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112: Today in AI: China Sweeps Open Source Rankings, DeepSeek & Qwen Beat Meta's Llama

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First aired: 16 December 2025
Summary: China's absolutely dominated the open-source AI rankings this year, and it's not even close. A new tier list from Interconnects puts DeepSeek at the top, followed by Qwen and Kimi - all Chinese labs. Meta's Llama models? They've been relegated to an "honourable mention" at the bottom, which is pretty embarrassing considering Zuckerberg spent hundreds of millions poaching engineers and then hasn't released anything in months. The whole top tier is Chinese models, and they're not just good, they're genuinely brilliant, and they're giving them away completely open-source. You can fine-tune them, deploy them on your own servers, do whatever you want with them.
The irony? While American labs like OpenAI and Anthropic are locking everything down behind paywalls and API subscriptions, China's playing the long game. Their models are being used in Y Combinator startups, they're spreading across the developing world, and they're getting better precisely because they're open. It's a completely different business model and development paradigm, and right now, it's winning. Whether it's strategic genius or just a different approach to software development, China's figured out that giving away world-class AI models might be more valuable than charging for them.
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00:00 China Dominates Open Source AI: 2025 Tier List Revealed
03:06 AI Predictions for 2026: Scaling, Safety & Meta's Exit
04:29 Open Source AI Safety Debate: Should Models Be Free?
06:05 Closed vs Open Source: Which AI Models Are Actually Best?
08:42 How to Run AI Locally on Your Phone or Computer
09:48 Q&A: ChatGPT App Experience vs API Models
12:21 Google AI Summaries Are Killing Recipe Writers
16:52 How AI Overviews Destroy Publisher Revenue
19:10 Surviving the AI Age: Why Being Human Matters Most
21:44 Q&A Break
21:54 TIME Person of the Year: AI Architects Controversy
23:55 AI Killed My Job: Real Copywriters Share Their Stories
26:08 The Entry-Level Job Crisis: AI Eliminating Career Ladders
27:46 How AI Really Takes Jobs: Task Erosion Explained
30:01 AI Augmentation vs Replacement: What's Actually Happening
32:48 EU AI Act: Why Regulation Can't Keep Up
34:45 Do Politicians Actually Understand AI?
36:38 Albania's AI Cabinet Minister: Genius or Gimmick?
38:48 AGI Timeline: The Three Body Problem Analogy
40:04 Pentagon Forms AI Steering Committee on AGI
40:58 Chinese T-800 Robot: Military AI Gets Real
42:24 iRobot Bankruptcy: Chinese Robotics Takeover
43:44 Show Wrap-Up
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111: Your AI Product Will Fail (And It's Not Because of Competition)

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This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle News and Updates Live Stream’
First aired: 15 December 2025
Summary: Today I'm stepping away from the usual AI news coverage to talk about something more fundamental: building distribution for your business. AI has made creating products ridiculously easy, which is brilliant and also a massive problem. AI tool directories are basically graveyards now. You can build something excellent, but without distribution, you're non-existent. I don't care how good your product is; Microsoft Teams beating Slack proves distribution trumps quality every time. The solution isn't borrowing audiences or burning cash on ads - it's building in public. Document your journey, create daily content, and build your own audience whilst building your product. This isn't about becoming an influencer; it's about creating a distribution channel for what you're selling.
I walked through my approach to building an audience through consistent video content, removing friction from creation, and showing up daily until the algorithm rewards you. We covered why marketing should be step two of your business plan, not an afterthought. I also touched on the technical side: how I use Claude to plan projects and tools like Cursor and Lovable to actually build things without being a native coder. The barriers to entrepreneurship have collapsed, which is brilliant for people with ideas but no technical background. If you've got a business idea, the tools exist to make it real, BUT only if you've sorted out how to get it to people.
