Everyday AI Podcast – An AI and ChatGPT Podcast - Ep 719: Google Gemini 3.1 tops charts, Claude Sonnet 4.6 impresses, New OpenAI leaks reveal their massive AI hardware plans and more

Episode Date: February 23, 2026

✅ Two major model releases from Google and Anthropic ✅ The usual AI drama ✅ Surprising AI updates no one saw coming ✅ AI leaks and reports that if true, could change how we workYeah, there was a lot to follow this week in AI. If you missed anything, we've got you covered. Google Gemini 3.1 tops charts, Claude Sonnet 4.6 impresses, New OpenAI leaks reveal their massive AI hardware plans and more -- An Everyday AI Chat with Jordan WilsonNewsletter: Sign up for our free daily newsletterMore on this Episode: Episode PageJoin the discussion on LinkedIn: Thoughts on this? Join the convo on LinkedIn and connect with other AI leaders.Upcoming Episodes: Check out the upcoming Everyday AI Livestream lineupWebsite: YourEverydayAI.comEmail The Show: [e-mail] with Jordan on LinkedInTopics Covered in This Episode:Anthropic Revenue Growth vs OpenAI ProjectionsOpenAI’s 2030 Hardware and Revenue PlansOpenAI and Anthropic Beef at India SummitAI Global Summit: New Delhi Declaration OverviewGoogle Gemini 3.1 Pro Three-Tier Reasoning SystemGemini 3.1 Pro Benchmark and Performance ScoreClaude Sonnet 4.6 Release and Benchmark ResultsAnthropic Model Tier Comparisons: Haiku, Sonnet, OpusGoogle Pameli Photoshoot AI for Product ImagesAI Job Automation Concerns: Andrew Yang AnalysisOpenAI Consumer Hardware: Speaker, Glasses, LightWeekly AI Model Updates and Feature RolloutsTimestamps:00:00 "Anthropic vs OpenAI Revenue Race"04:00 Anthropic vs OpenAI Revenue Battle07:39 Anthropic's API Usage Decline11:03 AI Summit Sparks Debate and Criticism16:37 "Gemini 3.1 Pro Dominates Benchmarks"18:23 "Google's Edge in AI Race"20:56 "SONNET 4.6 Outperforms Opus"24:13 "Google's AI Photoshoot Tool"29:57 "AI's Impact on Jobs"31:13 AI Dominance & OpenAI Hardware35:03 AI Revenue Risks and Competition41:10 "Subscribe for AI Updates"42:08 "Subscribe to Everyday AI Updates"Keywords: Gemini 3.1, Google DeepMind, AI news, Large Language Model, OpenAI, Anthropic, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Claude Opus 4.6, ChatGPT, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Global AI Summit, AI Impact Summit India, AI powered hardware, Smart speaker, Smart glasses, AI chip spending, Compute Send Everyday AI and Jordan a text message. (We can't reply back unless you leave contact info) Start Here ▶️Not sure where to start when it comes to AI? Start with our Start Here Series. You can listen to the first drop -- Episode 691 -- or get free access to our Inner Cricle community and all episodes: StartHereSeries.com Also, here's a link to the entire series on a Spotify playlist. 

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I mean, not only do we get two huge releases from Google and Anthropic, but that was just the tip of the AI iceberg. I mean, we got word on what OpenAI is going to do on the hardware end. And I think one of the things that they're working on is going to surprise a lot of people. We got a handful of pretty big non-LLLM. releases that we'll talk about like Google's Pameli photo shoot. But what most people are actually talking about, the fact that two AI leaders did not join hands at a global AI summit. So don't worry, the imaginary or maybe real AI beef is still alive and well. All right, there was a lot

to cover this week. If you miss anything, don't worry. We're going to get into it. Let's go. Welcome Welcome to Everyday AI. My name's Jordan Wilson. And if you're new here, well, this thing's for you. Everyday AI is a daily live stream podcast and free daily newsletter helping everyday business leaders like you and me, not just keep up with what's happening in the world of AI, but how to make sense of it. Cut through the BS. We tell you, here's what matters. And that's exactly what we do on our Monday show each week, the AI news that matters. So if you are new here, yeah, we do this thing Monday through Friday. But for the most part, on Monday, we focus on the AI news telling you what happened and what to expect. But we do this thing Tuesday through Friday as well. So if you haven't already, please make

sure to go to your everyday AI.com. Sign up for the free daily newsletter where we're going to be recapping, not just what we cover on today's show, but all the other daily AI news that matters. And while you're on our website, make sure if you haven't already, two numbers, I keep saying, you got to know them. 712, 713. Those are those are you. the two episodes that you are going to want to listen to if you haven't already. That is our 2026 AI prediction and roadmap series. So make sure you go check those out. All right.

