs 15:31 - CEOs might not know their products 17:25 - But did stocks go down? 17:31 - Media is Contradictory of course https://donate.redcross.org.uk/appeal/gaza-crisis-appeal Bubble about to burst: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/20/ai-report-triggering-panic-and-fear-on-wall-street/ Nano Banana: https://blog.google/products/gemini/updated-image-editing-model/ https://ai.studio/banana McKinsey Report: https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/our-insights/seizing-the-agentic-ai-advantage#/ https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/our-insights/the-state-of-ai#/ Revenue: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mckinsey-consulting-firms-ai-strategy-89fbf1be MIT Report: https://mlq.ai/media/quarterly_decks/v0.1_State_of_AI_in_Business_2025_Report.pdf Safe Superintelligence: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/12/openai-co-founder-ilya-sutskevers-safe-superintelligence-reportedly-valued-at-32b/ Thinking Machines Lab: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/mira-muratis-thinking-machines-lab-is-worth-12b-in-seed-round/ WSJ Prediction 2024: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-ai-revolution-is-already-losing-steam-a93478b1 WP Prediction 2023: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/05/ai-hype-bubble-chatgpt/ Companies are Pouring Billions into AI: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/business/ai-business-payoff-lags.html Consumer Surplus: https://www.wsj.com/opinion/ais-overlooked-97-billion-contribution-to-the-economy-users-service-da6e8f55 Figure AI robot: https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1958193476639826383 GDP Bet: https://x.com/adamdangelo/status/1627726566259318784?lang=en Genie 3 Immersion: https://x.com/holynski_/status/1953879983535141043 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1953861448431718662 htttps://simple-bench.com MMMU: https://mmmu-benchmark.github.io/#leaderboard  Prophet Arena: https://www.prophetarena.co/leaderboard NYT Jobs: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/opinion/ai-job-loss-deindustrialization.html Dawn of Reasoning?: https://openreview.net/pdf?id=FkKBxp0FhR vs :https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.04121 ARC-AGI: https://arcprize.org/arc-agi/1/ https://x.com/fchollet/status/1870169764762710376?lang=en-GB Turing Test: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.23674 Mathematics of Starvation: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/31/the-mathematics-of-starvation-how-israel-caused-a-famine-in-gaza https://donate.redcross.org.uk/appeal/gaza-crisis-appeal https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/ METR Interview: https://www.patreon.com/c/aiexplained/posts AlphaEvolve: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-coding-agent-for-designing-advanced-algorithms/ Paper: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/DeepMind.com/Blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-coding-agent-for-designing-advanced-algorithms/AlphaEvolve.pdf Amodei: https://kantrowitz.medium.com/the-making-of-anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-449777529dd6 https://www.theloganbartlettshow.com/archive/ep-82-dario-amodeis-ai-predictions-through-2030#:~:text=DARIO%3A%20I%20think%20our%20concern,being%20responsible%20to%20accelerate%20things Unreleased OpenAI: https://x.com/alexwei_/status/1954966393419599962 VLMs Tricked: https://x.com/an_vo12/status/1943715159559545186 AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained

    19 min
  5. GPT-5 has Arrived

    AUG 7

    GPT-5 has Arrived

    GPT-5 will change how hundreds of millions of people use AI. Yes, you might have to forgive the chart crimes, the underwhelming livestream and Altman hype… But it’s a good model. I have read the 50 page system card in full, have the benchmark scores, coding tests, and things you might have missed. https://app.grayswan.ai/ai-explained Announcement: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5/ System Card: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/8124a3ce-ab78-4f06-96eb-49ea29ffb52f/gpt5-system-card-aug7.pdf Extra Paper: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/be60c07b-6bc2-4f54-bcee-4141e1d6c69a/gpt-5-safe_completions.pdf Altman tweet: https://x.com/sama/status/1953551377873117369 Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uu_VJeVVfo METR Report: https://metr.github.io/autonomy-evals-guide/gpt-5-report/ ARC-AGI-2: https://x.com/fchollet/status/1953511631054680085 Claude Opus 4.1: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-1 MMMU: https://mmmu-benchmark.github.io/ Cursor Praise: https://x.com/ryolu_/status/1953531724895596669

    15 min
  6. Genie 3: The World Becomes Playable (DeepMind)

    AUG 5

    Genie 3: The World Becomes Playable (DeepMind)

    Soon, anything will be playable. A photo becomes an interactive world, a selfie becomes a new game. Genie 3 from Google, debuting just 2 hours ago, is what I mean, and I have the full analysis, plus the pushback I gave the authors (will it really lead to reliable AI agents? Is that even the point?). You make your own mind up, but it’s certainly fascinating, and not to be overlooked in the week that will bring us GPT-5. https://80000hours.org/aiexplained AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Chapters:  00:00 - Introduction 01:27 - Background and Access 04:58 - Caveats 07:24 - Demo 10:12 - Conclusion Announcement: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/genie-3-a-new-frontier-for-world-models/ Isaac Labs: https://developer.nvidia.com/isaac/lab Genie 2 Coverage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIm2T7h_a0M TED Talk Roblox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OAP0ho5AUg DeepThink Post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/deep-ish-on-new-135688441 AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/

