AI News: 28 Headlines No One Expected

So you'd think every AI company out there would be gearing up to take a nice long relaxing holiday break, but no. Instead, this week they chose violence. There was so much news this week and I want to make sure that you are completely looped in on everything that's going on. So hold on to your papers, fellow scholars, because this is going to be one of the biggest rapid fire news videos I've ever done, starting with the brand new image model out of OpenAI. This week they launched a GPT image 1.5 both inside ChatGPT and in the API for developers in order to compete with the state of the art model that Google released called Nano Banana Pro. Now this was probably the biggest news of the week, but I actually already did a full breakdown video of this news along with side by side comparisons of both Nano Banana and the GPT Image 1.5 model. And since we have so much other stuff that I want to cover this week, I'm not going to actually dive into that model. Instead I'm going to point you to my existing video to get all of those details. But that wasn't the only new image editing model that we got this week. Black Forest Labs also released a brand new model called Flux 2 Max this week and this is one that I actually haven't tested yet, so let's try it out. This Flux 2 Max model also appears to be a model trying to compete with Nano Banana and the new JPT image 1.5 because it is a model that is designed for not only generating images but also editing images. Some of the examples on their website show it putting logos on products like this Boarding Pass Coffee here, doing iterative editing where you start with one image, you add that image with another image, add it with another image and you can keep on iterating and it remembers the original context. Something that when I tested with Nano Banana it struggled with, but GPT 5.1 actually did pretty decent with. It also has grounded image generation similar to nanobanana where it looks like it'll actually research what's supposed to go in the image and then add what it researched in for you and it understands how to change the style of your images to various types of other styles and there's a lot more examples on the Flux page. I figured I'd give it a test with a few of the same prompts that I tested Nano banana and GPT 1.5 on. So for the first one I gave it this image which is the same image I gave the other models in my previous Video and I gave it the prompt. Using the uploaded photo of me, remove the person standing on my right while keeping my face, pose, lighting and background exactly the same. I'm the one in the Padres shirt. Change my outfit to a black leather jacket and add a subtle neon rim lighting behind me. Do not change my facial structure or expression. And well, yeah, in this one, it sort of made like a hybrid version of me and Joe and it removed me from the right. So the one thing I asked it to do is remove the person to the right of me and. And it removed me and left the person to the right and kind of made like a love child between the two or something. And pretty much none of the other outputs did a whole lot better at following my instructions. Just as a quick reminder, here's what ChatGPT did. It put the purple glow around me, left me in the same spot. Remove the people to the right of me. It mostly followed the directions. Flux. On the other hand, same image, same same prompt, not quite the same result. This was an interesting test that I did with the other models as well. Create a white canvas divided into nine uneven rectangles like a magazine layout. Top left, steaming cup of coffee. Top right, folded city map. Center left, pair of headphones. Center right, glowing light bulb. Bottom center, red notebook. Each object must stay fully inside its rectangle and not overlap any borders. So we can already see here that it screwed up the nine uneven rectangles because I'm only seeing five rectangles. Maybe you can argue six rectangles if you consider this one here. So got the number wrong already. Top left, steaming cup of coffee. Yeah. Top right, folded city map. This looks like an unfolded map. Center left, pair of headphones. Center right, glowing light bulb. Bottom center, red notebook. No overlaps. Just as a reminder, here's what OpenAI's model did. I asked it for nine uneven rectangles. It gave me 10. For whatever reason, it put everything in the right spot, but it also ignored my last instruction. Each object must stay fully inside the rectangle because as we can see, the notebook. It was like the model was testing me a little bit. It was like he said, stay inside the lines. Let's put it like on the line, see if that works. So yeah, the new flux model seems like a pretty okay model. Not quite up to par with Nano banana or the OpenAI model, but another option to test if those other two models aren't doing it for you. Now moving from images to audio. Meta rolled out a version of their SAM or Segment Anything model for audio so if you're familiar with the segment Anything models, you give it an image or a video and you can type in a text and say, highlight the train or remove the train or add effects to the trains. Well, it does the same thing with audio now, where you can give it an audio file and say, just isolate the speaking. Just isolate the guitar. Things like that. So I wanted to give it a test, and it is available to test for free right now over inside of Meta's playground. You can find it@aidemos.meta.com and I actually created a song with. I