Let's get into the AI news that matters. I'm excited for it. Live stream audience. Good to see you. Looks like the YouTube is finally working. Big bogey face. Good to see you. Joe joining us from Fort Lauderdale.

Brian joining us from Minnesota. Jose from Santiago. Everyone else. Thank you for joining us. Yeah. It's unedited. unscripted. We do this thing. All right. First, piece of news. Could Anthropic surpass Open AI when it comes to revenue? Well, according to at least one recent report, it could happen. So according to the

information in Epic AI, Anthropics annualized revenue has been growing at an impressive rate of 10 times per year since it hit $1 billion significantly faster than Open AI's rate of 3.3.5.5.5.5.5. 4 times per year. And report show that if these growth trends continue, Infropic could actually surpass OpenAI in annualized revenue by the middle or end of this year. However, recent data has shown that that 10x growth rate from Anthropic has slowed and leveled off a little bit to 7x since July, indicating the initial rapid expansion that Anthropic was. experiencing kind of from 2023 to 2024 to 2025 might be slowing down just a little bit.

Open AI's growth rate is also expected to slow with projections for 2026 showing a 2.2 times increase in revenue and anthropic forecasting growth for four times or less for the rest of this year. So despite these slower projected growth rates, according to reports, analysts still expect a crossover point at some point when Anthropics annualized revenue might exceed Open AIs, like I said, might happen in late 2026 or early 27, according to reports. So this come as recent news showed that Open AI is now telling investors it is targeting roughly $600 billion in total compute spending by 2030, a narrower and lower figure. year than the 1.4 trillion infrastructure commitment previously cited by CEO Sam Olman. So OpenAI projects more than $280 billion in total revenue by 2030 with consumer and enterprise businesses each contributing roughly half, signaling an effort to more tightly

aligned spending plans with expected commercial returns. Open AI reported $13 billion in revenue for 2025, but burned about $8 billion last year, according to reports, and improved on its own internal targets. So I'll say this. There's going to be a lot of talk about revenue. Some reports are going to be accurate. Some aren't. I don't know about this one.

But if you haven't seen the headlines, you know, expect this to spill over to social media soon. And, you know, people are going to be talking about, oh, my gosh, anthropic is, is, it's taking over, right? One thing to realize, especially if you listen to this show every day, if you work in, in around AI every day, especially if you are terminally online, like a lot of people are we live in a bubble right when i see reports like this i'm like probably not uh right if i'm being honest um i'll maybe do a dedicated show on this at some point right if you want to hear a you know

who's winning the ai race like for real for real uh go ahead drop me drop me a comment you know i don't know say say race i don't know if you guys want me to talk about this kind of things but you know if you're listening on the podcast or you know go go leave a spotify comment or if you're on the live stream just say race i'll see if anyone actually wants to hear me uh blab on about this but a couple important things to note here if you are just in this a i bubble people thinks think it's a very tight race it's absolutely not right you say oh you like you say ai everyone thinks chat gbt no like for the most part no one has heard of anthropic right uh a lot of studies out there you know you look at and you're like oh my gosh this says you know anthropic has taken over the enterprise oh

Guess what? That study was done by Anthropics largest investor. So you really have to understand what's real and what's fake. Is Anthropic crushing it on the revenue side? I think absolutely. I think, and I've said this since probably 2024, I think Anthropic has prioritized revenue per user where Open AI could care less, right? At least according to what they're doing and the moves they're making. I think all Open AI cares about is number one, owning the enterprise and number two,

owning the consumer market. And they're at least undoubtedly doing one of two of those things, maybe both of them, right, because they're going to be hitting a billion weekly active users pretty soon. And on the AP, right, so much of Anthropics revenue comes from the API side. And those things are just a one click away sometimes from potentially losing billions of dollars. And like I talked about it on the show last week that no one else is talking about. I don't know why. Anthropics revenue comes from the API side, right?

