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AI For Humans: Making Artificial Intelligence Fun & Practical

Kevin Pereira & Gavin Purcellwww.aiforhumans.show
You want to follow the AI space but it's just too much? Welcome to your favorite new show. AI For Humans catches you up on all the AI news, tools & issues. Each week, Kevin Pereira & Gavin Purcell help explain exactly how this ground breaking technology will change our world. Plus, it's fun! Don't take our word for it. Fast Company says "AI For Humans may be the most entertaining way to learn about artificial intelligence". Subscribe now to stay up-to-date on one of today's most important emerging technologies. New episodes every Thursday.

Episodes

Google's Updated Gemini 2.5 Pro May Be Winning the AI Race, OpenAI Delays GPT-5 & More AI News

Google’s AI efforts & Gemini Pro 2.5 take a major step forward with updates to Deep Research, new Agent2Agent protocol (A2A) & more. Sadly, OpenAI teases o3 and o4 but delays GPT-5. Plus, Meta’s new Llama 4 models are out but have issues, Midjourney v7’s debut, John Carmack’s smackdown of an AI video game engine hater, Gavin’s deep dive into OpenAI 4o Image Generation formats & the weirdest robot horse concept you’ve ever seen. WE’RE DEEP RESEARCHING OUR ENTIRE LIVES RIGHT NOW Join the discord: ...

Apr 10, 20251 hr 3 minSeason 1Ep. 106

OpenAI's Servers Meltdown & Raises $40 Billion Dollars, Runway's Amazing New Gen-4 AI Video & More AI News

OpenAI’s servers melted down as it opened up ChatGPT 4o Image Generation to everyone… and then nerfed it hard. Thankfully, their new raise of $40 BILLION DOLLARS will help. We dive deeper into all the cool ways people are using it (and aren’t able to use it any more) along with news about OpenAI Academy & how GPT-4.5 beat the Turing Test. Then Runway Gen-4 is here and it’s VERY good, OmniHuman-1 does AI lip sync right, Meta’s new Hypernova AR glasses are revealed, Anthropic takes on the black bo...

Apr 03, 202553 minSeason 1Ep. 105

OpenAI's New 4o Image Gen Dominates The Internet, Google Gemini 2.5 & More AI News

Kevin and Gavin discuss OpenAI's groundbreaking new 4o ImageGen model, highlighting its ease of use and the cultural phenomenon of 'gibbification'. They compare it to Google's Gemini 2.5, explore new AI voice models, and examine the impact of AI on creative industries like modeling and camera operation. The episode also covers AI-driven gaming concepts and the potential for AI to revolutionize various sectors.

Mar 27, 20251 hr 3 minSeason 1Ep. 104

NVIDIA's Huge AI & Robot Event, Google's NextGen Image Model, AI Video Tools & More Insane AI News

AI runs on NVIDIA and it was never more clear than at this week’s GTC where new AI chips and robots were announced. Plus, Google’s good new AI tools & the best AI Video to date. Plus, dangerous new robots terrify us, insane new AI camera tools, DeepSeek is VERY important to the Chinese gov’t, the hidden dangers of vibe coding and Claude 3.7 Sonnet MAX is already here but not many people know. **GO AND VISIT OUR SPONSOR Y’ALL** bubble.io/aiforhumans Join the discord: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f...

Mar 20, 20251 hr 5 minSeason 1Ep. 103

Anthropic CEO Says AI Will Write All Code, China's Manus AI, New OpenAI Models & More AI News

AGI is coming & Anthropic’s Dario Amoedi says AI will soon write all code but... what happens then? New AI Agent Manus & OpenAI’s Agentic Responses API give us a sneak peak at the future. Plus, Hedra’s Character-3 is VERY good at lip-sync, OpenAI's got a new Creative Writing AI model that's making people mad, Google’s Gemma 3 is a small AI model with big results, multiple new AI-to-video pipelines for creatives, robot are hoverboarding and running marathons and Kevin vibe-coded a special meme-if...

