AI Explained
AI Explained covers the latest developments in artificial intelligence, focusing on the arrival of smarter-than-human AI. The host, creator of Simple Bench, examines the remaining reasoning gap between humans and large language models. He is also the solo developer of LM Council. The podcast includes discussions and points listeners to exclusive videos, a newsletter, and community resources.
Episodes
Apple’s ‘AI Can’t Reason’ Claim Seen By 13M+, What You Need to Know
What to make of those headlines that AI can’t reason, seen by tens of millions? I cover the Apple paper in layman’s terms, what it means and doesn’t mean, and what’s next. Thanks to Storyblocks for sponsoring this video! Download unlimited stock media at one set price with Storyblocks: https://storyblocks.com/AIExplainedPlus o3-pro and whether it is my current most-recommended model.AI Insiders ($
GPT 4: Full Breakdown (14 Details You May Have Missed)
I just read the entire technical report on GPT 4, not just the promotional hype. And boy does it have some interesting details. I have gathered the 14 extra details that you, or at least the media, may miss from the release. The last one is more than a little wild.These include things like the training secrets, the cherry-picked bar exam stat, text-to-image breakthroughs, and some truly astounding
Claude Fable Blocked - 11 Quiet Details on What’s Next
Claude Fable 5 banned, but what’s the bigger story. We go through 11 under-reported details, so you have the context to see what’s coming next for your use of AI. From whether the ban will last, what the possible motives are, what the model can actually do, and some wild over-extrapolations going on.Check out my fast-growing (!) app, free to use, and code INSIDER15 for paid tiers: https://lmcounci
Time Until Superintelligence: 1-2 Years, or 20? Something Doesn't Add Up
Superintelligence when? This question is more urgent than ever as we hear competing timelines from Inflection AI, OpenAI and the leaders at the Center for AI Safety. This video not only covers the what was said, it offers some data on what superintelligence is projected to be capable of. I discuss things that can hasten those timelines (see the new Netflix doc, Top 1% for Creativity and the AI Nat
GPT 5 is All About Data
Drawing upon 6 academic papers, interview snippets, possible leaks, and my own extensive research, I put together everything we might know about GPT 5: what will determine its IQ, its timeline and its impact on the job market and beyond.Starting with an insider interview on the names of GPT models, such as GPT 4 and GPT 5, then looking into the clearest hint that GPT 4 is inside Bing. Next, I brie
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-explainedAI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplainedAnnouncement
Fable 5 vs GPT 5.6 Sol: The Early Results
Fable 5 (newly re-released) vs GPT 5.6 Sol, what comparisons can we unearth? Plus, Sonnet 5, a 5% equity seizure by US Govt, the ‘largest heist’, Beetlejuice and more…Exclusive Vids in AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplainedChapters:00:00 - Introduction01:06 - Fable Timeline02:59 - Sol Release?06:01 - the Chinese Angle07:35 - 5% Stake09:10 - Fable vs Sol - the numbers13:57 - Sol Mis
AI CEO: ‘Stock Crash Could Stop AI Progress’, Llama 4 Anti-climax + ‘Superintelligence in 2027’ ...
