AI Explained

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...

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 Consciousness Report.

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Code Llama Release Notes: https://ai.meta.com/blog/code-llama-large-language-model-coding/
Code Llama Paper: https://scontent.ftlv6-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t3...

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...

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’ …

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… and more. Plus practical tips, a note on security and Kling vs Veo 2 guest appearance.


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Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
00:36 - Fiction Bench
02:41 - Practicality - YouTube ur...

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...

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The DeepSeek documentary revealing just how much the world got wrong about R1, what motivates the man behind the company, and what's next. Do we already have hints about what will be in DeepSeek R2?

Incredible Editing: Hassan Iq.

Sources:
Liang Wenfeng 2023 Interview: https://web.archive.org/web/20241228030725/https://www.chinatalk.media/p/deepseek-from-hedge-fund-to-frontier

Liang Wenfeng 2024 Interview: https://web.archive.org/web/20241227111244/https://www.chinatalk.media/p/deepseek-ceo-interview-with-chinas

OpenAI Quote: https://cdn.openai.com/global-affairs/ostp-rfi/ec680b75-d539-4653-b297...

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.<...

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 be used to conduct bio-chemical scientific protocols and how this could be used and misused. I bring in Rob Miles to explain...

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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I’ve spent quite a while testing the new 4o ImageGen from OpenAI, and comparing it to models released just yesterday, like Reve, Midjourney, Imagen 3, as well as models not yet out.

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Rarely in AI is one model so much better than the rest, as we can see on the chatbot-side of things. Yes, I have a video imminent on Gemini 2.5 and DeepSeek. But for ImageGen, I was very impressed, as you’ll see. Still not perfect, don’t show it a mirr...

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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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.

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Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
00:56 - GPT 5.1 Smarter?
01:47 - Some Regressions
03:22 - Sycophancy?
05:22 - Claude Auto-Hacking
06:16 - Jailbreaking through Granularity
08:22 - This Will be Re-used
09:30 - Hallucinating Hacker
09:57 - Surprisingly Neutral Tone
12:18 - SIMA 2
14:10 - Alpha Parallels
17:24...

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 timelines, whether it will utilise a Tree of Thoughts approach, draw on YouTube, and its safety implications in terms of planning. I will also cover Hogarth's Foundation Model Taskforce...

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 trajectory toward AI-enabled totalitarianism. Additionally, Dario Amodei predicts that AI models will increasingly be understood as collections of distinct personas rather than monolithic systems.

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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!

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00:00 - Introduction
00:30 - Post-training Dominance<...

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 cover an insight from Jan Leike, head of alignment at OpenAI, who did a 3 hour interview with 80,000 hours.
I’ll also showcase Palantir’s plans for an AI arms race, and how...

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 will also cover the 'synthetic data event horizon' and what might have gone into GPT 4's training. I'll show you how PRM works vs ORM, and why...

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 and an order of magnitude more examples, we have Orca. I will showcase it on a dozen benchmarks and go through in detail how it works and why. <...

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 Mostaque, the Guardian and more.

To learn more about capability improvements, do check out my previous GPT 5 video.

My First GPT 5 Video: https://www.youtube...

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.


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The 9 new AI developments that I genuinely feel will be the most impactful, from insane video dubbing and translation to Apple Ajax and Google Gemini leaks, Roblox AI to an Open Interpreter Demo.

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HeyGen Avatar 2.0 Video Translate: https://labs.heygen.com/video-translate
Altman Original Testimony: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OXaTpBZGlSo
Open Interpreter: https://twitter.com/hellokillian/status/1699156860073640038
https://openinterpreter.com/
Sam Altman Interview This Week, Norges Bank: https://www.youtube...

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.

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Will Anthropic be forced to make a version of Claude for war? And does a new paper expose the risks of Claude agents, in both OpenClaw and the field of war? Plus, 5 more twists in the story of the Pentagon versus Anthropic + some AI lab employees, and a petition that could change everything, or nothing...


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Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
00:44 - Deadline Day + Petition
02:42 - Twist 1: Existing...

The leaders of almost all of the world's top AGI Labs have united to put out a statement on AI Extinction Risk, and how mitigating it should be a global priority. This video covers not just the statement and the signatories, including names as diverse as Geoffrey Hinton, Ilya Sutskever, Sam Harris and Lex Fridman, but also goes deeper into the 8 Examples of AI Risk outlined at the same time by the Center for AI Safety.

Top academics from China join in, while Meta demurs, claiming autoregressive LLMs will 'never be given agency'. I briefly cover the...

Can GPT 4 Prompt itself? Give it a mission and it will come up with the prompts. This video showcases the rise of autonomous AI, including 5 major developments in the last 48 hours.

Starting with the OG Auto-GPT, we see how it quickly gain text-to-speech, coding and more. Karpathy weighs in and then we see how you can now create an app with just your voice, with a Jarvis demo and another route via Imagica.AI.

I then showcase MemoryGPT, a brand new model that can permanently store previous conversations and remembers topics the next time you...

Are these some clues to the Q* (Q star) mystery? Featuring barely noticed references, YouTube videos, article exclusives and more, I put together a theory about OpenAI’s apparent breakthrough. Join me for the journey and let me know what you think at the end.