wanted to make sure I wasn't using any copyrighted music. So this is a generated song. Here's a real quick clip of it. Click the button, don't hesitate. And we can see over here. I can just type what I want it to isolate. So let's isolate guitars. Now I'll click Isolate sound. And we can see that it split it out so we've got an isolated sound and without the isolated sound. So if we listen for just the guitars, let's hear what it sounds like. So it completely cut out all the vocals and any other instruments that were there. I can also listen to the version where it took the guitars out completely. So that's what this sounds like. Click the button. Don't hesitate. AI news at your front gate. Faster than a. So we hear the drums kick in and the bass kick in and all the other instruments, but the guitar is gone. We broke it out into a separate track. I can also add some effects to this guitar if I want. I don't think they're going to sound great, but I could like. Let's add a megaphone to the guitar. Yeah, it didn't really make a difference. Let's add some extra reverb. Yeah, I'm not really noticing the difference very much on this music. However, it's also good at isolating other things. So if I come back to my Meta playground, click on Isolate sounds. They've got some other examples here, like these two people speaking on a podcast where they gave it a video. Here's what it sounds like by default. They were here with Phoenix, our local sound editor. Thank you for everything that you do. Let's have it. Just isolate male vocals. We'll isolate that sound and ideally it'll give us just his vocals. And here's what we get with that. They were here with Phoenix, our local sound editor. Thank you for everything that you do. So tell us a little bit more about the space and how that relates to film, what you've been learning and we can see it cut out her audio when she starts speaking. That audio would be on the without isolated sound. So now we'll see that he'll look like he's talking but no audio is coming out. And then when we fast forward to where she jumps in, we should hear her jump in. I've learned a lot about the so pretty cool thing, especially if you're like a podcaster or you make music. A handy little tool to go and start isolating individual audio elements. We've been able to do it with images and videos and now Meta has an audio version. Pretty sweet. Vibe Coding AI Apps just got a lot easier. This new AI tool that's literally called Vibe Code lets you build AI powered apps apps and ship them straight to the App Store all on your phone. You just open up the app, pinch the screen and it drops you into this cap cut like builder where you can describe the app you want and cloud code will build that app right there. Within the Vibe Code app, you can also generate assets like images, sounds and haptics and place them into your app. Heck, you can even add a paywall so you can make money from your new app. And when you're done, you can ship it straight to the Apple App Store from your phone with just one tap. It's really that easy. So if you want to try it for yourself, you can build your first three apps for free using the Code Wolf. You can check it out at the link in the description. And thank you so much to Vibe Code for sponsoring this portion of today's video. All right, so we talked about image models, we talked about audio models. Now let's talk about video models. Because there was a lot of movement in the video model world this week. Let's check it out. Starting with the fact that Adobe Firefly now supports prompt based video editing. So theoretically we can edit a video in Firefly and say remove this person, add this sound effect, add this glow around the person, things like that. I don't know exactly what it's capable of yet, I haven't tested it. But theoretically we can give text prompts to edit a video now. So obviously all video editors are doomed and will no longer have a job. They ask you how you are, you just have to say that you're fine. So let's jump into Adobe Firefly here. This is another one I have not played with yet. And we can see inside of Firefly. We have Edit Video Beta. Let's jump into here and we can create a new project or upload media. So let's upload media. I'm going to give it this video. Oh my gosh, you're so cute. Obviously an AI generated video, but it's easy for me to work with. Here's their video editor. Let's see how do I do text based editing? And now once I'm in the editor here, if I look up on the right, there's a little button that says text based editing. I will click this and it notices. It says, oh my gosh, you're so cute. So can I actually change what it says so I can correct transcript, add text to timeline, assign speaker, or delete? So it's very, very basic editing. It's literally editing the text to cut out things. So if I want it to say just like, oh my, you're so cute, and I get rid of gosh, let's see how it edited that. Oh my, you're so cute. So you can see it cut out the gosh. It doesn't seem to have like a ton of editing features. You can just sort of edit the text to cut things right now. But you're able to do that directly inside of Firefly, which is pretty cool. And I imagine they'll add more AI editing features over time. Let's see what happens if I click on generation settings. Describe the video you want to generate. So this is just for generating video, not for editing video. So that's the very basic text editor inside of Firefly right now. The company Luma AI also rolled out a new AI video