The latest on Llama 4, and whether it signals a slowdown in AI, or solid progress. Plus, a deep dive on that viral prediction of superintelligence by 2027, and Dario Amodei’s cautionary words on what could stop AI progress in its tracks. o3 news, and more, as well.Weights & Biases: https://weave-docs.wandb.ai/?utm_source=sponsorship&utm_medium=simple_bench&utm_campaign=ai_explainedDeepSeek Doc: ht
OpenAI Insights and Training Data Shenanigans - 7 'Complicated' Developments + Guest Star
Not all is as it seems, not just with the tumult of OpenAI, but with Google Gemini, privacy leaks from every model on the market, synthetic data and even the end of this video. Stick around to the end and you might even see a guest appearance from a star researcher. https://www.patreon.com/AIExplainedSutskever Tweet: https://twitter.com/ilyasut/status/1730668386705961067OpenAI Blog: https://opena
Sam Altman's World Tour, in 16 Moments
Missed by much of the media, Sam Altman (and co) have revealed at least 16 surprising things over his World Tour. From AI's designing AIs to 'unstoppable opensource', the 'customisation' leak (with a new 16k ChatGPT and 'steerable GPT 4), AI and religion, and possible regrets over having 'pushed the button'. I'll bring in all of this and eleven other insights, together with a new and highly releva
A 100T Transformer Model Coming? Plus ByteDance Saga and the Mixtral Price Drop
With the GPT 4.5 rumours unceremoniously crushed, we are thankfully left with the real news. A potential 100T LLM, thanks to etched.ai (full breakdown of what we know), then the Mixtral price spiral revealing the decline in the cost of intelligence, a cameo appearance by Sebastien Bubeck to discuss phi-2 and a potential 13B phi-3, plus Bytedance meltdown and more.AI Insiders: https://www.patreon.c
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8 New Ways to Use Bing's Upgraded 8 [now 20] Message Limit (ft. pdfs, quizzes, tables, scenarios...)
Not only has Microsoft changed the message limit for Bing, I have come along and given you 8 brand new use cases to try out. These useful, productive, fun and informative scenarios ranges from amalgamating academic papers to debating dead philosophers, from being moments from tragedy to hacking education [through multiple choice quizzes]. Use Bing to boost your learning, increase your productivity
o3 and o4-mini - they’re great, but easy to over-hype
Critical analysis of the two most powerful new models behind ChatGPT, o3 and o4-mini. Not just the system cards, benchmarks, and my own tests, but some you may not have seen before. Yes, they can whip up amazing front-end in a few seconds, but you always have to ask what is in their data. Either way, they prove the gains from RL are just beginning…https://weave-docs.wandb.ai/?utm_source=sponsorshi
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/aiexplainedAI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplainedChapters:00:00 - Intr
A Model Explosion: GPT 5.6 Sol, Grok 4.5 and Meta Muse Rewrite the Rules
What a week in AI, for real. GPT 5.6 may actually beat Claude Fable, in what you get for your money, while the new Grok 4.5 and Meta Muse Spark 1.1 make the choice even harder. Uncovering a dozen nuggets of gold you may have missed from all the viral headlines, I can also assure you you’ll learn something you didn’t know before.For Exclusive Videos, go to AI Insiders (less than $9!): https://www.p
You Are Being Told Contradictory Things About AI
With headlines of an imminent job apocalypse, code red for ChatGPT and recursive self-improvement, at the same time as Anthropic's CEO yesterday saying we know how to scale to AGI, and Gemini 3 DeepThink out today, it is easy to get lost among the narratives and counter-narratives. So here are both, plus the facts behind them, for you to decide.https://epoch.ai/ai-explained-datacentersEpoch AI is
Did AI Just Get Commoditized? Gemini 2.5, New DeepSeek V3, and Microsoft vs OpenAI
Gemini 2.5 is out, on the same day as the new DeepSeek V3 (which should power Deepseek R2). Do both models prove AI is being commoditized? Let’s find out, on this blockbuster day of AI releases. Plus exclusives from the Information, Simple indications, Vista Bench, LM Arena and more…AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplainedChapters: 00:00 - Introduction01:15 - Gemini 2.5 Benchmarks05:
Manus AI - The Calm Before the Hypestorm … (vs Deep Research + Grok 3)
Is Manus AI the memecoin of the AI world, or legit? I’ll compare it to OpenAI’s Deep Research, Operator, Grok 3 DeepSearch and more to find out. I’ll also let you in on some of the secrets of what makes a good hype campaign, the estimated costs of Manus AI, and where it is strong. Other news (yes, Gemini image editing and research hacking, I mean you), will have to wait for a few more hours, as mi
GPT 5.2: OpenAI Strikes Back
Full GPT-5.2 breakdown - did OpenAI reclaim the crown? A story of tokens, time and cost, plus 9 details you wouldn’t get just from reading the headlines.https://www.youtube.com/@eightythousandhoursAI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplainedhttps://lmcouncil.aiChapters:00:00 - Introduction00:55 - Better than Human @ Professional Tasks?04:42 - Test time Compute07:05 - Benchmark Selection0
