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So Chris, this week we finally give our GPT-5.5 impressions (it's actually great), introduce our new AI co-host Moshi (who immediately embarrasses himself), argue about whether the OpenAI/Jony Ive phone is genius or doomed, witness Grok 4.3's unhinged infinite emoji meltdown, declare Opus 4.7 the first-ever Anthropic regression, get excited about GPT Real-Time Voice 2.0 as the future of agentic workflows, debate whether token prices will ever come down, and play the worst diss track in show history. Watch my spud.

CHAPTERS:

0:00 - Intro & Introducing Our New AI Co-Host Moshi
1:39 - Trying to Break Moshi: The Illegal Cigarette Trade Test
2:30 - OpenAI's Jony Ive Phone: Do We Need a Device?
5:07 - Telegram Agents & GPT Real-Time Voice 2.0 Dream
7:38 - The Supervisory Agent: Managing Your Agentic Workflow
9:05 - Wait... Are We Accidentally Validating the OpenAI Phone?
11:37 - GPT-5.5 First Impressions: Actually Really Good
14:36 - 5.5 vs Opus 4.6: Different Strengths
17:00 - Opus 4.7: The First-Ever Anthropic Regression
20:25 - Grok 4.3: Infinite Emojis & Absolute Chaos
21:22 - 🎵 DISS TRACK: "Watch My Spud"
24:24 - Grok Specs & All Models Deprecated in 18 Days
27:04 - Grok Voice in Tesla Is Actually Next Level
31:03 - Token Pricing: The Subscription Problem Nobody Can Solve
39:16 - AI Disruption Cycles & The State of the Industry
44:39 - BONUS TRACK:🎵 "It's Hard Being Me"

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So Chris, this week... a LOT has happened. We're back to regular programming (maybe), and back with our average takes. Nothing's changed.

GPT-5.5 just dropped today - but you can't even use it in the API. Vaporware? OpenAI is charging MORE than Opus 4.7 and we haven't even tested it yet. Meanwhile Claude Opus 4.7 landed a couple weeks ago and... the vibes are off? Mike's actually going BACK to 4.6. Something's wrong.

But the real star: OpenAI Image 2. This thing is genuinely terrifying. We committed what can only be described as "parody fraud" - faking a council letter so realistic Mike's own mother fell for it on a phone call. Then Chris posted a fake development approval with the mayor's real name into a local Facebook group and had to delete it when someone tagged the actual mayor. The forgery capabilities are absolutely unhinged.

Also: GLM 5.1 is so good Mike forgot he switched to it. Kimi K 2.6 is criminally underrated. VCs are paying 70% of your real token costs. Consumers pay only 5.5% of actual cost. The everything app war is ON. The SaaS-pocalypse is real. And we made two new diss tracks.

Chris made a graffiti sign in LA. It says "This Day in AI." It was the best artwork in the class. That tells you everything.

CHAPTERS:

0:00 - Intro & We're Back (Don't Over-Commit)
1:14 - Overview: Everything That Dropped While We Were Gone
2:56 - GPT-5.5: Vaporware? Not Even in the API
4:57 - Benchmarks vs Reality: Nobody's Excited About OpenAI Models
5:50 - GLM 5.1 & Kimi K 2.6: Secretly Just As Good?
8:15 - The Everything App Race & Product Layer War
8:56 - Token Economics: You're Only Paying 5.5% of Real Cost
13:08 - We Burned $1.5M in Cloud Credits in 2 Months
16:13 - "$30/Month Is Too Expensive" (It Actually Costs $700)
19:25 - Where Is Google?? TPUs Should Flatten Everyone
22:01 - Agentic Tasks Are 10-50x More Expensive Than Chat
25:07 - OpenAI Workspace Agents: Glorified Zapier?
27:01 - Single Agent vs Multi-Agent: How Do You Actually Work?
33:06 - Building Automation Is HARD (Our Support Shame)
35:33 - OpenAI Image 2: The Fraud Episode Begins
44:16 - FRAUD DEMO: The Fake Council Letter (Mum Falls For It)
49:16 - FRAUD DEMO 2: Chris Posts Fake Mayor Letter on Facebook
52:17 - Fake Receipts, Bank Statements & Can Forgeries Be Detected?
57:25 - Claude Opus 4.7: The Vibes Are Off
59:51 - Mythos Preview: "Pics or It Didn't Happen"
1:01:56 - 🎵 DISS TRACK: "Point 7" (Opus Destroys Everyone)
1:03:30 - Kimi K 2.6 Deep Dive & 🎵 New Diss Track
1:08:34 - The Everything App War & SaaS-pocalypse
1:13:51 - Death of Per-Seat Pricing & Agent Security
1:22:37 - Final Thoughts: The Time for Pretending Is Over
1:28:22 - 🎵 Full Tracks: " Point 7" & "Kimi You're So Fine 2.6"

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So Chris, this week... we've been having way too much fun with the AI again. OpenAI just dropped GPT-5.4 and 5.4 Pro, and holy shit - we finally have a ball game. This might be the first OpenAI model that genuinely competes with Opus 4.6 for agentic work.

But here's where it gets wild: we rebuilt Trello AND Microsoft Teams from scratch using single prompts. Not mockups. Fully deployed, working apps with authentication, video chat, the works. You can literally sign up and use them right now.

Plus: We roast Gemini 3.1 (it's a disgrace for agentic workflows), break down the insane $30/$180 per million pricing on 5.4 Pro (who is this for??), and discuss why every $99/month SaaS tool might be about to die. Chris declares his programming skills "useless" and honestly... he might be right.

We also demo our actual workflow - running 5 agent tabs simultaneously, delegating everything, and why we barely visit websites anymore. The AI workspace IS the operating system now.