Mar 13, 20251 hr 6 minSeason 1Ep. 102

OpenAI's $20,000 AI Agent, Insane Sesame AI Audio, GPT-4.5 Thoughts & More AI News

OpenAI’s new PhD-level agents might cost 20000 dollars, GPT-4.5 is here and it’s all about the vibes, Sesame’s new real-time AI voice model is insane & SO MANY AI ROBOTS. Plus, why exactly is Apple delaying AI Siri until 2027, an explainer of Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol & why the AI world is obsessed with it, Runway’s new Video-to-Video effects and Kevin vibe-coded a multi-player game of blobs. IT’S A BIG WEEK AND WE’RE JUST VIBE CODING IT. Join the discord: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f ...

Mar 06, 202558 minSeason 1Ep. 101

Amazon's New Alexa AI, OpenAI's GPT 4.5, Claude Sonnet's Coding Power & More AI News

Amazon announces a huge AI-powered upgrade called Alexa+, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.7 is amazing at code, OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 is on the way, & good lord who let Grok 3 Voice out?! We go *very* deep on Claude Sonnet 3.7 as we show all of the very cool stuff that people have made with it so far (including an amazing Pokemon experience), Deepseek’s R2 is on the way and we’ll tell you why, China’s Alibaba also has an amazing new open-source AI video model called Wan2.1 and we show you what happens wh...

Feb 27, 20251 hr 9 minSeason 1Ep. 100

xAI's Grok 3 Just Changed The AI Race, Mircosoft's New AI Gaming Model, Spicy ChatGPT And More AI News

AI NEWS: xAI’s Grok 3 is good. What does that mean for the future of AI? Plus, OpenAI’s spicy update, Convergence’s Free-to-use Proxy AI Agent & Microsoft’s new MUSE AI game engine. Plus, Unitree’s dancing robots vs creeply Clone Robotics, an AI model from Meta that can read your mind, Palmer Lucky dives into the future of AI warfare and pour one out for the death of the Humane AI pin and so much more AI news. WE’RE MOVING FASTER AND FASTER Y’ALL. #ai #ainews #openai Join the discord: https://di...

Feb 20, 202559 minSeason 1Ep. 99

Elon Vs OpenAI, GPT-5 Is Confirmed, New AI Video Models & More AI News

OpenAI fights off Elon Musk while Sam drops info about GPT-5 (it’s coming and it’s free), the leaders of the world discuss AI safety & Apple’s busy making robot lamps… Plus, OpenAI says their next AI model will be one of the world’s best programmers, Zonos is a brand new, open source audio cloning tool, a deep dive into Bytedance’s new Goku+ model which makes realistic AI influencers and we play with Pika’s amazing new Pikadditions platform. AND WE TRY AND FAIL TO MAKE AI EPIC FAILS. Just anothe...

Feb 13, 202557 minSeason 1Ep. 98

OpenAI's Deep Research Gets Closer To AGI, Replit's No-Code AI App, NVIDIA's New Robots & More AI News

OpenAI’s new Deep Research, running on their new o3 model, pushes back against DeepSeek. Is this AGI? NOT YET. But close? Meanwhile, OmniHuman-1 is near perfect AI lip-sync and NVIDIA’s robots are coming for us all! Plus, Replit’s new iPhone app brings no code AI coding to the masses, ChatGPT does the same thing with o3-mini, Kai Cenat’s Unitree Robot experience normalizes humanoid robots and SPECIAL GUEST HOST (YT HANDLE) Theoretically Media joins for the whole show and talks about new free AI ...

Feb 06, 202558 minSeason 1Ep. 97

Deepseek R1 Chaos Updates, OpenAI Speeds Up & More AI News

Deepseek’s R1 model shook OpenAI & now Sam Altman says they’re moving faster. We explain what’s going on, where we go next (AGI anyone?) and how China is a MAJOR AI player now. It’s not only Deepseek, China’s Qwen2.5 Max model is brand new, Chinese AI video tools like Kling & Minimax keep shipping updates. AND they’ve got tentacle robots! YIKES. Meanwhile, Apple’s pretty happy with their position AND we cover some of our favorite AI creators newest work in AI See What You Did There! IT’S GETTING...