Phi-1: A 'Textbook' Model
After a conversation with one of the 'Textbooks Are All You Need' authors, I can now bring you insights from the new phi-1 tiny language model. See if you agree with me that it tells us so much more than how to do good coding, it affects AGI timelines by telling us whether data will be a bottleneck. I cover 5 other papers, including WizardCoder, Data Constraints (how more epochs could be used), Ti
9 of the Best Bing (GPT 4) Prompts
Everyone knows by now how to prompt ChatGPT, but what about Bing? Take prompt engineering to a whole new level with these 9 game-changing Bing Chat prompts. Did you know you can get interviewed by Bing, time travel, force Bing to improve its output and so much more? These are the best 9 prompts that I could find, after analysing over 200 prompts and trying out dozens of examples personally. You mi
Llama 2: Full Breakdown
Meta have released Llama 2, their commercially-usable successor to the opensource Llama language model that spawned Alpaca, Vicuna, Orca and so many other models. I read the full 76 page technical paper, the Responsible Use Guide, each of the release pages, the terms and conditions and have also run many of my own experiments on HuggingFace. This video covers the most noteworthy bits, including:-
GPT-6 Goes Rogue? The HuggingFace Incident, Sans Hype
An unreleased internal OpenAI model, very likely to be called GPT-6, was able to autonomously break out of its sandbox AND break into HuggingFace, just to score higher on a benchmark prompt. This video has the details you may have missed, a layperson analogy, whether this is truly novel, and more…Dozens more Exclusive videos on Patreon ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplainedChapters:00:00 - Int
AI Improves at Self-improving
AlphaEvolve is not the first system to exhibit self-improvement, but it may be the most impressive yet. AI is literally improving the hardware, architectures, data and training methods of AI itself. A deep dive into the paper, drawing on two previous interviews and 5 other papers. Plus a snippet on OpenAI’s new Codex system.Gray Swan: http://app.grayswan.ai/ai-explainedAI Insiders ($9!): https://w
Are We Back to Before? OpenAI 2.0, Inflection-2 and a Major AI Cancer Breakthrough
Hopefully the last in a trilogy of videos covering the saga at OpenAI. New revelations on the return of Sam Altman, internal investigations, Microsoft demands and employee revolts. Plus a major new model previewed from Inflection, Claude 2.1 and a major pancreatic cancer breakthrough with AI. More non-OpenAI news to come.WSJ Exclusive: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/altman-firing-openai-520a3a8cAltma
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 - Introduction01:14 - Sam Altman Clarification02:30 - Media Calls a Bubble (for the tenth time)03:40 - MIT and McKinsey Analysed08:21 - Incremental Progress Deceptive12:07 - Reasoning Breakthroughs15:31 - CEOs might not know their products17:25
GPT 4 Got Upgraded - Code Interpreter (ft. Image Editing, MP4s, 3D Plots, Data Analytics and more!)
GPT 4 Code Interpreter is unlike any other plug-in. It upgrades GPT 4 to a whole new level. I am going to show you 18 use-cases (actually more like 23), including image editing (wait till the end!), text-to-speech, video editing, 3d modelling, data analytics, QR Codes, times series, sankey diagrams, steganography, mp4s, GIFs, treemaps, better math, editing csv and excel files and much much more!Wh
SmartGPT: Major Benchmark Broken - 89.0% on MMLU + Exam's Many Errors
Has GPT4, using a SmartGPT system, broken a major benchmark, the MMLU, in more ways than one? 89.0% is an unofficial record, but do we urgently need a new, authoritative benchmark, especially in the light of today's insider info of 5x compute for Gemini than for GPT 5?Learn all about the power of exemplars, self-consistency and how you can tangibly benefit in real world examples. You'll learn more
Gemini Exponential, Demis Hassabis' ‘Proto-AGI’ coming, but …
The condensed highlights of hours of AI lab leader interviews, last-48-hour model releases, Gemini 3 Flash insights (plus it’s hidden flaw), Hassabis’ ‘proto-AGI’ and much more…https://matsprogram.org/apply?utm_source=ai-explained&utm_medium=youtube&utm_campaign=s26 Also, do check out my new app: https://lmcouncil.aiChapters: 00:00 - Introduction00:50 - Results02:44 - But… the Flaw04:49 - So Benc
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8 Ways ChatGPT 4 [Is] Better Than ChatGPT
Hear me now, quote me later: these are the 8 ways in which ChatGPT will be improved in ChatGPT 4. From critical reasoning to coding, comprehension to calculation, I will give the peer-reviewed evidence of what is to come. By examining publicly accessible benchmarks, comparable large language models and the latest research papers, we can discern the ways in which GPT4 (integrated into Bing or other
When Will AI Models Blackmail You, and Why?