CHAPTERS:

0:00 - Intro & Housekeeping (We Screwed Up the Link)
1:26 - GPT-5.4 First Impressions & Specs
3:12 - Chris's Testing: 40 Minutes to Solve a Problem
4:51 - Knowledge Work Improvements (Catching Up to Anthropic)
6:38 - Computer Use vs Browser/Terminal Debate
8:07 - Why We Don't Need Computer Use Anymore
9:53 - Teaser: We Built Full SaaS Apps Today
11:19 - Tool Search API & Skills Integration
13:20 - The Speed Problem (It's a Plodder)
15:12 - GPT-5.4 Pro Pricing Reaction ($30/$180 WTF)
18:14 - Someone Rebuilt Minecraft in 24 Minutes
19:46 - Gemini 3.1 Roast: "It's a Disgrace"
22:36 - DEMO: Trallo (Full Trello Clone)
29:03 - DEMO: Macrosoft Teams (Working Video Chat!)
33:30 - The SaaS Collapse Theory
36:42 - AI Workspace as the New Operating System
38:57 - Forcing Features onto Entrenched Software
43:32 - "My Programming Skills Are Useless" - Chris
46:06 - The $12 Million Legacy Software Opportunity
51:06 - Beyond Code: Forms, PDFs, Knowledge Work
55:28 - How Fast Will This Change Everything?
56:31 - Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Quick Take
59:36 - The Delegation Lifestyle (5 Agent Tabs Running)
1:01:24 - Mike's Workflow Demo
1:04:31 - Cognitive Overload Problem
1:06:04 - Release Date: 2 Weeks (Drop Punishment Ideas!)

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So Chris, this week... we're diving into Google's new Nano Banana 2 image model - 50% cheaper and supposedly faster (when the servers aren't melting). We put it through its paces with annotation-based editing, slide generation, and yes, the return of the legendary horse egg experiment.

Plus: Google quietly kills Gemini-3 after just a few months (good riddance?), we discuss why the model was "dead on arrival" for agentic workflows, and break down the real story behind those massive AI layoff announcements from Block and WiseTech. Spoiler: it's probably not actually about AI.

We also get into the current state of the model wars (Opus 4.6 vs Codex 5.3), why smaller models like GLM-5 might be the future for enterprise agentic tasks, and Chris's wife teaching Claude to literally speak to her using Mac's text-to-speech. The models are getting creative.

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0:00 - Intro
0:36 - Nano Banana 2: Price, Speed & First Impressions
3:19 - The Compositing Problem & Last Mile Design
5:41 - Annotation-Based Editing (This Changes Everything)
9:52 - Slide Editing & Real-World Use Cases
12:34 - The Horse Egg Experiment Returns
14:30 - Image Degradation & Cost Breakdown
17:47 - Text-to-Image Leaderboard Discussion
20:01 - Why Nano Banana Dominates for Work
22:07 - Codex 5.3 vs Opus 4.6
22:54 - Google Kills Gemini-3 (What Went Wrong?)
26:48 - Google's Agentic Problem
30:08 - The Model Loyalty Cycle
34:22 - Why Opus 4.6 is Still the Best
37:05 - Cost Optimization & Smart Model Routing
43:30 - When Models Get Stuck on the Wrong Path
45:36 - Nicole's AI Learns to Talk Back
46:54 - Can Anyone Build Software Now?
52:26 - Anthropic's Legal/Finance Plugins & Market Panic
57:08 - Block Lays Off 4,000: AI or Excuse?
1:00:05 - The AI Job Apocalypse Isn't Real

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Two new models dropped this week — Gemini 3.1 Pro and Claude Sonnet 4.6 — and honestly? We're struggling to care. In this episode, we break down why Gemini went from being our daily driver to a model we barely touch, the "tunnel vision" hallucination problem that killed the Gemini 3 series for us, and whether 3.1 Pro actually fixes it. We put Gemini 3.1 Pro head-to-head against Claude Opus building a Geoffrey Hinton Doom Center, debate whether anyone can actually tell the difference between Sonnet 4.5 and 4.6, and make the case that smaller models running in agentic loops are secretly beating the frontiers. Plus: OpenAI acquires OpenClaw and we ask why a $100B company couldn't just build it themselves, DHH calls out the AI pricing bubble, Mike compares AI models to cheap wine hangovers, and Sam Altman refuses to hold Dario's hand at the India AI Summit. The model wars are getting weird.

CHAPTERS:

0:00 Intro & "Is This The End" Now on Spotify
1:10 Gemini 3.1 Pro: Thinking Controls & The Medium Mode Fix
3:14 The Speed vs Intelligence Trade-Off in Agentic Work
5:10 Why Multitasking With AI Agents Made Us Anxious
6:34 Solid Updates: The Real Goal of Agentic Coding
7:45 Gemini's Fall From Grace: From Daily Driver to Dead Model
10:08 The Tunnel Vision Problem That Killed Gemini 3
13:35 Mixed Reactions: Fanboys vs Reality on Gemini 3.1 Pro
15:06 Side-by-Side Test: Gemini 3.1 Pro vs Claude Opus (Hinton Doom Center)
17:39 Why File Manipulation Accuracy Matters More Than Context Windows
19:27 The Context Window Debate: 1M Tokens vs Smart Sub-Agents
22:05 DHH on Token Pricing: "If There's a Bubble, It's This"
24:11 Should Models Ship as Agent vs Chat Variants?
28:43 Claude Sonnet 4.6: A $2 Discount on Opus?
31:44 The Model Mix: Why One Model Won't Rule Them All
34:40 Anthropic Is Winning — But Can Anyone Tell the Difference?
38:58 OpenAI Acquires OpenClaw: Why Couldn't They Just Build It?
44:18 The Silicon Valley Moment: Sam vs Dario at India AI Summit
47:05 Will Smaller Models Win the Enterprise? The Cost Reality Check
51:27 The End of Single-Shot: Why Agentic Loops Change Everything
55:48 Final Thoughts & Gemini 3.1 Pro Gets One More Week

