What the Freakiness of 2025 in AI Tells Us About 2026
By AI Explained
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It’s probably not possible to satisfactorily condense a 12 month’s worth of weird progress in AI, as well as predictions for the year to come, into one video. But I’m gonna try anyway because it has been a very strange time. http://matsprogram.org/s26-aie My new app! https://lmcouncil.ai Patreon Interview: https://www.patreon.com/posts/robot-in-your-27-146376094 Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 00:34 - Reasoning Models … and limits 02:54 - A playable world 03:36 - Realism 03:50 - AI Slop gone mainstream 05:03 - DolphinGemma 05:39 - Public Mood 07:34 - AI Enlisted 08:30 - GPT-5 11:05 - Open Weight not out 13:00 - METR Breakout 17:30 - VASA-1 18:28 - Lateral Productivity 20:15 - 1 or 1000 benchmarks needed? 24:54 - Continual Learning + Altman on Superintelligence 28:08 - Automated Information Discovery ft AlphaEvolve Hassabis on Generality: https://x.com/demishassabis/status/2003097405026193809 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqVbypvxDto Gemini 3: https://storage.googleapis.com/gw
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