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0:00 Why AI Makes Business Easier—And Harder
0:27 AI Tool Directories Are Graveyards Now
1:52 Easy to Build, Hard to Sell
2:13 "If You Build It They Will Come" Is Dead
2:40 Slack vs Teams: Why Distribution Wins
3:55 Option 1: Borrow Someone Else's Audience
4:23 Option 2: Buy Distribution Through Ads
5:05 Option 3: Build in Public (The Best Way)
6:22 Why Video Beats Every Other Content Type
6:58 Distribution Building vs Being an Influencer
8:56 Ask Your Future Customers What to Build
10:28 Pre-Sell Before You Build: The Validation Hack
12:21 Case Study: Yoni's 508-Day Build in Public Journey
13:43 The 5-Step Framework to Build Distribution
14:42 Step 1: Short-Form Video & Remove All Friction
17:28 Step 2: Find Your Comrades (Dream 100 Strategy)
21:21 The Ego Play: How to Get Big Creators to Share You
22:46 Step 3: The Content Funnel—Start Broad
25:36 Content Formats: Newsjacking, Tool Reviews & More
26:52 Step 5: Plan 100 Video Ideas in Advance
27:55 Every Creator Has One Video Pop Off Unexpectedly
28:39 My Viral Video Story: 3.8 Million Views
30:11 Free Resources: Course & 4K Member Community
31:06 Q&A: Staying Authentic While Building in Public
32:06 Q&A: How to Start Vibe Coding with AI
34:24 You Don't Need to Be a Coder Anymore
35:48 Q&A: Connecting Lovable to Your CRM
36:26 Wrap Up & Where to Find Everything
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110: Today in AI: GPT 5.2 Beats Gemini 3, Disney Invests $1B in OpenAI, 400x Cost Drop

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This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle News and Updates Live Stream’
First aired: 12 December 2025
Summary: OpenAI dropped GPT 5.2 this morning and it's properly good. I've been testing it out with a silly personal quest, trying to identify a childhood PC game from scattered memories, and it finally cracked it (Virus 2000, if you're curious). But beyond my trivial victories, the benchmarks are genuinely impressive. It's dominating the ARC-AGI-2 leaderboard, forcing them to literally extend the scale because previous models are now squished into irrelevance at the bottom. What's really wild though is the cost efficiency: a task that cost $4,500 to run a year ago with their O3 model now costs $11.64 with 5.2, and it gets better results. That's a 400x reduction in twelve months, which is the kind of exponential progress people miss when they're busy saying "AI can't do X."
The other massive news is Disney investing $1 billion into OpenAI with a proper intertwined deal. It's not just money - it's a three-year licensing agreement letting Sora generate videos with Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars characters that'll stream on Disney Plus. Disney's also becoming a major OpenAI customer, deploying ChatGPT across their business and building new tools with their APIs. The timing's a bit odd since Sora development is paused for eight weeks, but the commercial and legal implications are fascinating. This feels like battle lines being drawn, especially with Netflix eyeing Warner Brothers (and therefore DC) for what looks like their own AI play. It's Marvel versus DC, but backed by competing tech giants.
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00:00 GPT 5.2 Is Here - First Impressions
01:33 ARC-AGI 2 Benchmarks: GPT 5.2 Dominates
03:01 Grok 4's Surprising Rise
04:03 What This Means for Real Work
04:24 400x Cheaper Than Last Year
06:26 Q&A: TikTok Shop & Social Commerce
07:18 Hallucination Rates Drop 40%
09:07 How LLMs Actually Work
10:05 The AI Energy Crisis
11:27 China's Strategic Power Advantage
12:40 Space Data Centers & SpaceX
13:35 Q&A: Using Multiple LLMs
14:14 Best Vibe Coding Platforms
15:55 Cursor's New Visual Editor
17:14 Warning: IDE System Access
17:41 GDP-Val: AI vs Human Performance
19:37 Task-by-Task Breakdown
20:25 The Scary 70% Threshold
21:37 AGI Timeline Reality Check
23:17 Q&A: Amazon's AI Strategy
26:04 The AI Skills Divide
28:07 Q&A: Zapier vs Make vs n8n
29:42 Building Automations with Cursor
32:17 Choosing Your Vibe Coding Tool
33:57 Google AI Studio - Free Building
34:35 Learning Path: Lovable to Cursor
36:49 Claude Code Integration
37:38 Why Build First, Learn Later
38:46 Can You Ship from Lovable?