They don't have millions of business customers or hundreds of millions of users like OpenAI does, like I think that Google will be catching up pretty soon. Anthropic has dominated from developer software engineers on the API side. Their API usage is slipping according to at least open router. So for the last time, last week, I don't know, maybe I'm the only one talking about this because I'm the only one dorky enough to check. It's the first time in a year that they haven't had a top three model. on OpenRouter, which tracks API usage, at least through Open Router,

which is the most popular one in the world. So I don't know. Could it be this, you know, the Claudebot, OpenClawe fiasco that caused them to tank, maybe the Super Bowl ad left a bad taste in people's mouth? I don't know. But at least when I see reports like this, could it be true? Maybe. Doesn't matter.

I don't think so in the long run. Because I do think at any point, Open AI can, you know, turn on five new streams of a billion dollar business revenue and I don't think Anthropic can't. All right. Speaking of this beef that's going on, all right. A couple people want race. Marie said it. George said it.

All right. We'll see. Speaking of the beef, well, the reported or alleged or real beef, depending on how you look at it between Open AI and Anthropic was on full display for the global scene to see. Yeah. So live stream audience. see it with a picture on the screen.

I'm sure if you're listening on the podcast, you've seen this by now, right? But there's a little bit of attention between Open AI and Anthropic that was on stage at the AI Impact Summit in India. So at the India AI Impact Summit, Open AI CEO, Sam Altman and Anthropic, CEO, Dario Amato shared a kind of awkward on stage moments where they kind of refused to join hands right at the end, you know, all the big, literally, all the big AI CEOs went on stage with Indian Prime Minister, Narandrat Modi. Everyone raised their hand, right?

It was this, you know, kumbaya moment. And there you have CEO, Sam Altman and Dario standing next to each other. And they didn't link hands, right? So there's, I don't know, about a dozen or so, you know, AI leaders and dignitaries on stage. Everyone joins hands, you know, and Sam and Dario don't. So Modi, yeah, there's been so much talk about this. I almost say like, why talk about this? But I think I have to because technically it was probably one of the most talked

about stories in AI. So here's what happened. So Modi lifted Altman's hand for the photo, but Altman and Emote kind of just instead raised their fist, right? It looked like Sam looked over at Dario, kind of lifted his hand, right? I watched the video replay a couple of times. So it's probably intentional, right? But, you know, a lot of people are saying, oh, it's Sam's fault.

Oh, it's Dario's fault. I don't know. But the tension follows Anthropics' recent Super Bowl ad campaign, criticizing OpenAI's decision to introduce ads in chat, GPT, where they use words like betrayal and deception to highlight concerns about ads interrupting AI interactions. That ad was obviously not well received. A couple of, you know, industry.

Benchmarks show it was one of the least liked ads in the last five years. And Infraopic, I believe, only had like a 7% brand recognition. So most people didn't like the ad and they didn't even know who Anthropic was. Yet it is Anthropic, seemingly changing their tone and their messaging and approach and kind of going on their bully pulpit, pulpit a little bit. So Altman publicly at the point called Anthropics ads clearly dishonest and accused the company of double speak, defending. OpenAI's approach to making AI accessible to billions, including those who cannot pay subscriptions.

So for the actual AI Summit, Impact Summit itself, that was held this past week in New Delhi, India. And it concluded with the adoption of the New Delhi Declaration on AI Impact. So that's a non-binding agreement endorsed by 89 countries and international organizations, including the U.S., China, and the EU. And it focuses on AI for all, seeking to bridge the digital divide, right? Another thing that grabbed a lot of headlines, you know, a lot of people are saying that, you know, Sam Altman did a pretty good job, kind of, you know, talking and communicating that message on AI for all. And a lot of people were kind of roasting Dario for,

he went up and gave a kind of a more robotic speech reading off an iPhone, uh, the whole time. So, you know, I guess if nothing else, nothing really happened at this global summit. Everyone thought something would, right? Oh, we're going to see some. new announcements or breakthroughs and technology. No, there was a non-binding agreement that company signed that doesn't really mean anything. And then an awkward photo op where everyone on the stage was holding hands, except the CEOs of OpenAI Ananthropic. So there's your, there's your daily dose of the AI drama.