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Nano Banana Pro is no incremental upgrade. From double exposures to almost (!) perfect infographics, comic strips, to pricing, benchmarks and more, I go through 10 facets of the new, model you won’t get just from reading the headlines. Definitely worth watching before you use it for work…

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Just 48 hours after releasing GPT 5.3 Instant, OpenAI have released GPT 5.4 Thinking, so either their is an imminent singularity or perhaps we are being distracted from other news. This video will give 9 crucial bits of context, not just on the GPT 5.4 drop but on the background to the meltdown between the Pentagon and Anthropic. What does this say about the state of AI progress, your job, and what is next.


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A new AI Explained Custom GPT? What has the world come to. Well, let's find out, as we're gonna dive into everything from context window performance, Grok AI, Olympus, Gauss, Vision and TTS API use cases, the crazy new Runway Gen 2 update, the 1st AI Machine, and a fascinating new AGI tier list (with some questionable claims) from Google DeepMind. Plus, we'll start to investigate whether GPT-4 Turbo is actually smarter...

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Dev Day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9mJuUkhUzk&t=1138s
Runway gen 2 Update: https://twitter.com...

Code Interpreter could be the ultimate plug-in, and you judge for yourself by the end of these 12 examples. If you didn't have to re-evaluate after my previous 23 use cases, try these!

From scanning 340k word books (Anna Karenina), to correlating multiple files simultaneously, from ASCII Art to advanced mathematics, and from spotting a data error in a massive spreadsheet to outputting pdfs and powerpoints, GPT 4 has been given a lot of work by me these last few days. See for yourself, and suggest more plug in experiments to be run!

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Sam Altman predicted this week that OpenAI could capture up to $100 trillion of the world's wealth. But what are his plans for OpenAI to distribute that wealth? I analyse all three plans, cover his financial stake, his case for UBI, a science org and the American Equity Fund.

From papers and interviews released in recent days, I go over his predictions for massive inequality, which jobs will be impacted most, what tasks OpenAI thinks will be automated, recent surveys of business leaders and their plans to use ChatGPT for job replacement, the Goldman Sachs job analysis and...

First look at exclusive reports about OpenAI's new Spud model, and the model Anthropic think will stir governments to urgency, all in the context of the newly-launched ARC-AGI-3. What does the extreme difficulty of that benchmarks, and its quirky scoring metrics, mean for AI in 2026?

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Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
00:55 - OpenAI Side Quests
01:58 - Claude New Model Coming + Universal...

This video will not only cover the letter and the signatories, it will showcase the research behind it, and what the top people at OpenAI think in response. Using over 20 different research papers, articles and interviews I go through the most interesting parts of the discussion on AI safety and the prospects ahead.

Featuring Ilya Sutskever's thoughts on alignment, Sam Altman's blog musings, Max Tegmark's proposals, Bostrum and his Superintelligence quote, a top Google Bard worker on whether it is possible, Emad Mostaque and his thoughts, as well as DeepMind and Demis Hassabis. The six month moratorium...

Not only did I get early access and ran my own tests, as per the title I read both the 120 page Claude 4 Opus and Claude 4 Sonnet System Card, and 25 page report on ASL-3 being triggered, plus the 2 hour launch video, and surrounding coverage. Ft. coding tests, Simple, twitter controversies, deep alignment coverage, spiritual bliss and much more!

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Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
01:12 - 3 Quick Controversies
02:42 - Benchmark Results
04:20 - 120 page Card 20 Highlights
10:07 - Coding Test
11:27 - Model Welfare...

The new Bard is actually useful, even if you look past the hype. I'll show you why, and cover how you can make the AI images that are going crazy viral. It's genuinely fun, and surprisingly customisable. If that wasn't enough, you'll learn about GPT 5 red-teaming, HeyGen translations, Alpha Missense, and much more!

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Bard Extension Tweet: https://twitter.com/JackK...

A huge new insider report on GPT Vision is released by Microsoft and just in the last few hours the RT-X series is dropped by Google in Robotics. I will not only break down the 160+ page report on what GPT-4V can do and what it can't, including new use cases, prompting techniques and failure modes, I'll also go through the full RT-2-X and RT-1-X demo, which I am calling the GPT2 moment for robotics. Plus its huge new opensource Open X-Embodiment dataset.

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RT-X Series: Paper: https://storage...

The model, the mythos, the legend. We have a new best AI model, but not all of us. How good is it, what does it’s new offensive capabilities mean? Why does it’s 244 page report card remind me of Her, and why did the creator of Claude Code call it ‘terrifying’. 30+ highlights sourced by reading the paper in full, old-school, no AI summary.

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This video will not only cover the highlights of a new 163 page report on the state of AI in 2023, it will dive into major breakthroughs in just the last week, from Eureka, which documents self-improvement via GPT 4 feedback, to MEG for real-time brain scans, Suno AI for all your AI meme needs, and even mathematical theorem proving. Let me know what you think!

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A green card, o3 vs Gemini 2.5, 6 Benchmarks and a whole bunch of my thoughts on what on earth is happening in AI, from here to 2030. Plus, how AI is becoming pay-to-win, and why. Crazy times, 14 mins probably wasn’t enough.

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Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
00:33 - FictionLiveBench
01:37 - PHYBench
02:14 - SimpleBench
02:54 - Virology Capabilities Test
03:13 - Mathematics Performance
04:29 - Vision Benchmarks
05:43 - V* and how o3 works
06:44 - Revenue and costs for you
08:54...