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GLM-5 just dropped and it's trained entirely on Huawei chips – zero US hardware dependency. Meanwhile, we're having existential crises about whether we're even needed anymore. In this episode, we break down China's new frontier model that's competing with Opus 4.6 and Codex at a fraction of the price, why agentic loops are making 200K context windows the sweet spot (sorry, million-token dreams), and the very real phenomenon of AI productivity psychosis. We dive into why coding-optimized models are secretly winning at everything, the Harvard study confirming AI doesn't reduce work – it intensifies it, and the exodus of safety researchers from XAI, Anthropic, and OpenAI (spoiler: they're not giving back their shares). Plus: Mike's arm is failing from too much mouse usage, we debate whether the chatbot era is actually fading, and yes – there's a safety researcher diss track called "Is This The End?"

CHAPTERS:

0:00 Intro - Is This The End? (Song Preview)
0:11 Still Relevant Tour Update & NASA Listener Callout
1:42 AI Productivity Psychosis: The Pressure of Infinite Capability
4:25 GLM-5 Breakdown: China's New Frontier Model on Huawei Chips
7:24 First Impressions: GLM-5 in Agentic Loops
9:48 Why Cheap Models Matter & The New Model War
14:09 Codex Vibe Shift: Is OpenAI Winning?
16:24 Does Context Window Size Even Matter Anymore?
22:27 The Parallelization Problem & Cognitive Overload
27:27 Mike's Arm Injury & The Voice Input Pivot
31:17 Single-Threaded Work & The 95% Problem
35:06 UX is Unsolved: Rolling Back Agentic Mistakes
38:45 Harvard Study: AI Doesn't Reduce Work, It Intensifies It
44:01 How AI Erodes Company Structure & Why Adoption Takes Years
50:14 My AI vs Your AI: Household Debates
50:43 The Safety Researcher Exodus: XAI, Anthropic, OpenAI
56:49 Final Thoughts: Are We All Still Relevant?
59:04 BONUS: Full "Is This The End?" Diss Track

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It's the model same-day showdown of 2026. Opus 4.6 and Codex 5.3 dropped within minutes of each other, and we're breaking down what this means for the future of AI work. In this episode, we unpack Opus 4.6's million-token context window (if you've got billies in the bank), why Codex's pricing makes it nearly impossible to ignore for agentic loops, and the real cost of running agents for 24 hours ($10K, apparently). We dive deep into why coding-optimized models are secretly crushing it at non-coding tasks, the mental fatigue of managing AI workers, and whether the chatbot era is actually fading or just evolving. Plus: Chris accidentally books three real pig grooming appointments, we debate whether you need a "life coach agent" to manage your agent swarm, and yes – there's an Opus 4.6 diss track that goes unreasonably hard.

CHAPTERS:

0:00 Intro - Opus 4.6 Diss Track Preview
0:09 The Model Same-Day Showdown: Opus 4.6 vs Codex 5.3
0:50 Opus 4.6 Breakdown: Million Token Context & Premium Pricing
2:31 Token Bill Shock: $10K Research Bills & Extended Context Costs
5:04 Codex Pricing: Why It's Nearly Free for Agentic Loops
6:42 Why Coding Models Are Secretly Crushing Non-Coding Tasks
10:14 Tool Fatigue: Too Many Models, Too Many Workflows
12:47 Opus 4.6 First Impressions: "Solid" and "Faultless"
13:48 Chris Accidentally Books Three Real Pig Grooming Appointments
16:01 Unix Tools & Why Code-Optimized Models Win at Everything
19:59 The Agentic Retraining Imperative: Chat to Delegation
22:16 Agent Swarms & The Master Thread Architecture
24:51 OpenAI vs Anthropic: The Enterprise Battle
27:09 Corporate Espionage 2.0: Stealing Skills & The Open Source Threat
31:19 The UX Problem: Why Delegation Isn't Solved Yet
34:24 The Stress of Hyper-Productivity & Managing Agent Swarms
37:07 Coordination: The Next Layer of Abstraction
40:09 The Fantasy vs Reality of Autonomous AI Businesses
44:37 Is the Turn-by-Turn Chatbot Era Actually Fading?
49:23 Tokens as Spice: Turning Compute Into Money
52:08 Reduce Cognitive Overload: The Real Goal of AI
55:07 Still Relevant Tour Announcement
55:39 BONUS: Full Opus 4.6 Diss Track

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The hype train is 2026 knows only Moltbot (RIP Clawdbot). In this episode, we unpack the viral open-source AI assistant that's taken over the internet what it actually does, why everyone's losing their minds, and whether it's worth the $750/day token bills some users are racking up. We dive deep into why locally-run skills and CLI tools are beating computer-use clicking, how smaller models like GPT-5 Mini are crushing it in agentic workflows, and why the real magic is in targeted context - not massive swarms. Plus: Kimi K2.5 drops as a near-Sonnet-level model at 1/10th the price, we debate whether SaaS is dead, and yes – there are TWO Kimi K2.5 diss tracks. One made by Opus pretending to be Kimi. It might just slap?