    12 min
  7. How Not to Read a Headline on AI (ft. new Olympiad Gold, GPT-5 …)

    JUL 21

    How Not to Read a Headline on AI (ft. new Olympiad Gold, GPT-5 …)

    GPT-5 did what? OpenAI ahead of Google? There are 9 ways to misread the headlines of the last 48 hours, so this video is here to tell you what happened, sans sizzle. It’s been a fairly momentous last few days, so let’s dive in to the International Math Olympiad Gold, GPT-5 alpha release, whether mathematicians are out of jobs, and the white collar impact by year’s end. Job Board: https://80000hours.org/aiexplained New Documentary on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/our-new-age-of-133960279 Chapters:  00:00 - Introduction 00:18 - AI > Mathematicians? 01:23 - OPENAI vs GOOGLE 02:42 - Irrelevant to Jobs or … 06:45 - White-collar jobs gone? 10:26 - AI is Plateauing? 12:00 - We Don’t Know the Details… 14:33 - GPT-5 alpha 14:54 - Nothing but Exponentials? 15:53 - No Impact? Announcement: https://x.com/alexwei_/status/1946477742855532918 UCLA Math Prof: https://x.com/ErnestRyu/status/1946699302308635130 ChatGPT Agent: https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-agent/ Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jn_RpbPbEc&t=796s System Card: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/839e66fc-602c-48bf-81d3-b21eacc3459d/chatgpt_agent_system_card.pdf Jerry Tworek (OpenAI): https://x.com/MillionInt/status/1946556255490982022 https://x.com/MillionInt/status/1946558130906968330 Noam Brown Details: https://x.com/polynoamial/status/1946478249187377206 Trieu Tranh Retweet: https://x.com/Mihonarium/status/1946880931723194389 Neel Nanda: https://x.com/NeelNanda5/status/1946602953370173647 Terence Tao: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao Sam Altman: https://x.com/sama/status/1946569252296929727 METR Dev Study: https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/ Ravid Schwatz: https://x.com/ziv_ravid/status/1946378712716562605 AlphaEvolve: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-coding-agent-for-designing-advanced-algorithms/ https://simple-bench.com/ Meta Salary: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/abel-founder-claims-meta-offered-usd1-25-billion-over-four-years-to-ai-hire-person-still-said-no-despite-equivalent-of-usd312-million-yearly-salary $2k per month: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-considers-higher-priced-subscriptions-to-its-chatbot-ai-preview-of-the-informations-ai-summit?rc=sy0ihq

    17 min
  8. Grok 4 - 10 New Things to Know

    JUL 10

    Grok 4 - 10 New Things to Know

    Grok 4 is here, but did you know these 10 things about the new model? From benchmark caveats to soloing science, $300 a month secrets to Grok 5 promises, here's 10 new things to know in just under 12 minutes. AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 00:22 - Benchmark Results 02:11 - Benchmark Caveats 02:59 - ARC-AGI 2  03:35 - SimpleBench 04:49 - ‘Humanity’s Last Exam’ 07:20 - SuperGrok Heavy Price 07:58 - API Price 08:12 - Grok 5, Gemini 3.0 Beta, GPT-5 09:12 - System Prompt Change + $1B a month, pollution 10:20 - Not soloing science, helping you solo code Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tQ_KrlHgfg&t=1s Price: https://grok.com/#subscribe https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/1943166841150644622 Gemini DeepThink: https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/google-gemini-updates-io-2025/#deep-think https://simple-bench.com/ ARC-AGI 2: https://x.com/arcprize/status/1943168950763950555 Humanity’s Last Exam: https://agi.safe.ai/ SmartGPT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVade_8H8mE New Power Plant, 1m GPUs: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-xai-power-plant-overseas-to-power-1-million-gpus Gemini 3.0 beta: https://web.archive.org/web/20250709174548/https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/blob/b0cce952860b9ff51a0f731fbb8a7649ead23530/packages/cli/src/ui/utils/errorParsing.test.ts Pollution: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/24/elon-musk-xai-memphis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8rU4dv2w8Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VJT2JeDCyw System Prompt: https://github.com/xai-org/grok-prompts/blob/535aa67a6221ce4928761335a38dea8e678d8501/ask_grok_system_prompt.j2 Burn Rate: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-17/musk-s-xai-burning-through-1-billion-a-month-as-costs-pile-up Ron Johnson: https://x.com/jdcmedlock/status/1939814516503847259 Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/

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Covering the biggest news of the century - the arrival of smarter-than-human AI. From the author of Simple Bench, which reveals the remaining gap between LLM and human reasoning. Hype-free, and the British accent is a freebie bonus.

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