model this week called Ray 3 Modify. Now this one seemingly lets you give it video inputs plus a starting frame and ending frame. And you can change the video based on the starting and ending frame. So like it's actually a real human sort of driving the action. But then you reskin it with something else. Like we could see in these demos where there was no crowd, they rescanned it with a crowd, changes person's hair color, things like that. So the first thing I tested was I gave it this starting frame that you can see up here. Maybe we can zoom in on it because I know it's tiny, but it's this image of me, my buddy Joe and my buddy Brad, all standing in a brewery. And then I gave it this image of me with like the purple glow around it and the leather jacket that I created in a previous video and told it to animate between those two. And this is what we got. We could see they walk away. And then I weirdly put on this jacket and my arm kind of goes through the sleeve weirdly, but that's what it did with the start and end frame. But I wanted to test with a driving video, which unfortunately I had to upgrade. So you actually have to pay if you want to use a driving video. So I fed it this video of me playing with a lightsaber inside of my office here, along with this image that I generated in Leonardo of a pirate holding a sword, hoping that it would take the animation of me playing with the sword and apply it to the pirate. But what it did instead was as soon as it gets to about the 10 second mark, it changes my lightsaber to a sword, but then sort of just crossfades to the pirate. So it didn't really use my video as the driving animation for the pirate. But here's how you do it. If you're in Luma Dream Machine, you click on boards here, create a new board down in the bottom right. Make sure you're set on modify, make sure video is selected, and make sure array three is selected. This is the brand new model here. Now you can upload a video. I'll give it my pirate video here. It's going to crop it to 10 seconds for me and then it gives me the option for start frame, modify frame, character reference, image, et cetera. So let's go ahead and set the character reference to our pirate here once again. And also let's set the pirate as our start frame. We'll plug this in right here. So now our start frame should be this pirate. My video with the lightsaber is our driving video. And then also the pirate as the character reference. We can also adjust the strength here. I'll just leave it in the middle because I don't really totally know what it's going to do yet. And hopefully this is better than my first test. And after waiting for 10 minutes or so, because it was taking forever, I got Generation failed. It looked like it was working. I was seeing some like, animations going. But Generation failed after 10 minutes, which is frustrating because I am a paying customer. My guess, because it's brand new, it's getting overwhelmed right now. It's overloaded. And after waiting another 10 minutes, I finally got this. And it's okay. Yeah, I mean, it followed my motion and it applied it to this guy. There's definitely wonkiness with the sword where it kind of disappears and there's some weird artifacts. But I finally got a driving video to animate an image that I added in this second try. I removed the avatar and just uploaded my video and the starting frame without having a specific avatar attached. And that seemed to do the trick. Again, I don't know the best practices, but it seems pretty cool once we get it right. I mean, there's some pretty decent detail in these, like, ropes and things as well. So it's. It's pretty impressive. I just wish it wasn't so slow, and I wish there was better instructions so I wouldn't have had to wait 10 minutes to learned that it failed, because that's really annoying. But we got there eventually. But I'm not done yet. Cling rolled out some new features, including motion control. So they have a newly upgraded motion control in their cling video 2.6 model, which is basically like a motion capture inside of Cling. It can detect full body motions with fast and complex actions, Flawless hand moves, expressive faces. You can give it a driving video, and you can give it an image. And it will use the driving video and animate the image in the same way, theoretically. So let's test it. So this was a test that I did with their previous version. Didn't really work very well. I figured, let's try it again. I gave it this video. I then also gave it this image that I generated in Leonardo of a Jedi holding a lightsaber. I did not pair it up with a text prompt. I just gave it the driving video and the image. And here's what it generated for us. It works a hell of a lot better than it used to. That is for sure. Still some wonkiness, but it's definitely a lot better than it was last time. Cling also rolled out a voice control inside of their cling video 2.6. So here's an example of what that could look like, and it is a very, very impressive lip sync. So check this out. Is that my voice? This one feels soft. This one feels power. I can even sing again and again. It looks really, really good. That's one of the better lip syncs I've seen. But when I log into Cling, I don't actually know how to use this. So I can see they've got their Avatar 2.0 model here. And if I hover over one of these, it's not great. Sharing my favorite lip gloss I wear to work. I'm just setting my base with some fave loose powder. See that? Smooth, soft, and totally ready to slay. So