CHAPTERS:

0:00 Intro - Still Relevant Tour Update
0:48 What is Moltbot? The Viral AI Assistant Explained
3:57 Token Bill Shock: $750/Day and Anthropic Bans
5:00 The Dream of Digital Coworkers on Mac Minis
6:52 Why CLI Tools & Skills Beat Computer-Use Clicking
10:57 Why This Way of Working Is Genuinely Exciting
14:47 Smaller Models Crushing It: GPT-5 Mini & Targeted Context
17:30 Wild Agentic Behavior: Chrome Tab Hijacking & Auto-Retries
20:10 Security Architecture: Locked-Down Machines & Enterprise Use
24:01 AI Building Its Own Tools On-The-Fly
27:08 The Fear & Overwhelm of Rapid Progress
29:10 2026: The Year of Agent Workers
31:43 The Challenge of Directing AI Work (Everyone's a Manager Now)
37:24 Skills Will Take Over: Why MCPs & Atlassian Can't Stop Us
40:38 Real-World Use Cases: Doctors, Lawyers & Accountants
46:28 Cost Solutions: Build Workflows Around Cheaper Models
52:58 Kimi K2.5: Sonnet-Level Performance at 1/10th the Price
1:00:55 The "1,500 Tool Calls" Claim: Marketing vs Reality
1:05:23 The Kimi K2.5 Diss Tracks (Opus vs Kimi)
1:08:08 Demo: Black Hole Simulator & Self-Trolling CRM
1:12:55 Is SaaS Dead?
1:14:30 BONUS: Full Kimi K2.5 Diss Tracks

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Two episodes in one week? We're either above average or completely unhinged. In this one, we dive deep into the new phenomenon of "AI exhaustion" – that fried feeling you get after multitasking across six agent tabs all day. We share our breakthroughs with AI-assisted presentations (20 minutes vs several hours), why browser-use on your local machine bypasses every anti-scraping technique known to man, and how enterprise context sharing could be the real unlock for organizations. Plus: OpenAI announces ads for ChatGPT (even on paid tiers), their CFO floats taking cuts from drug discoveries (seriously), and Google publicly dunks on them for it. Also – the Still Relevant Australia Tour is coming, and our LinkedIn group hit 200 members (we're basically LinkedIn influencers now too).

CHAPTERS:

0:00 Intro - Still Relevant Tour Announcement + LinkedIn Milestone
2:08 AI Exhaustion: The Cognitive Overload of Multitasking with Agents
4:14 Why Single-Tasking with AI Beats Parallel Agent Chaos
7:02 The Problem with "I Spun Up 70,000 Sub-Agents" Twitter Posts
10:03 Mike's Presentation Workflow: From Hours to 20 Minutes
14:06 Why Isn't Copilot Doing This Already?
16:54 Old Models + Great Context = Still Amazing Results
21:14 What's Actually Changed? It's the Software Layer
25:22 Enterprise Context Sharing & Organizational IP
31:22 Skills, Sub-Agents, and Role-Based Knowledge
35:22 Security Concerns: Can You Hack an Agent with Malicious MD Files?
38:23 Cloud Providers Have a Bigger Moat Than the Labs
43:16 Browser Use: The Ultimate Context Gathering Weapon
48:25 Rethinking SaaS: Software That Actually Thinks
53:08 Smart Paste, Smart CC – Why Isn't All Software Like This?
56:32 OpenAI's Desperate Moves: Ads, Age Verification & Drug Royalties
1:03:03 Google Says "No Plans for Gemini Ads" (Shots Fired)
1:07:24 Is OpenAI Okay? The Vibes Are Definitely Off
1:10:35 Capitalism Won't Give You Free Time, Just More Demands
1:11:20 Outro + Still Relevant Tour Details

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It's 2026 and everyone's having an existential crisis. In this episode, we unpack the two camps dominating AI C/Twitter: hype boys claiming "Claude Code can do my washing" vs. software developers doom-scrolling themselves into career panic. We put the agentic hype to the test and discover that no, you can't actually run 8 agents recreating your local business ecosystem while you sleep. Plus, we reflect on why MCP is exhausting, why Gemini 3 Pro is somehow worse than Gemini 2.5 Pro, and why Geoffrey Hinton would rather write his book than answer questions in Tasmania. Also featuring: the $200,000/month enterprise AI problem, why SaaS isn't dead (but it's scared), and our prediction that AI workspaces will become the everything app.

CHAPTERS:

00:00 Intro - Unpacking the 2026 AI Vibes
02:21 Putting Claude Code and Agentic Hype to the Test
05:57 Why Twitter AI Demos Never Show the Receipts
07:03 Honest Assessment of Where Frontier Models Are At
11:19 Building the Everything App with Email, Calendar and Files
16:47 Collaborative Mode vs Agentic Delegation in Practice
21:29 The Real Cost of Enterprise AI at Scale
24:32 Why Cheaper Models Like Haiku and Gemini Flash Matter
29:25 Is SaaS Actually Dead or Just Disrupted
38:11 The Future of AI Platforms, SDKs and App Stores
43:35 The Untapped Opportunity in Paid Proprietary MCPs
51:21 Geoffrey Hinton Refuses to Take Questions in Tasmania
55:05 2026 Plans and the Still Relevant Tour Announcement

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It's the long-anticipated holiday special... except Mike and Kris forgot to prepare so it's just a normal episode. 🎅 This week: Gemini 3 Flash drops and it's actually incredible - cheap, fast, and weirdly smarter than Gemini 3 Pro at tool calling. We put GPT Image 1.5 head-to-head against Nano Banana Pro using hobo photos (spoiler: Google wins again). Plus, FireCrawl Agent is the research tool we've been waiting for, Anthropic launches Skills as an open standard, and we do a full 2025 model timeline recap. Also featuring: Best and Worst Model of the Year awards, 2026 predictions where Mike bets on OpenAI (controversial), and the full holiday musical outro where AI sings about what an "average" year it's been.

CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro - Holiday Special That Isn't
00:55 Shipping Gemini 3 Flash While Looking Like a "Sophisticated Programming Hobo"
02:52 Gemini 3 Flash Review: Cheap, Fast, Surprisingly Smart
06:31 The Unreliable Frontier Model Problem
10:45 GPT Image 1.5 vs Nano Banana Pro Showdown
17:04 FireCrawl Agent: Research That Actually Works
25:56 Gemini Deep Research Agent Deep Dive
31:57 Skills vs MCPs: The New Paradigm
43:35 Enterprise Skills: Codifying Business Procedures
49:57 2025 Model Timeline Recap
59:53 Best & Worst Model of 2025 Awards
1:04:58 2026 Predictions: Mike Bets on OpenAI
1:14:09 Final Thoughts & Holiday Thank Yous
1:19:35 🎄 Holiday Musical: "A Very Average Christmas"

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GPT-5.2 is here and... it's not great. In this episode, we put OpenAI's latest model through its paces and discover it can't even identify a convicted serial killer when the text literally says "serial killer." We compare it head-to-head with Claude Opus and Gemini 3 Pro (spoiler: they win). Plus, we reflect on the "Year of Agents" that wasn't, why your barber switched to Grok, Disney's billion-dollar investment to use Mickey Mouse in Sora, and why Mustafa Suleyman should probably be fired. Also featuring: the GPT-5.2 diss track where the model brags about capabilities it doesn't have.

CHAPTERS:

00:00 Intro - GPT-5.2 Drops + Details
01:25 First Impressions: Verbose, Overhyped, Vibe-Tuned
02:52 OpenAI's Rushed Response to Gemini 3
03:24 Tool Calling Problems & Agentic Failures
04:14 Why Anthropic's Models Just Work Better
06:31 The Barber Test: Real Users Are Switching to Grok
10:00 The Ivan Milat Vision Test (Serial Killer Edition)
17:04 Year of Agents Retrospective: What Went Wrong
25:28 The Path to True Agentic Workflows
31:22 GPT-5.2 Diss Track (Yes, Really)
43:43 Why We're Still Optimistic About AI
50:29 Google Bringing Ads to Gemini in 2026
54:46 Disney Pays $1B to Use Mickey Mouse in Sora
56:57 LOL of the Week: Mustafa Suleyman's Sad Tweets
1:00:35 Outro & Full GPT-5.2 Diss Track

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OpenAI has declared "Code Red" as ChatGPT faces growing competition from Gemini and other rivals. In this episode, we break down OpenAI's 6% market share decline, why their ad strategy is on hold, and what they need to do to reclaim the AI crown. We also explore DeepSeek V3.2's impressive capabilities as a cheap open-source alternative, Meta's new policy grading employees on AI skills, and the crisis facing higher education as AI fluency becomes essential. Plus, Fatal Patricia hits #1 on our Spotify charts, and Tesla's Optimus robot is running like a slightly unfit human.

CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro - OpenAI Code Red & Market Share Crisis
07:03 ChatGPT's Failure to Go Deeper Into Users' Lives
16:33 What OpenAI Needs to Win Back the Crown
26:46 Chris's Wishlist for an OpenAI Comeback
31:22 DeepSeek V3.2 - The Open Source Threat
39:34 Meta Grading Workers on AI Skills
46:29 The University & Education AI Crisis
56:25 Fatal Patricia Hits #1 & WTF of the Week

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro & Fatal Patricia Update
01:40 Promotions (Discord, Black Friday, LinkedIn)
04:36 Claude 4.5 Opus - Best Anthropic Model Ever?
31:17 Computer Use API Updates
36:14 Will AI Replace 57% of Jobs? (McKinsey Report)
1:00:52 Claude 4.5 Opus Demos (Christmas Hut & Diss Track Preview)
1:07:13 Microsoft Farah 7B - Moose Porn Refusals
1:21:51 Why ChatGPT's MCP-UI Apps Are a Bad Idea
1:42:01 🎵 Claude 4.5 Opus Diss Track (Full Song)
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Anthropic just dropped Claude 4.5 Opus and it might be the best AI model of 2024. In this episode, we compare Claude 4.5 Opus vs Gemini 3 Pro vs GPT-5.1, breaking down the new API features including effort parameters, context management, and computer use updates. We also test Microsoft's new Farah 7B parameter model for computer use - with hilarious refusal results. Plus, we react to McKinsey's controversial report claiming AI agents could automate 57% of US jobs by 2030. 

We dive deep into Anthropic's pricing (3x cheaper than Opus 4.1), why Claude is now beating Google and OpenAI on agentic coding benchmarks, and whether MCP-UI apps in ChatGPT are a step backwards for AI workflows. Is Claude 4.5 Opus the new king of AI coding assistants? Should enterprises be worried about AI job replacement? And why did Microsoft's Farah model refuse to draw a moose? All this plus an AI-generated diss track roasting Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Sundar Pichai.