In the last few days Anthropic have released an impressive honest account of how all models blackmail, no matter what goal they have, and despite prompt warnings, and other preventions. But do these models *want* this?Thanks to Storyblocks for sponsoring this video! Download unlimited stock media at one set price with Storyblocks: https://storyblocks.com/AIExplainedAI Insiders ($9!): https://www.p
Nothing Much Happens in AI, Then Everything Does All At Once
When it rains, it pours. OpenAI Operator tested and reviewed, with full paper analysis. Perplexity Assistant is useful. Then Stargate, is it all smoke and mirrors? Strong rumours of an o3+ model from Anthropic. Then a full breakdown of Deepseek R1, and what it’s training method says about the state of AI. It’s not open source BTW. Plus Humanity’s Last Exam, and Hassabis Accelerates his AGI timelin
GPT 4 is Smarter than You Think: Introducing SmartGPT
In this video, I will not only show you how to get smarter results from GPT 4 yourself, I will also showcase SmartGPT, a system which I believe, with evidence, might help beat MMLU state of the art benchmarks. This should serve as your ultimate guide for boosting the automatic technical performance of GPT 4, without even needing few shot exemplars. The video will cover papers published in the last
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 tha
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/AIExplainedChapters:00:00 - Introduction00:22 - Benchmark Results02:11 - Benchmark Caveats02:59 - ARC-AGI 2 03:35 - SimpleBench04:49 - ‘Humanity’s La
AGI Will Not Be A Chatbot - Autonomy, Acceleration, and Arguments Behind the Scenes
AGI will be so much more than a clever chatbot. Revelations this week from Demis Hassabis, Mustafa Suleyman, Wired, Time Magazine and more paint a picture of the capabilities that AGI will have, and sketch out a better idea of timelines. I cover it all, from Gemini updates, to Musk trying to stop DeepMind sale to Google, The Coming Wave to the Frontier AI Taskforce. https://www.patreon.com/AIExpla
AI is getting a little out of control
Wow. Mathematical breakthroughs that would be called genius if done by humans. A secret message-board w/ AI agent swarms leaving notes read by future versions. Hassabis leaves CEO position, or was pushed out? Not to mention news of constitutional breakdowns, Gemini 4 and Jeff Dean…https://80000hours.org/aiexplainedExclusive Videos - AI Insiders ($7/month if annual!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExpl
ChatGPT Can Now Call the Cops, but 'Wait till 2100 for Full Job Impact' - Altman
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 revi
ChatGPT's Achilles' Heel
Time for something different - a tour of ChatGPT getting things wrong, including a whole new category of errors that you might find illuminating, concerning or just entertaining. From investigating whether GPT 4 does indeed have theory of mind, to how easily it is jailbroken, to testing Inflection 1, Bard and Claude on the same puzzle that flummoxes ChatGPT to arguing that GPT 4 will just double d
AGI: (gets close), Humans: ‘Who Gets to Own it?’
