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AI Explained
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Covering the biggest news of the century - the arrival of smarter-than-human AI. The author of Simple Bench, exposing the remaining human-LLM reasoning gap. Solo Developer of LM Council: https://lmcouncil.ai - Code - INSIDER15 Join me at AI Insiders, with exclusive videos and a 1000+ network of AI enthusiasts and professionals: https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Links: AI Insiders: Code - INSIDER15: https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained My AI Council App: https://lmcouncil.ai Simple Bench: https://simple-bench.com/ Podcast (New!): https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/ Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ X: <a href="h
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GPT 5.5 Arrives, DeepSeek V4 Drops, and the Compute War Intensifies
GPT 5.5 full analysis, plus DeepSeek V4 paper highlights, comparisons with Mythos, a vibe-coded game w/ GPT Image 2, and 50 data-points you wouldn’t get from just reading the headlines.https://80000hours.org/aiexplainedCheck out my fast-growing (!) app, free to use, and code INSIDER15 for paid...
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'Sparks of AGI' - Bombshell GPT-4 Paper: Fully Read w/ 15 Revelations
Less than 24 hours ago a paper was released that will echo around the world. I read all 154 pages in one sitting. The paper suggests GPT 4 has ‘sparks of Artificial General Intelligence’. This is not just hype, I go through 15 examples detailing just what exactly the unrestrained GPT 4 is capable...
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What's Up With Bard? 9 Examples + 6 Reasons Google Fell Behind [ft. Muse, Med-PaLM 2 and more]
A definitive comparison between Bard and GPT-4 - and it doesn’t look good for Bard. I demonstrate, with nine different examples, that Bard has a serious problem. From coding to content creation, summarisation to self-tutoring, I cover all the deficiencies that will stop Bard being currently…
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o3 - wow
o3 isn’t one of the biggest developments in AI for 2+ years because it beats a particular benchmark. It is so because it demonstrates a reusable technique through which almost any benchmark could fall, and at short notice. I’ll cover all the highlights, benchmarks broken, and what comes next.…
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11 Major AI Developments: RT-2 to '100X GPT-4'
There were 11 major developments in AI in just this week, from RT-2 – a significant step on the path to robotic AGI – to ‘100x GPT 4 in 18 months’, and from the uplifting news of TranscribeGlass and AI Barbie-heimer to dramatic revelations about OpenAI in the Atlantic. We’ll also glimpse Stable...
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Two Rival Bets on AGI: Google I/O Highlights
The biggest Google AI push of the year, but what is the bigger story? Why is Google pursuing a different fork in the road than OpenAI or Anthropic? https://assemblyai.com/aiexplainedWhat does Gemini 3.5 Flash mean for the near-term future of AI? Plus the highlights from a provocative new paper on...
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Google Bard - The Full Review. Bard vs Bing [LaMDA vs GPT 4]
Bard has arrived! This is the first full review, testing out its maximum capacities, with a direct comparison with GPT 4, which powers Bing. You will find out about Bard's surprising weaknesses and unexpected strengths. I also won't shy away from areas that both do well in, or do badly in. Among...
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New Claude Opus 4.8: 15 Things You May’ve Missed
The ‘best’ generally available AI model just dropped, but there is plenty I bet you missed about what it is, how it performs, and what the release tells us. 15 highlights from the 244 page system card, plus private testing, leader interview and more.AI Insiders ($9!):...
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GPT 4: 9 Revelations (not covered elsewhere)
This video will give nine more insights from the bombshell GPT 4 Technical Report. It is the companion video to the '14 Crazy Details' released the day before. In this video, I will cover:Tests on how to 'shut down' the model in the wild, and how that might go wrong. Sam Altman requesting more...
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Claude 3.7 is More Significant than its Name Implies (ft DeepSeek R2 + GPT 4.5 coming soon)
Claude 3.7 is here, hot on the heels of Grok 3 and a host of other developments, but how good is it really? And what does it say about the next few months in AI? I’ve read the papers, played with the model for hours, and benched it on Simple. Things aren’t slowing down. Plus the latest in…
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Google Takes No Prisoners Amid Torrent of AI Announcements
Google just announced at least 12 things that are each worthy of a video, but here are the top I/O highlights. From Veo 3 to Deep Research now being useable, Deep Think breaking records to Gemini Diffusion, Gemini 2.5 Flash changing how AI is priced and GemmaVerse, SynthID Detector and Imagen 4....
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Claude Fable 5 - Full 319 page Breakdown
Fable 5 is out - and it’s good, very good. But beyond the splashy demos, I want to bring you the 20+ nuggets from the 319 page system card, which I read in full, all day, plus benchmarks you may not have noticed. https://assemblyai.com/aiexplainedPlus two worrying trends inside the ‘mind’ of...
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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:...
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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...
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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...
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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…
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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…
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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...
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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 -...
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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:...
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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....
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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...
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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…
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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…
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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...
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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...
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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...
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AI On An Exponential? Data, Mamba, and More
From the crazy potential of data quality, the dramatic possibilities of new architectures like Mamba (summarised here in around 5 minutes!), hybrid architectures, prompt optimisation and more. And regardless of all of that, photo-realism is coming to video. I'll also explore a 100 year old...
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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...
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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...
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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…
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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…
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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 -...
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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...
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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…
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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…
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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...
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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.…
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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 -...
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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...
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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...
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Covering the biggest news of the century - the arrival of smarter-than-human AI. The author of Simple Bench, exposing the remaining human-LLM reasoning gap.
Solo Developer of LM Council: https://lmcouncil.ai - Code - INSIDER15
Join me at AI Insiders, with exclusive videos and a 1000+ network of AI enthusiasts and professionals: https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained
Links: AI Insiders: Code - INSIDER15: https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained My AI Council App: https://lmcouncil.ai Simple Bench: https://simple-bench.com/ Podcast (New!): https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/ Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ X: <a href="h
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