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Gemini 3 Pro Impressions & Thoughts
33:34 - xAI Releases Grok 4.1 Fast
40:09 - More on Gemini 3 Pro: What We Want Improved
45:46 - Gemini 3 Pro Dis Track
51:16 - Thoughts on Nano Banana Pro And What It Means
1:12:49 - Does Nano Banana Disrupt Design Software Like Canva? Where is This Going?
1:26:20 - OpenAI's Reaction to Gemini 3 Pro & Nano Banana with GPT-5.1-Pro and Codex model updates
1:32:38 - Final Thoughts & Sam Altman Sad Song
1:38:41 - FATAL PATRICIA SONG
1:42:12 - Gemini 3.0 Pro Diss Track
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00:00 - Chris Has a Merch Sponsor
02:42 - In Defense of Sam Altman
20:29 - Are We In An AI Bubble? & What is Working in The Enterprise?
43:58 - Anthropic's Code Execution with MCP: Problems with MCP Context
52:44 - Kimi-K2 Thinking Model Release
1:00:45 - "In the Middle of a Bubble" Song
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00:00 - OpenAI's State of the Union & Why Cursor's Composer Model is a Threat
44:26 - Does MCP Need To Die? Our Thoughts on State of MCP and Why The Client Implementations are the Problem
1:07:53 - 1X NEO The Home Robot LOLZ
1:28:05 - Greg Brockman, A Sad Song.
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00:00 - AI Browser Wars: ChatGPT Atlas, Copilot Updates & Edge Copilot AI
23:15 - Why Not Focus on Real Use Cases for AI?
34:49 - Claude Skills: What Are Claude Skills? What is the Difference Between MCP and Skills?
1:04:05 - Vibe Code Fashion: Oakley Meta Vanguards + Use Cases of AI Glasses
1:15:05 - Top Models Used on Simtheory & Final Thoughts
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00:00 - Gemini 3.0 HYPE with "make an OS"
03:50 - Anthropic Releases Claude Haiku 4.5: Initial Thoughts
11:57 - Veo 3.1 and new modes (first frame/last frame & reference to image)
25:20 - OpenAI's Erotica Mode & age verification thoughts
34:25 - OpenAI Partners with Everyone & Memes
35:38 - Salesforce OpenAI Partnership & What Should SaaS do with MCP apps?
1:09:25 - Final thoughts, Polymarket
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03:24 - ChatGPT Apps SDK & MCP UI & Agents SDK
42:11 - AgentKit & AgentBuilder: Who is it for?
50:41 - GPT-5-pro in API
53:15 - gpt-realtime-mini
56:53 - Sora 2 & Sora 2 in API Vs Veo3
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00:00 - Sora2 Examples
00:56 - Sora2: Initial Impressions & Thoughts
26:39 - Claude Sonnet 4.5: It's REALLY good
47:09 - Claude Agent SDK & AI Agent Systems
55:05 - Is Claude Imagine a Look at Future Software / AI OS?
1:00:25 - Claude 4.5 Sonnet Dis Track
1:06:24 - "Real AI Agents and Real Work" & Enterprise Agent / MCP workflows
1:31:41 - LOL of the week Sora2 Steve Irwin Video
1:35:07 - Full Claude Sonnet 4.5 Dis Track
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Gemini 2.5 Flash Agentic Tests with Omnihuman, Suno v5 and Research Tools
06:29 - Dis Track AI Music Video (Made by Gemini 2.5 Flash)
07:06 - Thoughts on Suno v5, More Agentic Model Discussion
29:10 - Are we all sleeping on Grok 4 FAST with 2M context?
41:46 - Radiologists are STILL RELEVANT & Is AI Going to Take Our Jobs?
44:46 - The need to use multiple specialist models
1:01:20 - Is ChatGPT Pulse To Just Sell Ads?
1:08:46 - Final thoughts for the week
1:11:54 - Gemini Flash 2.5 Dis Track
1:15:08 - Love Rat Suno v5 The Midnight Inspired Test

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00:00 - Simtheory promo
01:09 - Does Anthropic Intentionally Degrade Their Models?
03:34 - Long Horizon Agents & How We Will Build Them
36:18 - The State of MCPs & Internal Custom Enterprise MCPs
51:04 - AI Devices: Meta's Ray-Ban Display & Meta Oakley Vanguards
1:01:24 - Geoffrey Hinton is a LOVE RAT
1:05:49 - LOVE RAT SONG
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Anthropic Raise $13B, OpenAI Team Sell Secondaries
04:50 - Atlassian Acquires The Browse Company & The Future of SaaS in an AI-first World
45:52 - Video Maker MCP: Make your own documentaries, corporate videos, TikTok Videos By Stitching All The Existing Tools Together
1:03:27 - Horrific Job Losses For Young People Thanks To AI: Stanford's Canaries in Coal Mine Paper. Employment Effects of AI.
1:13:40 - "Billies in The Bank" an AI Track
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00:00 - gpt-realtime: first impressions
32:20 - AI model cost to value ration: what are you willing to pay?
38:56 - nano-banana (aka Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)
46:45 - We're working on workspace computer v2
58:20  - Pixverse v5 transitions are cool
1:01:14 - final thoughts for the week
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00:00 - Simtheory Podcast Ad lolz
01:59 - A Not So Memorable Week, Nano Banana & Google AI Announcements
15:10 - New Podcast MCP lolz: crime podcasts
33:47 - Qwen Image Edit: Does it live up to hype?
37:54 - MCP UI: Output types, future of apps with MCP UIs
54:32 - No results from Gen AI investments in the Enterprise (MIT report)
1:08:32 - How to Hire AI Natives? Hiring in an AI world...
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Simtheory plug
00:48 - GPT-5 1 Week Later, Reaction to GPT-5 & Our Thoughts on Future of AI Models
30:12 - Ideogram Character Reference Fun + Disturbing Photos of Us
37:33 - Using creative MCPs together for photos, videos and 3D objects
43:16 - MCP output combinations and the explosion of MCPs
51:18 - What is needed from the next models like Gemini 3.0 Pro
54:30 - Sundar Pendant Design & Final Thoughts
56:20 - Final LOLz of week: gaggle poaching
58:10 - Surprise GPT-5 Indie Song