Yeah, Big Bogeyface says it was super awkward. I agree. At least though, I did like, I think it was the the chat GPT developer account on Twitter posted a picture instead where they put claws on Sam Altman. So opening I was at least, you know, having fun with it and, you know, referencing their recent acquisition of open claw. So that was fun. All right. But I mean, poor Google, all this stuff. And Google released the world's most powerful model and no one seemingly batted in eye, which is crazy to me. And, you know, speaking of those two episodes, I tell you to keep listening to 712 and 730.

I said this in one of my predictions. I said at any point Google can release the world's most powerful model. And since I did that show, they've already done it twice with their Gemini 3 Pro deep think. And then their new Gemini 3.1 Pro. So let's talk about the now world's most powerful model that even though it grabbed a few headlines, it doesn't seem like people are talking about it. So Google released an update to its marquee model with the new Gemini 3.1 pro. introducing a three-tier adjustable reasoning system that allows the model to scale its thinking effort

from quick responses to deep multi-minute analysis. So this new feature makes Gemini 3.1 Pro act more like a lightweight version of Google's specialized deep think reasoning system. So here's some details on what's new from Google's new model. So Gemini 3.1 Pro has those three thinking levels. There's low, medium, and high. So if you're on the developer end or using it inside AI Studio, you'll see that. And that enables developers to balance speed and depth of reasoning, depending on the complexity of the tax. The high setting now kind of mimics the capabilities of Google's deep think.

I'd say it's like a deep think mini, which I know might be kind of confusing. Right. If you think of like the most powerful version of each company's models that's available on front end AI chatbots, right? So let's just use the big three. Anthropic Claude 4.6 opus, Gemini 5.2 Pro. And let's just say Google Gemini 3 before this, right? If you use the pro or the most powerful versions for front end consumers, I'll say this. The GPD 5.2 Pro can work for more than an hour and do very impressive work, right? Claude, 4,6, opus, you know, 10, 15 minutes, you know, if you give it a pretty hard task.

before Gemini 3 pro a minute right so now with this 3.1 pro and I'm not saying that thinking time always corresponds with better outputs I will say a lot of times it does but even for myself sometimes when I'm when I was using Gemini 3 pro and I gave it a very complex task and I'm constantly you know split testing things across you know three or four providers at once even just for the fact of not needing the outputs but understanding how each of the highest reasoning levels work. I was always like, wait, how did Gemini 3 get this done so quickly, right? And sometimes the quality of the response is more nuanced, right? It's not always finite. Oh, yes, this model 1, but I do, and I have personally enjoyed, you know, the new Gemini 3.1 update with a

little bit more of that thinking. But from the benchmark side, yeah, it's absolutely just absolute dominance, once again, by Google Deep Mine. So benchmarks results. So show, dramatic improvements for the new 3.1 variation where they scored a 77.1 on Arc AGI 2. So yeah, if you follow all the dorky benchmarks, you know, I don't know, the best models in the world like a year or so ago were in the sub 20s on Arc AGI 2. So now Gemini 3 1 pro scored 771, which is more than double of Gemini 3 pros 31%. And it does also outperform, outperform competitors, including the two marquee models from Open AI and Anthropic. On academic and scientific reasoning benchmarks like Humanity's last exam and GPQA diamond, Gemini 3.1 Pro also leads with scores of 44% and 94% respectively.

On the agenic side, huge improvements as well on those multi-step workflows, which is what everyone's paying attention to, that and tool use, as Gemini 3-1 Pro scored a 68.5 score on terminal coding and 85.9 on web search capabilities. So pretty interesting, though, here Google's shifting over to a 0.1 version, which they haven't really done often, right? So usually Google's been, you know, going to, you know, Gemini 2, Gemini 2, Gemini 2, Gemini 2, 5, Gemini 3, you know, so going with an incremental update. But I think that's where we are right now in the state of AI. where companies can and probably will be releasing these more incremental versions, right? So we saw it with GPT52 and with their GPT53 codecs. We saw it with Claude's four, six models, and now we're seeing it with Google.