A 'frontier reasoning model' from just 1000 examples (s1). A $100B Musk bid for power. Gemini 2, Rand and warning from Amodei. Here’s 7 developments you may have missed but which I would argue help us understand how the next few years will play out. From labour vs capital to automating rival companies and countries, and from non-profit shenanigans to new mini-docs, there was just too much for me n
Not Slowing Down: GAIA-1 to GPT Vision Tips, Nvidia B100 to Bard vs LLaVA
From GAIA-1 and UniSim showing that new worlds can be imagined with synthetic data, to Nvidia B100 and X100 suggesting no slow down in compute, this video will argue that AI is not slowing down. I’ll cover what that means in Robotics, Audio, Vision and even fraud, from Disney to LLaVA, Elevenlabs to exclusives from The Information (Nov 6 OpenAI Developer Conference) and Semianalysis. https://www.p
8 Signs It's The Future: Thought-to-Text, Nvidia Text-to-Video, Character AI, and P(Doom) @Ted
Here are 8 things that might have surprised you 6 weeks ago, let alone 6 months ago. From text to video to Ted Talks, I try to cover it all.Nvidia Text to Video https://research.nvidia.com/labs/toronto-ai/VideoLDM/Blockade Labs Tweet: https://twitter.com/BlockadeLabs/status/1648476832730349570And Demo: https://www.blockadelabs.com/Zip NeRF: https://jonbarron.info/zipnerf/Paper: https://arxiv.org/p
What the Freakiness of 2025 in AI Tells Us About 2026
It’s probably not possible to satisfactorily condense a 12 month’s worth of weird progress in AI, as well as predictions for the year to come, into one video. But I’m gonna try anyway because it has been a very strange time.http://matsprogram.org/s26-aieMy new app! https://lmcouncil.aiPatreon Interview: https://www.patreon.com/posts/robot-in-your-27-146376094Chapters:00:00 - Introduction00:34 - Re
Bubble or No Bubble, AI Keeps Progressing (ft. Relentless Learning + Introspection)
Don’t let headlines about bubbles distract you from the real avenues of progress being explored in AI every week, including what had been thought to be a long-term blocker - continual learning (learning on the fly). https://app.grayswan.ai/ai-explainedThis, plus models introspecting (hesitate before you berate), Nano Banana 2 possibly spotted, Chinese imagen and more.AI Insiders ($9!): https://www
The AI News You Might Have Missed This Week
From GPT 4 mapping the world to Live 3D Video, and ChatGPT UI changes to Unreal Engine, RealityGPT and Nvidia Announcements, here's 7 bits of AI news you might have missed. GPT 4 Does Geography: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.00020v1.pdfNvidia GenAI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVUQ5iJCmKsGoogle Starline Prototype: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obuyCkotJ_sCharacter AI Dark Horse: https://twitter
Anthropic: Our AI just created a tool that can ‘automate all white collar work’, Me:
A new tool, with code written *only* by AI, has gone omega-viral: Claude Cowork. But is the hype justified? What do the stats say on productivity? Where is the truth in a sea of noise? What is truth? Can we handle the truth? Where's Nemo?https://matsprogram.org/s26-aieCheck out my new app! https://lmcouncil.aiAI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplainedChapters: 00:00 - Introduction01:12
Phi-2, Imagen-2, Optimus-Gen-2: Small New Models to Change the World?
Phi-2 is a tiny model that could fit on a phone, but it outperforms huge language models like Llama 2. I explain more about how it was made and what it means. Then we see Imagen-2, the most stunning text-to-image yet, at least according to Google' images. We then glimpse Optimus 2, smaller in the sense that it's 10kg lighter! With more degrees of freedom, it's movements look a lot more humanoid. A
The Two Best AI Models/Enemies Just Got Released Simultaneously
The two models that you will hear discussed for at least the next two months - Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.3 Codex - just got released within 26 mins or each other. The full breakdown of around 250 pages of reports, with just the most interest moments, from the battle of which is best, Claude personhood, the surprising misbehaviour of Opus 4.6, and much morehttps://assemblyai.com/aiexplainedCheck ou
AI Declarations and AGI Timelines – Looking More Optimistic?
A head-spinning week of declarations, timelines, updates, papers and debates. I will cover as much as I can, not least the new all-in one interface, EmotionPrompt, executive orders analysed, Bletchley declaration, a new MIT safety paper, responsible scaling, LLMs for Chip Design, and a guest appearance from Dyson Spheres.https://www.patreon.com/AIExplainedGates Interview: https://www.handelsblatt.