Jan 30, 202555 minSeason 1Ep. 96

OpenAI's $500B Stargate Project, Cutting Edge Chinese AI Models & More AI News

AI is speeding up… Is Project Stargate the $500 billion dollar path to AGI? OpenAI seems to think so. Plus, details on Deepseek’s R1 open-source reasoning & more AI news! Anthropic’s Dario Amodei discusses the next few years of AI, OpenAI’s Operator is likely coming this week, Google’s new Gemini model (Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental 01-21) is VERY good, hands on with Hailuo’s Minimax Character Reference tool and an AI that can see five seconds into the future. IT’S GETTING REAL WEIRD FO...

Jan 23, 202557 minSeason 1Ep. 95

OpenAI Plans Super Intelligence, NVIDIA's Tiny Image Model & Reddit Launches GPT & More AI News

OpenAI is prepping for Artificial Super Intelligence, Sam Altman says AI fast takeoff is likely, Luma Labs’ new Ray 2 AI video model looks good and Reddit goes all GPT on us. Plus, an amazing new small AI model from NVIDIA, executive AI orders for more power and chips, ChatGPT Tasks kind of blows and a whole lotta Shrek (more so than you might want). BRB, WE GOTTA PREP FOR THE SINGULARITY Y’ALL! Join the discord: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumans...

Jan 16, 202552 minSeason 1Ep. 94

AGI in 2025? Plus, OpenAI's Agents, NVIDIA's AI World Model & More AI News

AGI is coming in 2025 or at least that’s what OpenAI’s Sam Altman thinks. Plus, huge announcements from NVIDIA at CES & hands on with Google’s VEO 2. AND OpenAI’s Operator (aka their AI Agents) might come soon, DeekSeek V3 is pretty darn good, Meta makes a big mistake with their AI personalities, Minimax’s new subject reference tool, METAGENE-1 might help us stave off disease, and all the robot vaccum news you could ever want. Oh, and Kevin is sick. BUT HE’S GOING TO BE FINE. Join the discord: h...

Jan 09, 202543 minSeason 1Ep. 93

AI Predictions for 2025, Thoughts on OpenAI's o3 & The Year in Review

AI PREDICTIONS are never easy but we give our thoughts on what will happen in 2025 and beyond as well as dive into OpenAI’s o3 announcement and what it means for all of us. Then, we fed all of AI For Humans into Google's NotebookLM and had them take a DeepDive look at how we did over the course of 2024. We did ok ? It’s a quickie AI For Humans episode for the holidays (one day behind schedule) but we’ll see y’all for a normal one next week! IT’S GONNA BE A GOOD YEAR Y’ALL! #ai #ainews #openAI Jo...

Dec 27, 202430 minSeason 1Ep. 92

Google Wins AI Video, ChatGPT Gets a 1-800 Number & More Massive AI News

Google’s VEO 2 and Gemini updates are… freaking good?! Plus, OpenAI lets you call ChatGPT, o1 is in the API now & Nvidia’s Jensen Huang is giving us a new robot brain. Plus, new Pika 2.0 AI video tools, Ilya Sutskever returns to tell us pre-training is over, YouTube and CAA comes together on a deal for protecting celebrity likenesses, Google’s Whisk tool is a fun AI toy and we meet an angry old man who calls us wanting help for his furnace whom we then get to drink Monster Milk. IT’S A NEW SHOW,...

Dec 19, 202444 minSeason 1Ep. 91

ChatGPT For iPhone is Here, OpenAI's Sora Released, Google Gemini 2.0 and more AI News

AI NEWS: OpenAI’s Sam Altman drops Sora, o1 Pro & ChatGPT on our iPhone. What’s next? Plus, Google’s HUGE Gemini update and Genmojis are here from Apple. It is the biggest AI news week we’ve seen in a VERY long time (for real) as OpenAI continues it’s 12 Days of Shipmas with no signs of stopping, plus we have some very cool AI videos and Gavin talks about his hands-on experience with OpenAI’s Sora. IT’S A BIG ONE Y’ALL Join the discord: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Join our Patreon: https://www...