that lip sync does not look like the lip sync we just saw in their demo. Now, they did say it was in video 2.6. So if I go to the video model here and I go text to video. We have the option for native audio. So I guess let me just try a prompt where somebody is talking to the camera. So I give it the prompt. A man looks into the camera and says, don't forget to subscribe to Matt Wolf. And here's what that looks like. Don't forget to subscribe to Matt Wolf. I mean, yeah, that's pretty good. So the, the cling video 2.6, if you tell it to add speaking, it looks pretty dang good again. I feel like I'm beating a dead horse here. But best lip syncing I've seen so far from one of these AI models. We also got a new video model out of Alibaba called Wand 2.6. This one is very similar to what we just looked at with Cling because you can give it reference videos and you can give it images and it will animate the images using the reference videos. It's also got native audio video syn turn simple prompts into auto storyboarded multi shot videos. It looks like a really cool model. So let's see if we can test this Juan out. See what I did there? Nah. Yo, hold my poodle. Hold my poodle. If we go to Juan Video, we have first frame, last frame, sound driven. So we can start with an audio file. It looks like most of the really cool stuff I've been seeing people do with this new Wand 2.6 model. They've mostly done with the like open version using Comfy ui. So I'm not sure if I can actually start with a driving video or not. Let's make it starring Santa here. So it's got that similar like cameo feature to like what Sora has. And let's make him jumping up and down yelling, yay, Christmas is here. And well, not the fastest model in the world as we can see, but with the power of editing, here's what it generated for us. Yay, Christmas is here. Yay, Christmas is here. And finally, in the last bit of AI Video news, I want to make an addendum to what I talked about last week. I mentioned the new Runway ML 4.5 model and I mentioned that it doesn't generate audio. However, I've been seeing reports from like TechCrunch here that says it adds native audio to its latest video model. So I went, did I miss something? And I jumped back in and generated another video. And well, it still didn't generate any audio with the video, but supposedly I'm seeing reports that it can do audio. It just isn't for me or I'm missing something. I don't know. If you know how to use audio in Gen 4.5, let me know in the comments because I don't know. It's not obvious to me. Now, I mentioned that there was a lot of news that rolled out this week and I've just started to scratch the surface. I still have a ton more I want to share, but instead of breaking them all down in depth, let's jump into a rapid fire. Most of this video is going to be pretty rapid fire, but here we go. Pew, pew, pew. Let's do it. Starting with a handful of news out of OpenAI this week, developers can now submit apps to chat GPT. So if I look inside my settings inside of Chat GPT here and I click on apps, you know, by default there's Adobe Express, Canva, Figma, Gmail, and you know quite a bit more. Well, the ability to create apps is no longer just going to be for these big companies. Apparently anybody can now create apps and submit them for approval to ChatGPT. Now, they're not automatically going to be approved. OpenAI does have some guidelines that you do need to stay within and they will need to approve it before it goes live. But it sounds like ChatGPT is finally getting around to making that kind of like app store of ChatGPT. If you're a user of ChatGPT on your phone, whether you use it on iOS or Android or. Well, the branching feature that we've had available inside of the browser version is now also available in the mobile version. So quick Quality of Life update if you use the mobile version. Oh yeah. They also announced that in Q1 of 2026 we're going to get adult mode. So essentially it's slowly turning into Grok, where it'll talk dirty to you or something. Google Labs showed off a new product called CC this week. It's a new productivity agent that connects Gmail, calendar and drive to deliver personalized briefings every morning. So this is kind of what a briefing looks like here. It got sent to their email and it says here's the game plan for the day. And all of the details that are in this game plan were pulled from their calendar, their Gmail and their Google Drive. Now you can join the wait list to use this. Right now, it only will work inside of personal accounts. So if you have a Google business account, it's not there yet. It's just personal accounts. And one thing that I feel like Google should do is make this feature Available for multiple Google accounts. I doubt the only one out there that uses multiple Google accounts, right? I have like probably four different Google accounts that I use. One is purely for personal, that only friends and family know. One is a business account where like sponsors and various business inquiries come through. One is for future tools where people can submit bugs and things like that. I have multiple Gmail accounts, multiple Google calendars, multiple Google Drive accounts. This CC thing would be really cool if I could connect them to like all of them and it pulls the information from all of them. Because right now I can't even pull details from my main Gmail or my main calendar because those are business accounts, not personal accounts. But I want it to be able to pull in all of