ChatGPT Fails Basic Logic but Now Has Vision, Wins at Chess and Prompts a Masterpiece
ChatGPT will now have vision, but can it do basic logic? I cover the latest news - including GPT Chess! - as well as go through almost a dozen papers and how they relate to the central question of LLM logic and rationality. Starring the Reversal Curse and featuring conversations with two of the authors at the heart of it all. I also get to a DALL-E 3 vs Midjourney comparison, MuZero, MathGLM, Situ
9 New Gemini Leaks, Code Llama and A Major AI Consciousness Paper
In the last few days, we have had dramatic new leaked insights into the sheer breadth of Google Gemini, their rival to GPT 4 or, perhaps, GPT 5. Just today, we’ve had Meta’s Code Llama and, earlier, their impressive multilingual SeamlessM4T model. Yesterday, from Berkley we get new brain-computer AI transforming the life of a stroke victim, and last but definitely not least, an 88 page AI Consciou
Enter PaLM 2 (New Bard): Full Breakdown - 92 Pages Read and Gemini Before GPT 5? Google I/O
Google puts it foot on the accelerator, casting aside safety concerns to not only release a GPT 4 -competitive model, PaLM 2, but also announce that they are already training Gemini, a GPT 5 competitor [likely on TPU v5 chips]. This is truly a major day in AI history, and I try to cover it all. I'll show the benchmarks in which PaLM (which now powers Bard) beats GPT 4, and detail how they use Smar
‘Speaking Dolphin’ to AI Data Dominance, 4.1 + Kling 2.0: 7 Updates Critically Analysed
Giving some context to a hectic week of AI news. This video won’t just be about the release, then, of GPT 4.1, in the last 48 hours, Kling 2.0, a sneak-peak at the next OpenAI model, or even the new Dolphin language tool. It will be about 7 such stories that contextualise where we are in AI and what is happening.https://www.emergentmind.com/AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplainedCha
The AI News You Might Have Missed This Week - Zuckerberg to Falcon w/ SPQR
From Opensource Falcon on an iPhone to avatars in ChatGPT, and AI chefs to Embodied Chess, Meta announcements and Zuckerberg speculation, here's 7 bits of AI news you might have missed. Embodied Chess: https://twitter.com/newscientist/status/1666821962977669123AI Chef: https://twitter.com/aakashg0/status/1666301809768677376Nala: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciO0zf1OBVsHeygen (in plug-in store):
GPT 4 - hype vs reality
ChatGPT 4 timings, potential, hype, Google and more. https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/04/pathways-language-model-palm-scaling-to.htmlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebjkD1Om4uw Non-Hype, Free Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/
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Gemini 2.5 Pro - It’s a Darn Smart Chatbot … (New Simple High Score)
Gemini gets a new record on Simple Bench, and several other benchmarks. I’ll go deep to explore its nuances, including how it deceptively reverse engineers answers, does better on certain coding benchmarks than others, may have a universal ‘conceptual language’ …https://weave-docs.wandb.ai/?utm_source=sponsorship&utm_medium=simple_bench&utm_campaign=ai_explained… and more. Plus practical tips, a n
An Actually Big Week in AI: AutoGen, The A-Phone, Mistral 7B, GPT-Fathom and Meta Hunts CharacterAI
From dramatic new use cases for GPT Vision, Meta bringing language models to billions of people, Autogen as the new AutoGPT, to what I’m calling the Altman Phone, this is a huge time in AI. I’ll also cover Mistral’s 7B model, the new CIA-bot, Orca potentially replacing OpenAI models at Microsoft, and yesterday’s fascinating GPT-Fathom paper.https://www.metaculus.com/ai/?utm_source=ai_explained&utm
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-explainedAI Insiders ($9!): https://www.p
OpenAI Trained AI Agents, but Did Not Expect the Swarm
First, a Time Magazine spread has Sam Altman declaring AGI is imminent, at the same time as we get two bombshell reports, from OpenAI and METR which on first glance are detailing the AI swarm, but reveal a deeper story about how we are making AI in 2026. From redacted risk reports, to Chinese Labs, pre-training debacles to questionable cybersecurity calls, a lot has happened recently, beneath the