39:59 App Security Basics
41:35 Disney's $1B OpenAI Investment
43:20 Netflix Shorts & Streaming Wars
45:52 Wrap Up & Community
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109: Today in AI: GPT 5.2 Launches Today, Pentagon Forms AGI Committee, AI Replaces Scientists

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This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle News and Updates Live Stream’
First aired: 11 December 2025
Summary: GPT 5.2 is dropping today, apparently. OpenAI's been doing their usual Thursday release schedule, and Sam Altman's been cryptically tweeting about garlic - which is the code name for whatever they're launching. This is their response to Gemini 3, and there's been some internal drama with people saying the model should be delayed, but executives pushed it through anyway. Classic OpenAI move. The pressure's on because they wouldn't release it unless it beats Gemini 3 in the benchmarks, so we'll see if they've actually pulled it off or if this is just another rushed launch to save face.
Meanwhile, I spent most of the show talking about something I've been noticing more and more - the growing dread in the scientific community about AI coming for their jobs. You've got researchers making posts about how AI can never create novel knowledge or assist in real science, which is just bonkers when you look at what's actually happening with tools like AlphaFold. There's also a Pentagon committee forming to discuss AGI implications for national security, which suggests the government's finally taking this seriously. Not sure if that's reassuring or worrying that they're only just getting around to it now, but here we are.
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00:00 Is AGI Overhyped? The Answer May Surprise You00:13 AI News Update: GPT 5.2 Release Day00:48 AI Is Coming for Scientists' Jobs - The Growing Fear01:41 Q&A: When Is GPT 5.2 Releasing and What's "Garlic"?02:25 GPT 5.2 vs Gemini 3: OpenAI's "Code Red" Response03:14 Pentagon Forms AGI Committee - Why This Matters04:33 Meet the Pentagon's Chief AI Officer - His Background06:34 Q&A: How ChatGPT Memory Works Across Conversations08:33 First AI Model Trained in Space - NanoGPT on StarCloud10:01 Data Centers in Space: Solving AI's Energy Crisis?13:12 China's Electricity Dominance and Why Tech Giants Are Worried15:18 Q&A: Wind Farms, Solar and Nuclear Energy for AI16:23 Scientist Says Don't Cure Cancer Faster If It Means AI Takes Jobs20:22 AlphaFold: How AI Solved Protein Folding in 4 Years24:06 The Ultimate Selfishness: Blocking AI to Save Your Job26:05 Real vs Fake AI Risks: What Pause AI Gets Right32:20 Water Usage, Fast Fashion and AI: Debunking the Myths35:06 Why You Need to Prepare for AI Job Disruption Now36:40 Q&A: When Will We Reach Superintelligence?38:40 Is AGI Overhyped? The Technology vs The Market39:13 Free AI Readiness Resources and Outro
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108: Today in AI: McDonald's Pulls AI Christmas Ad, GPT-5.2 Coming Thursday, Google Stitch Flops

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This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle News and Updates Live Stream’
First aired: 10 December 2025
Summary: McDonald's absolutely faceplanted with their AI-generated Christmas ad for the Netherlands, and honestly, I can see why people were so annoyed. The ad featured AI-generated families experiencing physical comedy mishaps—presents flying off roofs, exploding Christmas trees, the lot—but the whole thing just falls flat because AI can't nail physicality. The physics don't work, the cat falling looks weird, and when you're doing slapstick, you need actual physical comedy to sell it. They pulled it from YouTube after getting absolutely roasted in the comments, but of course, the internet never forgets. I've got a copy and I'll share it in the newsletter so you can judge for yourself. The bigger issue here is the grim use of AI in creative fields, replacing actors and crew just to save money. It's cost-cutting dressed up as innovation, and it's not a use of AI I'm particularly supportive of.
Meanwhile, we're still waiting on GPT-5.2, which looks like it'll drop Thursday following OpenAI's usual release schedule. They've been in "code red" mode since last week with everyone speculating they'd panic-release something, but they seem to be sticking to their timeline. I also had a look at Google's new Stitch tool, which promises to redesign your website using their new model—sounds brilliant in theory. In practice? Absolutely terrible. It completely ignored my actual content, replaced me with some random bloke, invented services I don't offer, and made everything black and white. The promise is cool, but the execution is half-baked, which is classic Google unfortunately. They've shut down 300 products over the years, so this feels like another one destined for the graveyard.