the information I need on a daily basis, not from just one Google account. Again, I could be an outlier, but I'm pretty sure I'm not. I think most people have multiple Google accounts now. This news was last week, but I forgot to mention it. Matt missed some AI news last week so he's gonna talk about it right now. Oh. Google also improved their text to speech model. Their brand new Gemini 2.5 text to speech model has enhanced expressivity, precision, pacing and seamless dialogue. Theoretically you should get it to sound like the Notebook LM podcast if you wanted to because I think this is the same underlying technology. You can actually play with the Gemini 2.5 text to speech model inside of OpenAI's playground here. Aistudio.google.com and here's a quick example of what this could sound like with two different speakers. Hello. We're excited to show you our native speech capabilities where you can direct a voice, create realistic dialogue and so much more. Edit these placeholders to get started. I think you get the idea. I don't need to edit the placeholders. Interesting though is you can hear a little bit of noise in the background. I don't know if I'm hearing it just because I'm wearing headphones or if it was very clear, but there was a little bit of like background crackly noise to it. But. But if you want to get something that sounds similar to like a notebook LM kind of podcast, you can actually create multi speaker audios for free right now with AI Studio and their new text to speech model. Pretty sweet. Google also rolled out a new feature in their deep research which now actually creates like visuals for the content that it created with the deep research. So in this example video you can see it goes and does the deep research. It generates these reports with Graphs and charts and things like that, all built into the sort of output that it gives you with deep research here. Now this one I believe is only available to Ultra subscribers right now, Google AI Ultra subscribers. So you have to be on their $250 a month plan to get this feature. But I think it's only a matter of time before it rolls out into the lower tier plans and you can do deep research and generate cool graphs and charts and reports and stuff. There was also a ton of new large language models released this week, including one from Google. They released Gemini 3 Flash. So a few weeks ago we got Gemini 3. Well, the Flash model is just a much faster to use and much more compute efficient model. I don't think you have any idea how fast I really am. Here's all the benchmarks if you're curious, but we can see the cost Difference is a fourth for Flash versus Gemini 3 Pro. And the output price for tokens is also about 25% of the cost, so quite a bit cheaper to use. And when you compare its results on the benchmarks, it's actually pretty close to Gemini 3 Pro here in a lot of the benchmarks. Humanity's last exam. Pretty close. Arc AGI, Google Proof, Question and answers like almost right on. So as we can see, it is a fast, cheap model that almost does as well as Gemini 3, saying that I have heard reports that it hallucinates quite a bit more than other models. So if you are going to use it, double check your work unless you're using it for like creative purposes. This person even managed to make a version of like Bust a move using this Gemini 3 flash and it looks pretty dang good. So pretty impressive model. Once again, just be careful when you're using these faster, cheaper models because they do tend to have more issues with accuracy. Now this model's rolling out globally right now. It is also rolling out in the API. So if you're a developer you can use it. They're rolling it out in the Gemini app. So if you use the Gemini app on your mobile phone, you'll have this model available in there. And it looks like it's also becoming the default AI mode in Google Search. So when you use Google Search, it's most likely going to be using Gemini 3 flash when you see the sort of like AI mode and the AI results. But we also got another model out of OpenAI, a coding model called GPT 5.2 Codex. They claim it's the most advanced agent coding model for professional software engineering and defensive cybersecurity so it's a version of GPT 5.2 which launched like what, last week or the week before? I don't know. Launched recently but more fine tuned and designed for coding. We can see it's slightly more accurate than GPT 5.2 on the software engineering bench and slightly outperforms GPT 5.2 on terminal bench. So if you use AI for vibe coding, this is another model that you can try out. Taking a quick peek at lmore arena here, it appears that Opus 4.5 is still the top model with 5.2 high just barely behind it. Nvidia released a new family of models called Nemotron 3. There's a Nano model, a Supermodel and an Ultra model. The Nano model is meant to be a fast, cost efficient model, but probably is the least accurate of the three, where Ultra is a large parameter model that's going to be much more accurate but also slower and more expensive. But one thing that's important about these models is that they are open models. So these are ones you can actually install and run locally or run them in the cloud yourself. Fine tune them, do whatever you want with them. As always, I will link up to the blog post below. So if you want to dive in and learn even more about these individual models that I'm talking about, you can click the links and get all the details that I'm skipping over. There's a new model out of