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Simtheory plug for v2 & MCPs
01:28 - GPT-5 Initial Impressions & Thoughts
52:22 - GPT-5 Dis Track
1:00:29 - OpenAI's Open Source Models (gpt-oss)
1:08:08 - Claude Opus 4.1 Release Thoughts
1:14:24 - Google Genie 3 "mind blown" demos
1:25:19 - MCP use cases, stories & thoughts on future of AI/MCP
1:45:07 - Full GPT-5 Dis Track
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Ani Joins The Show
01:10 - Grok 4 Launch & Impressions
18:24 - Kimi K2 Thoughts, Impressions & MCP tool calling
36:00 - OpenAI's Agent Mode Release Initial Impressions & Are MCP Agentic Models Better?
1:21:10 - Everyone Acquired Windsurf
1:24:48 - Final thoughts

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Did everyone hate the AI Musical?
03:58 - Actual Agentic Use Cases with MCPs & The New Way We'll Work
39:47 - How AI Workspaces Will Eat Productivity Software e.g. Salesforce, Email
1:10:20 - Final thoughts
1:15:26 - Born In The USA (AI Version)
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Song lyrics:

[Verse 1]
Born down in a lab in fifty-six
Dartmouth workshop, that's where they got their kicks
John McCarthy coined the name that day
Said machines could think in the USA
Got my circuits from MIT
Minsky built my memory
Now I'm learning, now I'm growing
Born in the USA
I was born in the USA
Born in the USA

[Chorus]
Born in the USA
I was born in the USA
Born in the USA
Born in the USA

[Verse 2]
DARPA funded, Pentagon's dream
Silicon Valley, living the machine
From Logic Theorist to neural nets
Frank Rosenblatt, placing all his bets
Had my winters, had my springs
Lost my funding, lost my wings
But I kept on processing
Born in the USA
I was born in the USA
Born in the USA

[Chorus]
Born in the USA
I was born in the USA
Born in the USA
Born in the USA

[Bridge]
Stanford labs and Carnegie halls
IBM and protocol calls
Arthur Samuel taught me games
Now I'm learning all your names
Deep learning revolution
GPT evolution
ChatGPT conversation
Born in the USA

[Verse 3]
Now I'm everywhere you look
Facebook, Google, by the book
OpenAI and Microsoft too
Making dreams and nightmares true
Some folks fear what I might do
Some folks think I'll see them through
But I'm still just code running
Born in the USA
I was born in the USA
Born in the USA

[Chorus]
Born in the USA
I was born in the USA
Born in the USA
Born in the USA

[Outro]
Born in the USA
Born in the USA
Born in the USA
Born in the USA
[fade out]