AI Accelerates: New Gemini Model + AI Unemployment Stories Analysed
There’s a new best language model, so let’s go through the up and downs of Gemini 2.5 Pro 06-05. Record-breaking common-sense, but dumb mistakes remain. And it’s not even their best model, which remains behind the scenes - Gemini 2.5 Ultra. Plus Sundar Pichai’s AGI date and an analysis of whether the current AI unemployment headlines are justified, and Elevenlabs v3.https://emergentmind.comAI Insi
What's Behind the ChatGPT History Change? How You Can Benefit + The 6 New Developments This Week
Underneath a simple-sounding tweet about changes to chat history within ChatGPT is a data controversy that could change the near-term future of GPT models. This video will cover not only the new features that you now have access to, it will cover why the announcement was made, ChatGPT Business, the wave of lawsuits and data policy changes underway this week and much more. You will find out ways to
'This Could Go Quite Wrong' - Altman Testimony, GPT 5 Timeline, Self-Awareness, Drones and more
That was the blunt warning of Sam Altman at the start of his illuminating testimony in front of Congress. I picked out all the most interesting parts, from timelines for GPT 5, whether models are self-aware, whether we are training them to lie, what jobs are going and when, and far more.I’ll showcase some of the safety concerns raised at the testimony, and give background from Anthropic and Google
Altman Out: Reasons, Reactions and the Repercussions for the Industry
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"OpenAI is Not God” - The DeepSeek Documentary on Liang Wenfeng, R1 and What's Next
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Bad AI Predictions: Bard Upgrade, 2 Years to AI Auto-Money, OpenAI Investigation and more
Let's examine the developments this week in the world of AI through the lens of predictions made just two years ago. It is hard to contextualise just how crazy the times we are living in without seeing what people thought would be happening now.From the Bard upgrade in vision and spoken language, to Claude 2, Mustafa Suleyman's latest predictions for Inflection AI to xAI reported promises of $200
‘We Must Slow Down the Race’ – X AI, GPT 4 Can Now Do Science and Altman GPT 5 Statement
Starting with the viral FT article 'We must slow down the race to God-like AI' I cover all the week's major developments, and delve deeper into the world of AI alignment. Topics include Musk's new AI company X.AI, a bit of his history with OpenAI, Sam Altman's new comments on GPT 5, and more from the AI Dilemma on whether China will catch up. I also cover two new papers that showcase how GPT 4 can
GPT 4.5 - not so much wow
GPT 4.5 is here, and do you remember when AI lab CEOs like Sam Altman and Dario Amodei were betting everything on scaling up base models like this one? Well let’s find out what would have happened if the future of AI rested on models like GPT 4.5. You’ll see all the benchmarks, highlights of the paper, emotional intelligence and humor tests, Simple Bench results (reddit was an unreliable source),
OpenAI’s New ImageGen is Unexpectedly Epic … (ft. Reve, Imagen 3, Midjourney etc)
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Did you miss these 2 AI stories? A *Real* LLM-crafted Breakthrough + Continual Learning Blocked?
While compute-spend focuses on cash over cleverness, it can seem like the AI IQ plateau will last forever. But here’s a breakthrough for science, led by an LLM. And not even the latest or greatest one! I’ll go over CS2-Scale, then the Definition of AGI paper, a key continual learning quote, and Sora 2 answering Math questions…https://assemblyai.com/aiexplainedAI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon
Is GPT-5.1 Really an Upgrade? But Models Can Auto-Hack Govts, so … there’s that
A lot just got released in the last 36 hours, and it will all affect hundreds of millions of people. 10 details you would miss if you just read the headlines, from GPT 5.1 regressions, to how Claude hacked Govt Agencies, to SIMA 2, and Musical Turing Tests.https://assemblyai.com/aiexplainedChapters:00:00 - Introduction00:56 - GPT 5.1 Smarter?01:47 - Some Regressions03:22 - Sycophancy?05:22 - Claud
Google Gemini: AlphaGo-GPT?