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0:00 Intro - OpenAI Pauses AGI Development0:08 Welcome & Today's AI News Preview0:40 McDonald's AI Christmas Ad Backlash2:14 Why AI in Creative Fields Is Problematic4:09 AI Video Production: Hidden Industry Reality5:17 McDonald's Ad: Cynical Marketing Play?6:08 The Sweet Shop's Response & Public Reaction6:54 Kyle's Take: Good vs Bad Uses of AI8:30 Sergio So's AI Actor Audition Skits9:26 Live Chat: Discussing the McDonald's Ad10:01 Will Smith Spaghetti: AI Video Progress10:42 Why Microsoft Copilot Is Struggling12:30 WSJ Report: Microsoft AI Sales Crisis14:04 Google Gemini vs Microsoft Copilot15:36 Q&A: Microsoft Ecosystem Concerns16:47 Q&A: Best Platforms to Learn Vibe Coding18:46 Free Courses & Paid Accelerators Explained19:00 How to Start Vibe Coding: Step-by-Step21:31 Antigravity: Free Access to Claude Opus 4.522:37 GPT 5.2 "Garlic" - OpenAI's Code Red Response24:12 New OpenAI Image Model Leaked26:23 Image Model: Relaxed Guardrails & Celebrity Gen27:57 Wall Street Journal: Two Models Releasing30:20 Q&A: What Is This Show About?30:35 Google Stitch Demo: Redesign Agent Review33:11 "Killed by Google" - Why Google Products Fail35:10 Newsletter, Community & Free Resources37:09 Closing: Join 10K+ on YouTube
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107: Today in AI: Trump Greenlights Nvidia China Sales, ChatGPT 5.2 Coming, AI Ads Inevitable

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This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle News and Updates Live Stream’
First aired: 9 December 2025
Summary: Trump's done something rather unexpected — he's given Nvidia the green light to sell their H200 chips directly to China, which is a massive reversal from the previous export restrictions. This is genuinely surprising because national security concerns were supposedly the entire reason for blocking these sales in the first place. Jensen Huang's been lobbying hard for this, and it looks like it's worked, though Nvidia still has to cough up 15% of Chinese revenues to the US government, which is frankly just a corporate bribe dressed up in policy language. Meanwhile, Singapore's been buying about 30% of all Nvidia's chips for a country that size, which is... suspicious, shall we say.
On the OpenAI front, we're expecting ChatGPT 5.2 (or possibly 5.5) to drop this week — probably Thursday if they stick to form. Sam Altman put the company into code red mode last week after Gemini 3 rattled them, so they've paused everything else to focus entirely on this release. I also spent a good chunk of the show discussing the inevitable reality that ChatGPT will have to introduce advertising at some point because their current financial model is completely unsustainable. They're burning through billions, and whilst nobody wants ads in their AI chat, it's coming. Google's probably thrilled about this because they can sit back and watch OpenAI take all the heat for going first.
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00:00 ChatGPT Ads Controversy Teaser00:11 Welcome to AI with Kyle00:43 ChatGPT 5 Coming This Week02:44 Trump Allows Nvidia Chip Sales to China08:13 Netflix Buying Warner Bros for AI Training10:56 Why I Don't Cover Microsoft Copilot15:26 My Background & How I Stay Informed17:26 Vibe Marketing for Developers18:26 Build in Public: Jack Friks Case Study22:17 Yoni's 500-Day Content Strategy24:42 Do AI Personas Actually Work? (Ethan Mollick Research)29:46 Will Advertising Kill ChatGPT?32:28 The Yahoo Warning: AI Ads Backlash33:47 Why Google Can Afford to Wait37:04 EU Antitrust Inquiry: Google AI Search39:02 Subscribe & Join the Community
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106: Today in AI: Today in AI: Why Are 69% of Workers Hiding Their AI Use?

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This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle News and Updates Live Stream’
First aired: 8 December 2025
Summary: I spent this stream digging into a fascinating NYU study about AI-generated advertising—turns out AI visuals get 20% more clicks than human-made ones, but only if people don't know it's AI. The moment they realize it's generated, clicks drop 31%. It's a bizarre psychological quirk that reveals our conflicted relationship with this technology. I also covered the thinking game documentary featuring Geoffrey Hinton, which honestly exceeded expectations and gave some surprisingly candid insights on AGI timelines. Plus, there's ongoing speculation about OpenAI's upcoming "Garlic" model meant to beat Gemini 3, though Google's already moved the goalposts with Deep Think.