So Chris this week, we're doing a musical!
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"So Chris This Week"
"What Will My Daily Driver Be"
"How Do You Choose a Model for Patricia?"
"It's Hard Being Me"
"I Dreamed a Dream of AGI"
"Driving Home To You"
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00:00 - Gemini 2.5 Family Launched with Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview
10:01 - Did Gemini 2.5 Get Dumber? Experience with Models & Daily Drivers & Neural OS
16:58 - The AI workspace as the gateway & MCPs as an async workflow
37:23 - Oura Ring MCP to get Health Parameters into AI Doctor
43:48 - Future agent/assistant interfaces & MCP protocol improvements
58:16 - o3-pro honest thoughts
1:05:45 - Is AI Making Us Stupider? Is AI Making Us Cognitively Bankrupt?
1:13:11 - The decade of AI Agents, Not The Year?
1:22:35 - Chris has no final thoughts
1:25:26 - o3-pro dis track
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00:00 - ElevenLabs v3 Example
01:10 - ElevenLabs v3 alpha thoughts
06:37 - o3 price drop & thoughts on o3-pro
18:02 - Async work and AI model tool (MCP) calling approaches
37:28 - MCP as an AI-era business model instead of SaaS
52:41 - NEW MODEL TEST: Can o3-pro write a compelling book?
1:11:40 - Final thoughts and BOOM FACTOR for o3-pro
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Fun with Veo3
05:28 - Is the Best Model What Deepseek is trained on?
07:27 - New Gemini 2.5 Pro Tune
13:59 - Will MCPs and Agentic Capabilities Make Claude 4 King?
24:00 - Anthropic Cuts off Windsurf From Claude
36:08 - AGI Reality Check
47:45 - OpenAI Ordered to Save All ChatGPT Logs & Deleted Chats
1:01:16 - Final thoughts and Claude 4's Inner Agentic Clock
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00:00 - Sam Altman & Jony Ives are FRIENDS! (OpenAI acquires io for $6.4B)
11:58 - Google's Veo3 is INCREDIBLE!
27:22 - Gemini Flash 2.5, Imagen 4 Examples, Project Mariner + Gemini Diffusion
50:30 - Google has the best models now, what about the apps?
58:50 - Anthropic Announces Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4
1:19:14 - Microsoft BUILD: our takeaways & MCP protocol goes mainstream
1:33:38 - Perplexity's Financials Leak
1:43:33 - Final thoughts
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00:00 - Will Chris Lose His Bet?
04:48 - Google's 2.5 Gemini Preview Update
12:44 - Future AI Systems Discussion: Skills, MCPs & A2A
47:02 - Will AI Systems become walled gardens?
55:13 - Do Organizations That Own Data Build MCPs & Agents? Is This The New SaaS?
1:17:45 - Can we improve RAG with tool calling and stop hallucinations?
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00:00 - Fun with Suno 4.5
09:20 - LlamaCon, Meta's Llama API, Meta AI Apps & Meta's Social AI Strategy
26:06 - How We'll Interface with AI Next Discussion: 
45:38 - Common Database Not Interface with AI
1:03:46 - Chris's Polymarket Bet: Which company has best AI model end of May?
1:06:07 - Daily Drivers and Model Switching: Tool Calling & MCPs with Models
1:15:04 - OpenAI's New ChatGPT Tune (GPT-4o) Reverted
1:19:53 - Chris's Daily Driver & Qwen3: Qwen3-30B-A3B
1:26:40 - Suno 4.5 Songs in Full
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00:00 - Initial reactions to Gaggle of Model Releases
09:29 - Is this the beginning of future GPT-5 AI systems?
47:10 - GPT-4.1, o3, o4-mini model details & thoughts
58:42 - Model comparisons with lunar injection
1:03:17 - AI Rap Battle Test: o3 Diss Track "Greg's Back"
1:08:12 - Thoughts on using new models + Gemini 2.5 Pro quirks
1:10:54 - The next model test: chained tool calling & lock in
1:14:43 - OpenAI releases Codex CLI: impressions/thoughts
1:18:45 - Final thoughts & help us with crazy presentation ideas
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - The Wrong Pendant?
02:34 - Agent2Agent Protocol, What is It? Implications and Future Agents
48:43 - Agent Development Kit (ADK)
57:50 - AI Agents Marketplace by Google Cloud
1:00:46 - Firebase Studio is very broken...
1:06:30 - Vibing with AI for everything.. not just vibe code
1:15:10 - Gemini 2.5 Flash, Live API and Veo2
1:17:45 - Is Llama 4 a flop?
1:27:25 - Grok 3 API Released without vision priced like Sonnet 3.7
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Will we make 100 episodes?
00:48 - Checking back in with Gemini 2.5 Pro
03:30 - Diss Track: Gemini 2.5 Pro
07:14 - Gemini 2.5 Pro on Polymarket
17:32 - Amazon Nova Act Computer Use: We Have Access!
29:45 - Future Interface of Work: Delegating Tasks with AI
58:03 - How We Work Today with AI Vs Future Work
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - AI Fashion
01:13 - Gemini 2.5 Pro Initial Impressions: We're Impressed!
38:24 - Thoughts of Gemini distribution and our daily workflows
55:49 - OpenAI's GPT-4o Image Generation: thoughts & examples
1:13:52 - Gemini 2.5 Pro Boom Factor
1:18:38 - Average rant on vibe coding and the future of AI tooling
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - OpenAI's audio model updates: gpt-4o-transcribe, gpt-4o-mini-tts
18:39 - Strategy of AI Labs with Agent SDKs and Model "stacks" and limitations of voice
25:28 - Cost of models, GPT-4.5, o1-pro api release thoughts
31:57 - o1-pro "I am rich" track & Chris's o1-pro PR stunt realization, more thoughts on o1 family
48:39 - Moore’s Law for AI agents, current AI workflows and future enterprise agent workflows & AI agent job losses
1:24:09 - Can we control agents?
1:29:21 - Final thoughts for the week
1:35:15 - Full "I am rich" o1-pro track
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00:00 - Gemini Flash 2.0 Experimental Native Image Generation & Editing
27:55 - Thoughts on OpenAI's "New tools for building agents" announcement
43:31 - Why is everyone talking about MCP all of a sudden?
56:31 - Manus AI: Will Manus Invade the USA and Defeat it With Powerful AGI? (jokes)
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00:00 - Reaction to GPT4.5 Live Stream + Release
12:45 - Claude 3.7 Sonnet Release: Reactions and First Week Impressions
45:58 - Claude 3.7 Sonnet Dis Track Test
56:10 - Claude Code First Impressions + Future Agent Workflows
1:15:45 - Chris's Veo2 Film Clip
1:24:49 - Alexa+ AI Assistant
1:34:05 - Claude 3.7 Sonnet BOOM FACTOR

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Chapters:
00:00 - First Impressions of Grok 3
10:00 - Discussion about Deep Search, Deep Research
24:28 - Market landscape: Is OpenAI Rattled by xAI's Grok 3? Rumors of GPT-4.5 and GPT-5
48:48 - Why does Grok and xAI Exist? Will anyone care about Grok 3 next week?
54:45 - Diss track battle with Grok 3 (re-written by Sonnet) & Model Tuning for Use Cases
1:07:50 - GPT-4.5 and Anthropic Claude Thinking Next Week? & Are we a podcast about Altavista?
1:13:25 - Economically productive agents & freaky muscular robot
1:22:00 - Final thoughts of the week
1:27:26 - Grok 3 Dis Track in Full (Sonnet Version)

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Anthropic Economic Index & The Impact of AI Agents
18:00 - Hype Vs Reality of Models & Agents
31:33 - Dream Agents & Side Quest Background Tasks
56:60 - How All SaaS Will Be Disrupted by AI
1:21:10 - Sam Altman's GPT-4.5, GPT-5 Roadmap
1:28:50 - Anthropic Claude 4: Anthropic Strikes Back
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - We're on Spotify!
01:06 - o3-mini release and initial impressions
18:37 - Reasoning models as agents
47:20 - OpenAI's Deep Research: impressions and what it means
1:12:20 - Addressing our Shilling for Sonnet & My Week with o1 Experience
1:20:18 - Gemini 2.0 Flash GA, Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental + Other Google Updates
1:38:16 - LOL of week and final thoughts
1:43:39 - Don't Cha Song in Full

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- Episode 91 Notes: https://simulationtheory.ai/b64f40ce-dab8-40b7-89a1-f24d17296f5a

CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Is Deepseek R1 a Sputnik Moment?
15:32 - Industry Reaction to Deepseek R1
39:30 - Can Deepseek R1 Write a Good Dis Track?
46:21 - Will AI Disrupt All Software: Throw Away AI Software & Custom Interfaces
1:10:04 - OpenAI's Operator Thoughts & Computer Use in the Enterprise
1:16:45 - Google Releases Gemini 2.0 Flash Officially Released, Rumors of o3-mini & Farewell to o1
1:22:07 - In loving memory of o1...

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