Dec 12, 202452 minSeason 1Ep. 90

OpenAI's 12 Days of AI Surpirse, Breakthrough AI World Models & More AI News

OpenAI’s 12 days of HUGE AI updates to Sora, o1 & maybe even GPT-5, Google’s Genie 2 & World Labs’ AI world models & Amazon announces Nova AI models. Plus, Tencent’s new open-source HunyuanVideo, Kling’s amazing Motion Brush tool, a fan made Batman AI film that’s actually watchable, Spotify Integrates NotebookLM, Eleven Labs brings the voice AI heat, Google’s Gen Chess AND OH SO MUCH MORE. Join the discord: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f AI For Humans Newsletter: https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ ...

Dec 05, 202452 minSeason 1Ep. 89

Three Biggest AI Trends for 2025 & We Answer Your AI Questions

AI Agents, Inference Compute like OpenAI’s o1 and the maturation of the AI Video & AI Audio space (Runway, Sora & oh so much more-ah) are the three biggest trends coming for 2025 and we walk you through them all. Then, we answer a ton of your questions about AI in a not-at-all-boring way in this very special (and taped *slightly* ahead of time) episode of AI For Humans. Plus, the return of a very special AI Co-Host. That’s right, it’s GASH! Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! Join the discord: https://...

Nov 27, 202442 minSeason 1Ep. 88

New AI Studios in Hollywood, DeepSeek's AI Reasoning Model, Perplexity Disrupts Shopping & More AI News

AI News: Deepseek’s AI reasoning model takes on OpenAI’s o1, Perplexity takes on shopping and new AI studio Promise & *checks notes* Ben Affleck take on traditional Hollywood? It’s a deep dive on AI vs Hollywood as we also talk about the controversial AI Coca-Cola commercial & how media jobs are being shed at record numbers. Plus, Gemini’s new voice mode, AI’s Manhattan Project, Kevin gives us a look at a free AI upscaler called Clarity Refiners, Gavin spends more time with Suno V4, new robots, ...

Nov 21, 202452 min

OpenAI & Google Struggle on Model Training, Suno's New AI Music Model & More AI News

AI NEWS: OpenAI, Google & other AI companies face potential struggles to advance their frontier AI models like Orion, but Anthropic's CEO still predicts AGI by 2027. What gives? We discuss the growing fear that AI scaling has peaked and what’s causing the slowdown. Meanwhile, Apple makes strides in AI tech, we got our hands on Suno V4 which is *great* and China’s Deep Robotics showcases an off-road robot that scared the pants off us. Plus, NVIDIA’s new robotic advancements and Xpeng's humanoid r...

Nov 14, 202447 minSeason 1Ep. 86

Sam Altman's AI Optimism, New Presidential AI Policy & Defense, Endless AI Video Games & More AI News

AI News: OpenAI’s Sam Altman says AI is accelerating to AGI and NVIDIA is the world’s most valuable company just as other billionaires say we’re slowing down. What gives? Plus, the US election shakes up the world of open-source AI as Meta’s LLAMA model is being used both by other governments and our own for defense purposes. Plus, the Oasis generative AI video game making people mad, a bunch of AI Video updates & we check in with AI Guy Fieri who’s mad now that AI Gordo Ramsay has taken over for...

Nov 07, 202440 minSeason 1Ep. 85

OpenAI Says AGI Not Far Off, Apple Intelligence is Just OK, Meta AI Search & More AI News

AI News: OpenAI says AGI is incoming… James Cameron says that might not be good, even though OAI is building new chips AND has a new frontier model (GPT-5) on the way. Plus, Apple Intelligence is here and it’s just ok, Meta is taking on Google Search, Mircosoft’s Github takes on Cursor with Spark that can write code, Red Panda is a mysterious new AI image model, MuVi brings automatic soundtracks to video using AI & we’re visited by the future ghost of Robert Downey, Jr who has something to say a...