I used the rest of the time answering questions about AI business ideas and market validation. The key takeaway: just slapping AI onto something doesn't make it valuable. You need to solve real problems before automation matters. Everything from faceless YouTube schemes to proper AI-driven market research came up, and I tried to cut through the noise about what actually creates value versus what's just tech for tech's sake.
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0:00 Workers Are Hiding AI Use From Employers0:11 Welcome to AI with Kyle1:04 Free AI Courses & Newsletter2:15 NYU Study: AI Ads Get 20% More Clicks5:08 EU AI Act & Labeling Laws7:10 ChatGPT Turns 3: Birthday Swag8:00 Wikipedia's AI Detection Guide13:11 Anthropic Study: 69% Hide AI at Work15:45 Are AI Job Fears Valid?16:57 Jobs Are No Longer Low Risk19:12 Building Multiple Income Streams20:48 Q&A: How to Get Employees Using AI24:19 The 8 Levels of AI Proficiency27:14 Demis Hassabis on AGI Timeline31:41 Q&A: AI Market Research Tool Idea33:11 Why AI Alone Isn't a Business34:24 Free Resources & Community
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105: Today in AI: 52% Use Roleplay Apps, Claude Drops Meme Phrase, AI Communities Grow

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This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle News and Updates Live Stream’
First aired: 5 December 2025
Summary: Open Router just dropped a fascinating meta-analysis of 100 trillion tokens, and the results are properly wild. Turns out 52% of AI usage is for creative roleplay and companionship apps. Yes, that includes romantic chatbots and not-safe-for-work stuff. This is the side of AI we don't really talk about in our space—whilst I'm here banging on about productivity and business applications, half the market is having digital companions and writing elaborate fantasy scenarios. Character AI, Janitor AI, Spicy Chat—they're all sitting there in the top consumer apps list alongside ChatGPT and Claude. It's actually mad when you think about it.
In other news, Claude Code has officially killed off the "you are absolutely right" meme. Someone built an entire tracker called Absolutely Right LLL just to measure how often Claude would say it, and since Opus 4.5 dropped, it's flatlined. Bit sad really—I wanted to get a mug made. Also, I'm relaunching my free community for anyone interested in learning how to use AI without feeling overwhelmed. We've got 3000 members already, and I'm adding courses, playbooks, and a five-day AI readiness challenge. No fluff, just trying to help people figure out what on earth to do with all this.
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0:00 Anthropic Dominates AI Coding Market with 60% Share
0:16 Welcome & Free AI Community Announcement
1:03 AI News Roundup: What's Coming Next Week
1:22 Claude's "You Are Absolutely Right" Meme is Dead
2:37 Open Router's 100 Trillion Token Study Reveals AI Usage
3:41 52% of AI Usage is Roleplay & Companionship
4:24 Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps: Who's Winning
6:06 The Hidden AI Companionship Market Nobody Talks About
6:18 DeepSeek's Open Source Dominance is Declining
8:10 Why Anthropic Controls 60% of AI Coding
9:07 Live Q&A: Stream Quality Check
10:00 OpenAI Code Red: Gemini is Winning
11:21 Google Releases Gemini 3 Deep Think Mode
14:27 ChatGPT vs Gemini vs Claude: Which Should You Use?
14:40 Anthropic's New AI Interviewer Survey Tool
16:13 Cristiano Ronaldo Invests in Perplexity AI
17:37 Exploring Perplexity's Wild Ronaldo Fan Page
18:34 Q&A: Gemini's Random Language Switching Bug
19:18 Best AI Communities to Join in 2025
19:45 Sabrina's Discord for Female AI Entrepreneurs
20:13 DeepLearning.AI Community for Technical Learning
21:02 Learn AI Together: 90K Member Discord
21:35 Marin's 21-Day AI Builder Challenge (Paid)
22:27 Relaunching My Free AI Community
23:40 Free Courses, Playbooks & 5-Day AI Challenge
24:34 Final Q&A Session
25:29 Newsletter, Community & Wrap-Up
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104: Today in AI: ChatGPT Ads Hit Paid Users, DeepSeek Rivals GPT-4 for Pennies, Claude Limits Anger

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First aired: 4 December 2025
Summary: OpenAI found themselves in a bit of a pickle this week when paid ChatGPT users started seeing what looked suspiciously like ads in their chats. Someone was asking about Windows BitLocker and suddenly got served a Target shopping ad at the bottom of his conversation—despite paying $20 a month for Plus. OpenAI's Chief Research Officer jumped in to clarify these aren't actually ads, they're "apps" from pilot partners like Target and Peloton, meant to augment the user experience. But here's the thing: if it looks like an ad, smells like an ad, and interrupts your conversation to suggest you go shopping... it's probably an ad, regardless of what corporate terminology you dress it up in.