Xiaomi, I think that's that's pronounced called Mimo V2 flash. This is another open source model and it excels in reasoning, coding and agentic scenarios. A lot of these models are really, really honing in on trying to be good for agent scenarios. We can see here in the benchmarks how the orange MIMO model compares to Deepseek v3.2, Kimi K2, Clodsonic 4.5 GPT5 High and Gemini 3.0. This basically shows that it's fairly on par with those models. It doesn't really seem to beat out most of them other than in SWE Bench multilingual, but see that it's pretty on par with some of the state of the art models, which is amazing for an open model. And in the last bit of LLM news, Manus released Manus 1.6. According to their press release, it introduces three major leaps forward their Manus 1.6 max, which is their most powerful agent mobile development for building beyond the web and Design view for interactive image creation. I honestly admittedly haven't spent a ton of time with Manus. I played with it a little bit with when it first launched, but haven't spent a ton of time with it since then. I think it's about time pretty soon to give it another go, possibly in a video where we compare a whole bunch of the various agents that are available right now. So subscribe to this channel if you'd like to see a video like that. All right, moving along and away from LLM news, this is actually also news from last week, but I missed it in the roundup. I missed some AI news last week. So he's gonna talk about it right now, and that's that. This company, Star Cloud, is training its first AI model in space as the orbital data center race heats up. So here's what's going on. All of these companies need a lot more compute than what they have. We only have so much land and so much water here on Earth for cooling these data centers that they think that the best solution is let's put the data centers up in space. One of the suggestions says they'll have like 80 of these, like data center satellites, lights, all fairly clustered together, communicating to each other via lasers. Kind of like this net up in the sky, powered by AI. Where have I heard that before? Let's pray to God this works. Skynet defense system now activated. Anyway, the idea is that, well, space is cold and we can have these data center satellites always be in a position where the sun is hitting them, meaning unlimited power. There's just a few problems with that, one of which I think Hank Green here sort of spells out pretty well. He says, hey, so I've several times that space is a good place for AI data centers because it will help manage heat. And I feel like I've heard it from credible people. But vacuums are famously insulating, and in order to get power, the data centers will need to be in the sun, which is famously hot. I feel like I'm going crazy. What am I missing here? I don't think he's missing anything. I do think there's a big issue with putting satellites up there that are always visible to the sun and have very little way to dissipate the heat off of the the data centers that are floating around in space. So I still think there's quite a few of engineering hurdles that need to be figured out before this actually feels viable. I also came across this article on the Verge, which has even more skepticism towards this idea. Another issue. The group of satellites would need to travel through millions of pieces of space debris or a minefield of random objects, each moving at 17,000 miles per hour. The space debris is especially concentrated in popular orbits like like the sun synchronous orbit. Dodging each object requires a tiny propulsion to move out of the way. In order to generate that propulsion, well, it needs fuel anyway. It's an interesting, very futuristic sounding idea. But a lot of like scientists, engineers and astronomers are all saying it's probably not as close as we all think to being a very viable solution. Anyway, missed that story last week. Wanted to give my 2 cents on it this week. Also this week Microsoft released Trellis 2. This is a model that takes takes images and turns them into 3D models. We could see some examples in their video here of the types of 3D models it spit out. And I mean they're definitely the most realistic 3D models I've seen so far in like a image to 3D pipeline. Like this is definitely the best we've seen so far, at least from their sort of cherry picked examples in their demo. So I jumped over to their demo on Hugging Face and gave it this image of like the, this futuristic Canon thing. It was actually one of their example images, but easy enough. And here's what it created. I could see different variations here. Interestingly, I can't like click on it and sort of rotate it to see the various 3D angles. But I can drag this around and it will rotate it for me, but it only rotates it sort of on a horizontal plane. I can't like rotate it in every which direction. But the details that it gets us are again, I'm beating a dead horse. Really good. All right, moving on to Amazon News. They actually have an online chatbot like ChatGPT where you can go and talk to your, you know this app. Now it's exclusively for Alexa plus customers right now, but here's what it looks like when you get into it. It's basically a chatbot like ChatGPT, but you can talk to your Amazon device. I'm just trying to avoid saying this word to not trigger yours in your house. Now I believe they're using the Anthropic model, but don't quote me on that. I'm not 100% sure. I just know they've made huge