What the Freakiness of 2025 in AI Tells Us About 2026
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
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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…
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Chapters (16)
Introduction
0:34
Reasoning Models … and limits
2:54
A playable world
3:36
Realism
3:50
AI Slop gone mainstream
5:03
DolphinGemma
5:39
Public Mood
7:34
AI Enlisted
8:30
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
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