Oct 31, 202450 min

Anthropic's New AI Agent, OpenAI Plays Catch-up, Runway's Act-One & More AI News

AI NEWS: Agents are here from Anthropic with Computer Use in Claude Sonnet 3.5 (new) and likely coming from OpenAI, O1 keeps getting better and might get upgraded soon, Runway's New Act One let's you puppet AI video, Ideogram's new Canvas upgrades AI imaging, Unitree's Robots are getting WAY better and we show you how to make Google's NotebookLM uncensored. AND OH SO MUCH MORE. It's a big, massive week of AI news. And we are here, for you. Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansSho...

Oct 24, 202450 minSeason 1Ep. 83

Massive AI Update From Adobe, Tech Companies Go Nuclear & ChatGPT Knows Too Much

Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI News: Adobe’s Max 2024 showed off a ton of new AI tools like Generative Extend and Project Clean Machine, Amazon and Google are going nuclear (in a good way), rumors swirl around Claude Open 3.5, Nvidia has a great new LLM model that beats GPT-4o & Meta’s new Co-Tracker3 looks amazing. Plus updates from Suno, a hit Instagram restaurant that’s all AI and ChatGPT knows SO much about you. IT’S ANOTHER FUN ONE IN PERSON DOG. Join the disco...

Oct 17, 202444 minSeason 1Ep. 82

Nobel Prizes For AI Scientists, OpenAI's New Canvas Tool & Huge AI Video Updates

Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI News: AI Scientists Geoffrey Hinton & Google DeepMind’s Demmis Hassabis each won Nobel Prizes this week for their AI work, OpenAI is kinda mad at Microsoft for not meeting demand for new servers and launched ChatGPT Canvas, Tesla’s We Robot event will unveil new Robotaxis, Meta MovieGen shows off incredible-yet-unreleased AI video tools and Minimax drops an text-to-image update that kind of blew us away. PLUS, AI MINION MAKER Y’ALL. Jo...

Oct 10, 202447 minSeason 1Ep. 81

OpenAI Is Worth $150B Now, NotebookLM Takes Over & More AI News

Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI News: OpenAI’s got 6 BILLION dollars in new funding and showed off a bunch of AI tools for builders at DemoDay and even teased AI agents, Microsoft’s Copilot launched Voice, Vision & Think Deeper, Pika Labs’ new 1.5 model lets you melt, squish and inflate yourself, a big AI safety bill was vetoed in California & Google’s NotebookLM is the gift that keeps on giving. IT WAS SO MUCH NEWS Y’ALL. Join the discord: https://discord.gg/muD2TYg...

Oct 03, 202441 minSeason 1Ep. 80

Next Gen AI Is Here: Meta Connect, OpenAI Advanced Voice & More

Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI News: Meta unveiled Orion, its new AR headset, along with a multimodal Llama 3.2, updates to it’s AI Raybans and a bunch of AI tools at Meta Connect 2024, OpenAI’s Advanced Voice is here for everyone, a new version of Sora is in training, Sam Altman says we’re only a few thousand days away from Super Intelligence, Google updated Gemini 1.5 and James Cameron is now fully within the AI fold. IT’S A BIG WEEK (and we didn’t even get into t...

Sep 26, 202450 minSeason 1Ep. 79

Major Hollywood Studio AI, OpenAI's New Model Gets Better & More AI News

Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI NEWS: Runway has teamed up with Lionsgate to create the world’s first major studio AI model, OpenAI’s o1-preview and o1-mini are VERY good and you get a lot more of them, Suno’s new AI covers tool is amazing, 1x’s Robotics World Simulation show us the future & NotebookLM’s new podcast creation tool just got a lil more Guy Fieri. AI For Humans Newsletter: https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Join the discord: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f /...

Sep 19, 202442 minSeason 1Ep. 78

OpenAI’s Strawberry Two Weeks Out... But What Is it? Plus, More AI News!

Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Breaking AI News: OpenAI’s Strawberry is only two weeks away & we still don’t know exactly what it is. Is there a newer model coming? Plus, Adobe’s new Firefly AI video model looks good, Replit is a cool full pipeline for AI coding, an AI prediction engine and Oprah is taking on AI. Yes, that Oprah. All that plus a look at a cool new AI lip reading AI, MiniMax can show human emotions very we...

Sep 12, 202436 minSeason 1Ep. 77