Does Gemini = AlphaGo + GPT? This video showcases everything we know so far about Gemini ['Google's GPT 5'], drawing not only on Demis Hassabis' provocative new Wired Interview, and leaks in The Information, but also deep research into recent papers and talks from those working at Google DeepMind. Let me know what you think of Gemini, both on its potential to upend the race to AGI, its effect on t
Gemini Full Breakdown + AlphaCode 2 Bombshell
Gemini is here! All 60 pages of the technical report read, plus the AlphaCode 2 bombshell paper explained and analysed. Is that paper even more consequential than Gemini? Plus the launch of AI Insiders, Gemini demos, Hassabis hints and much, much more!AI Insiders: https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained/membershipRelease Page: https://deepmind.google/technologies/gemini/#introductionGemini Technical R
Claude AI Co-founder Publishes 4 Big Claims about Near Future: Breakdown
Anthropic's CEO, who has consistently predicted transformative AI will arrive before 2030, recently published a nearly 20,000-word essay outlining his vision of where AI is heading. The video gives you the highlights. The essay argues that scaling and recursion will advance AI from coding automation to full engineering automation, while warning of economic displacement within 1-2 years and China's
o3-mini and the “AI War”
o3-mini is here, and yes, I’ve read the paper in full - 2 hours after release, and even the post-launch Reddit AMA. Some epic details like a FrontierMath score that made me double-take, a likely new Cursor favorite, bio risk expertise and a cost-comparison with Deepseek R1., But does it perform on basic reasoning - let’s find out. Plus, arguably the bigger story - the increasingly frenetic rhetori
Gemini 3.1 Pro and the Downfall of Benchmarks: Welcome to the Vibe Era of AI
Do we have a new best AI model, or do we have the downfall of benchmarks in general, as a way of capturing machine intelligence? Full breakdown of Gemini 3.1 Pro, guest-starring the new Sonnet 4.6, plus analysis from 7 papers/posts that will give you much needed context. Oh, and a new record on Simple Bench!https://epoch.ai/ai-explained-datacentersCheck out my fast-growing (!) app, free to use, an
AI Los Alamos? + New Realistic AI Avatars
From an AI Los Alamos to the first quasi-realistic AI avatar & and from spies at AGI labs to 'AI consciousness' in 2 years, this was a week of underrated revelations and discussions of AI consciousness, regret over ChatGPT’s precipitous release, and more.We’ll see snippets of the debate with George Hotz and Connor Leahy, touching on the three borderline unanswerable questions for our future, and c
'Show Your Working': ChatGPT Performance Doubled w/ Process Rewards (+Synthetic Data Event Horizon)
I have not only read the Let's Verify step by Step paper released less than 24 hours ago, I have combed the release notes and appendix, read most of the linked papers and done my own tests. It's true, performance is massively boosted, and not just for mathematics but science and other domains too. I'll show you comparisons with GPT 3 and PaLM 2, and demonstrate that new records are coming soon.I w
Orca: The Model Few Saw Coming
The first model set to be opensourced that actually comes close to ChatGPT, and is just 13B (that's small enough for a laptop). The 51 page report from Microsoft was released just 48 hours ago but I have gone through it all, and bring relevant insights from 5 other papers.By imitating the logic and explanations of GPT 4 (and using GPT 3.5 as an assistant), as well as by training on diverse tasks a
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GPT 5 Will be Released 'Incrementally' - 5 Points from Brockman Statement [plus Timelines and Safety]
Greg Brockman just revealed the thinking of OpenAI on how best to release GPT 5. He spoke of a 'continuum of better AIs' and I will break it all down in simple terms.With evidence from multiple sources, including the GPT 4 Technical report, I will go over each of the 5 telling points he made on Twitter, and feature external evidence from Ilya Sutskever, the Center for Humane Technology, Emad Mosta
Gemini 3 Pro: Breakdown
Gemini 3 Pro is out, and records fell like snowflakes in Svalbard. No long description, chapters or links today, huge technical difficulties, including with audio, so just want to publish asap.https://app.grayswan.ai/ai-explainedhttps://lmcouncil.aiAI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplainedNon-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzs
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