investments into Anthropic. Let's see what it knows about me. Matt Wolf's a multifaceted American entrepreneur who's made quite a name for himself in the AI and digital marketing space. He's best known as the creator of Future Tools, a popular platform that curates and organizes AI tools and news. Yeah, I mean, Nick got it right. Recognition and awards Featured in Edelman's AI creators, you need to know. YouTube Creator Award, 100,000 subscribers. TubeBuddy Emerging Creator. AW the co host of Hustle and Flowchart. That's old news, but yes. Current projects, Future tools, next wave, YouTube. I mean, it's really accurate. They did really good job. I don't know who these people are. Those aren't me. Since we're talking about Amazon though, if you have a ring, you'll soon be able to have AI talk with guests at your door. So Amazon's AI can now answer your ring doorbell and talk to visitors for you. The Greetings combines conversational AI with rings video descriptions to intelligently handle doorbell interactions. You can have IT manage deliveries when you're occupied, handle interruptions gracefully, help friends and family when you're not available, or stay in the know while you're away. This will be interesting. I don't know if I want AI talking to people that come to my door, but I also think it'd be fun to have AI screwing with people when they come to my door. So maybe I will. I don't know. I just thought it was interesting and worth sharing. The French company Mistral released OCR3, which is currently the best OCR model available. That stands for for Optical character recognition. It's basically a fancy way of saying we take handwritten text and turn it into typed text. Well, this OCR3 is now the best model available. Probably not the most interesting thing to most people, but I created a journaling app where I wanted to be able to type journal entries or handwrite journal entries. And it's got OCR built into it. So I'm probably gonna be swapping out the existing OCR with this new OCR model to get even more accurate it with my handwritten journaling that goes into my journal app. So I'm excited about it. Here's another cool update out of Meta that I thought was worth sharing. The Meta AI glasses now have a feature called Conversation Focus. They also added Spotify integration. But the Conversation Focus is what's really interesting to me. It's basically a feature where if you're in a loud environment and you're wearing your glasses, it will amplify the person you're talking to. So it helps the user focus on the conversation that they're currently having, even when in noisy environments. I think that'll be a pretty good quality of life feature for these glasses. I think that'll be handy and in our final bit of AI news in this week, that was already a pretty epic week in terms of volume of news. The 2025 Word of the year from Webster's Dictionary is slop. So, yay, we did it. We got one of our AI slop words to be the word of the year. We define slop as digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence. We got a lot of slop this year. We said the word slop a lot this year. And, well, slop is pretty much in everybody's lexicon now because of AI, so makes sense. I can get behind slop being the 2025 word of the year. Anyway, I'm out of breath. There was a lot to talk about this week, and I think we kind of covered it all. If I missed anything, let me know in the comments. I always want to know what I missed. And if it's something huge, I'll make sure it gets mentioned in the next video. Also, I noticed in the comments, people were asking me about, like, this little picture frame I have here. This is actually all of my, like, selfies and images from conferences. So anytime I've gone to a conference and got a selfie with somebody and they posted it online, I grabbed those selfies and I put them on this frame. So if you ever meet me in person and we get a picture together, it'll probably end up on this little frame circulating in the background of my videos. That's what's going on there. But what a week. I really thought December would slow down and, well. Well, December seemed to ramp up. Next week's gonna be a slower week. I'm gonna put out a news video at the end of the week, most likely on Sunday, just due to my editors needing Christmas off and stuff. But there will be a news video next week. That'll be the only video I release next week. I am taking a break for most of the week. Hopefully you enjoyed this one. Hopefully you feel looped in. I will loop you in again next week. And if you want to stay looped in yourself, I say looped a lot. Make sure you subscribe to this channel. Like this video. That'll ensure more videos like this one one show up in your YouTube feed. But it's been a crazy week and I am done reporting on the news until next week. And there should be a lot less to talk about. I don't think companies are going to release stuff on Christmas, but we'll find out next week. So, again, like, subscribe. Do all the things and hopefully I'll see you in the next one. Thanks for nerding out with me. Bye bye. Thank you so much for nerding out with me today. If you like videos like this, make sure to give it a thumbs up and subscribe to this video channel. I'll make sure more videos like this show up in your YouTube feed. And if you haven't already, check out Futurtools IO where I share all the coolest AI tools and all the latest AI news. And there's an awesome free newsletter. Thanks again. Really appreciate you. See you in the next one.