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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, play games, roleplay movies and shows and much more. If you learn anything from these bleeding edge deployments of the likely GPT4 LLM that powers Bing, do let me know in the comments or drop a like.
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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…

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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…

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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 La...

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.

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Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
01:03 - GPT 5.6 Sol Reveals
05:08 - Missing benches, plus Grok 4.5
07:17 - Gaming as the...

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.


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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…

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Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
01:15 - Gemini 2.5 Benchmarks
05:46 - Long Context, Simple indication
07:08 - New Deepseek V3 -024
09:11 - Microsoft MAI
11:48 - 90% of code but new Claude jobs

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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 millions enquire about Manus AI.

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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.

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Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
00:55 - Better than Human @ Professional Tasks?
04:42 - Test time Compute
07:05 - Benchmark Selection
09:32 - Simple Results + council comparison
13:01 - Long Context
13:52 - Self-Improvement
15:00 - 10 Years + New Models

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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), TinyStories, and more, to give context to the results and end with what I think timelines might be and how public messaging could be targeted.<...

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 might call them prompt hacks, but I prefer to think of them as simply creative exploration of Bing's capacities.

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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:

- The benchmark results vs other open-source models and GPT 3.5 and GPT 4.
- The decision to release in the face of the US Senate
- Why Zuckerberg opensourced Llama 2, including the Mistral AI...

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…

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Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
01:17 - HuggingFace Earlier Report - the possible week gap
02:24 - But what happened?
05:45 - Simplified Version
07:56 - Not the first time…
10:54 - What Does it M...

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.

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Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
00:27 - AlphaEvolve
05:23 - Limitation
06:10 - Achievements
08:21 - Future Improvements
13:30 - Quirks
16:34 - Final Thoughts

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-520a3a8c
Altman Tweet: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1727207458324848883
Emily Chang: https://twitter.com/emilychangtv/status/1727228431396704557
OpenAI Charter: https://openai.com/our-structure
Geoffrey Irving Post: https://twitter.com/geoffreyirving/status/1726754270224023971
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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


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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!

Whether you are a professional looking to transform your data analytics, an observer concerned about GPT X escaping from an island (!), a student looking to do a heatmap, venn diagram or radial bar plot, this...

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 about everything from cutting edge benchmarking to AGI forecasting.

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Original SmartGPT Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVzuvf9D9BU...

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…

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Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
00:50 - Results
02:44 - But… the Flaw
04:49 - So Benchmarks are fake? No
07:37 - Spatial Reasoning + Hassabis
10:06 - Proto-AGI
12:07 - Minimal AGI
15:07 - Compute Slowdown
17:56 - New Data Paradigm

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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 otherwise) will beat ChatGPT.

I'll show you how unreleased models already beat current ChatGPT and all of this will actually give a clearer insight into what even GPT5 and rival models from...

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?

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Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
01:20 - What prompts blackmail?
02:44 - Blackmail walkthrough
06:04 - ‘American interests’
08:00 - Inherent desire?
10:45 - Switching Goals
11:35 - Murder
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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 72 hours, like Automatically Discovered Chain of Thought, which beats even 'Let's think Step by Step' and the approach that combines it all.

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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.

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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 so...

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…

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Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
01:16 - 10 Autonomous Discoveries
08:20 - The Security ‘Incident’
15:29 - MessageBoard
19:50 - Constitutional Failure
24:30 - Google Explosion
29:12 - Closing Thoughts

Security Incide...

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 down on bad logic, this video showcases GPT getting irrational.


Inverse Scaling Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.09479.pdf
Theory of Mind Perturbations: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.08399.pdf
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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.

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GAIA-1 9B: https://wayve.ai/thinking/scaling-gaia-1/
GAIA 1 Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.17080
Semianalysis Tesla: https://www.semianalysis.com/p/tesla-ai-capacity-expansion-h100 and B100 plus X1...

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.

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Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
00:34 - Reasoning Models … and limits
02:54 - A playable world
03:36 - Realism
03:50 - AI Slop gone mainstream
05:03 - DolphinG...

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?

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00:00 - Introduction
01:12 - Claude Cowork
07:36 - Productivity Speed-up + jobs
10:19 - Comparing Models
12:46 - Brittle AI Paper

Cowork...

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, Situational Awareness and much more!

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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 SmartGPT-like techniques to boost performance. Crazily enough, PaLM 2 beats even Google Translate, due in large part to the text it was trained on. We'll talk coding...

ChatGPT 4 timings, potential, hype, Google and more.

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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.

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00:00 - Introduction
00:55 - OpenAI Report Summary
02:40 - Tipping Point Speed-up
04:11 - Better than Industry Experts?
06:33 - Big Cave...

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 Deepmind. The Senate asked a few interesting questions, and phrased them in strange ways, and I’ll cover that too. Palantir and their drone LLM will appear, as w...

What caused the face of ChatGPT and OpenAI to be fired in a 15-minute Meets call? This video, a one-off from my normal videos, goes into the background, possible reasons, reactions and more importantly, the repercussions for the industry. This is everything I could find on what went down.

Brockman Tweets: https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1725736242137182594
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OpenAI Blog: https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition
Enigmatic Comment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFFvqRemDv8
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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.

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Gates Interview: https://www.handelsblatt.com/technik/ki/bill-gates-mit-ki-koennen-medikamente-viel-schneller-entwickelt-werden/29450298.html
Dwarkesh Interview Legg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc1atfJkiJU
Dwarkesh Interview Christiano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AAhTLa0dT0
Representation Engineering: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.01405...

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/1666821962977669123
AI Chef: https://twitter.com/aakashg0/status/1666301809768677376
Nala: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciO0zf1OBVs
Heygen (in plug-in store): https://www.heygen.com/
Opensource SPQR: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.03078.pdf
Runway Gen 2: https://research.runwayml.com/gen2
Runway Demo: https://twitter.com/AlphaSignalAI/status/1667218274860318745
Meta Plans: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/technology...

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 headlines…

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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 check if your data has been used to train the models, learn more about the secret ‘Pile’ and ‘Common Crawl’ that may be behind GPT 4 and discover some of the p...

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 million to those leaving DeepMind and OpenAI, this brief video tries to cover a lot. And not to forget the FTC's exhaustive investigation OpenAI and Sam Altman's response on twitter.<...

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), and why it’s not all bad news for OpenAI.

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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…

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Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
00:55 - C2S
04:48 - OpenAI not too far behind (Simple, Codex)
06:37 - A Definition of AGI?
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