Meanwhile, China's DeepSeek dropped their 3.2 model that's performing at GPT-4 levels whilst costing about 1/20th the price—which is genuinely impressive and a bit concerning for Western AI companies. And in Claude news, Opus 4.5 has finally rolled out to Pro users in Claude Code, though the rate limits are so restrictive that one prompt might be your lot for the week. It's brilliant when you can use it, but forcing paying customers to switch to competitors mid-task because you've run out of capacity is still a massive product design flaw, no matter how good the model is.
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00:00 Cold Open: Google's Ad-Free Strategy
00:15 Welcome to AI with Kyle
01:14 Nano Banana Pro 2K Images Update
03:12 ChatGPT Ads Controversy Explained
08:04 Why Google Should Run Gemini at a Loss
16:53 What is Garlic? OpenAI Code Red Explained
19:17 Why AI Benchmarks Are Meaningless
20:07 Sam Altman's Death Star Meme Explained
22:16 ChatGPT Erotica & Age Gating Policy
25:06 Cursor Composer Review
26:34 Intelligence vs User Experience in AI
28:39 What Search Engines Power AI Chatbots?
32:17 Claude Uses Brave Search (Confirmed)
34:04 Do LLMs Hide Their True Thoughts?
35:08 Claude Opus 4.5 for Pro Users
36:07 Claude Rate Limits Problem
36:41 Newsletter & Community
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103: Today in AI: OpenAI Code Red vs Gemini, Mistral Launch Flops, Market Dynamics Shift

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This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle News and Updates Live Stream’
First aired: 3 December 2025
Summary: OpenAI is having a bit of a moment, and not the good kind. Sam Altman's sent out an internal memo declaring "code red" after Gemini 3 and Claude Opus absolutely spanked them in performance. They've paused everything—ads, AI agents, even that health assistant thing—to refocus entirely on making ChatGPT the best chatbot in the world again. It's quite the reversal considering they've had free reign for the last couple years whilst Google played catch-up. Now the tables have turned and suddenly they're the ones scrambling. They're promising a new reasoning model next week that'll supposedly blow Gemini out of the water, but we'll see about that. The broader picture here is fascinating though, because we're watching the market dynamics shift in real time. Google can afford to keep everything free indefinitely—they've got that sweet advertising money—which could be genuinely anti-competitive if they just wait for OpenAI to collapse under their own costs. Add in the Chinese models offering basically the same thing for pennies on the API, and suddenly those 2026 IPO plans look a lot less attractive. It's going to be messy, and whatever landscape we're looking at now won't be the same in a couple years. Also, I finally watched The Thinking Game documentary about DeepMind and it's absolutely brilliant—even my girlfriend got riveted by it, which says something.
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00:00 Cold Open: Google's AI Monopoly Strategy
00:13 Welcome & Today's AI News Rundown
00:51 OpenAI Declares Code Red: What Happened
04:17 OpenAI's Key Upgrade Areas & Refusal Issues
05:39 ChatGPT vs Nano Banana Pro Image Generation
07:53 OpenAI's Competition Problem: Google, Anthropic & DeepSeek
09:09 Why ChatGPT Images Have a Yellow "Piss Filter"
15:18 Live Q&A: Why People Are Leaving ChatGPT
17:52 Privacy Concerns: Google vs OpenAI Data Handling
18:57 Q&A: ChatGPT 5.2 "Garlic" & Claude's Focus
19:45 Anthropic Plans IPO for 2026 Before OpenAI
21:53 Mistral 3 Review: Europe's AI Model Falls Short
23:34 Ministrel 3B: AI Running 100% In Your Browser
26:39 Europe vs US vs China: The AI Race Reality
29:38 Google's Amazon Playbook to Kill OpenAI
33:34 What This Means For Your AI Use Today
34:10 The Thinking Game: DeepMind Documentary Review
37:08 Outro: Newsletter, YouTube & Community
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