So I do believe that's the first time we've seen this. So the new update is currently available in preview across multiple Google platforms, including the Gemini API, AI Studio, Vertex AI, and Android Studio. YouTube. Woo! Adobe just introduced an entirely new way to create, bringing the power and precision of its creative suite into one conversational experience. Meet Firefly AI Assistant, now live in the Adobe Firefly app, the All-in-One Creative

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Every step the assistant takes is visible so you can refine, redirect, or take over at any time. You stay in the driver's seat as the creative director. Adobe Firefly AI assistant now in public beta. See it today at firefly.adopi.com. Yeah, comment here saying Google for the long end. Yeah, that's what I've been saying for a long time. Google has more access to cash websites or websites that they're able to crawl. They have the advantage for YouTube data, right?

and just for search and search intent. And so yeah, I've always said that Google is playing the long game and they've been playing the long game for the past, I'll say six months. But at any time, they can drop in and win the short game. Right. So if we see a GBT 53 from OpenAI, because right now we just have a GPD 53 codex, right? So if Open AI comes in with a world chattering GPD 53 for chat GVT, which I think is very possible and could in theory, you know, happen any week now.

I think that Google, if they wanted to, could come out with a Gemini 3-2 Pro that might top it on most benchmarks. Can't speak today. That's fun. All right. Speaking of new model releases, again, poor, poor Anthropic. This is the second time in just as many weeks. I believe that they've come out with a new model and instantly got swiped up by their

competitors because, you know, last, I think it was last. last week of the week before, they came out with their premier Opus 4.6 update. And then literally, I think an hour later, OpenAI came out with GPD53 Kodax, which wiped the floor with Opus 4.6. And then here, Anthropic released Sonnet 4.6. And, you know, for two days, it looked really good on the benchmarks. And then Google came out with Gemini 3.1 Pro.

Anyways, Anthropic has introduced Claude Sonnet 4.6. its new default AI model that sits in the middle. It is both faster and less expensive than their Opus 4.6, but it also improves coding capabilities in computer use skills, like clicking and navigating software interfaces. So this new upgrade narrows the gap between Anthropics Premium in mainstream AI models, making advanced features acceptable even to free users, which could broaden the company's base.

So yeah, if you didn't know right now, Anthropic kind of has three different tiers. So the tiers are Haiku, which is their smartest and cheapest model, right? And not as smart. And then you have Opus, which is the big one. That is their, you know, much slower, much more expensive. If you're using it on the API side, that is their, you know, powerhouse model. And then in the middle sits Sonet. But what is interesting here with the Saunit 4.6.

upgrade. Well, it did better on some things than its bigger brother opus 4.6, such as certain coding benchmarks in computer use. So yeah, Claude Sondit 46 outperforms the recently released Opus 46 model on certain real world office tasks, meaning users might need to pay for the, might not need to pay for the higher priced opus tier. Yeah, I've seen a lot of people that were still using Anthropics models for OpenClaw as an example, although I think people are kind of moving away from anthropic models for that in mass. But I did see a lot of people kind of move away from OPS4.6 for certain tasks and just move to Sonnet 4.6. So the new Sonnet 4.6 is better at handling long chunks of code by understanding context before editing,

avoiding redundant logic, and delivering quicker, smarter answers. So a couple things on the performance. side. Sonnet 4-6 matches the performance of the previous Opus 4-5. So across all benchmarks, I know that's confusing. So Opus 4-6 still leads Sonnet 4-6 on many of the major benchmarks, although Sonnet 4-6 now eclipses the previous Opus 4-5. So if that kind of levels it out in your head. Also, the extended context window for developers, it does a 1 million token context window in beta, which doubles the previous maximum.

All right. Brian here says Sonnet 46 does really well on most tasks I've tried yet. If I'm being honest, I haven't done as much testing on Sonnet 46 as I would have liked to, right? The release cycle happening now, right? It's kind of conference season. You know, we have the Nvidia conference coming up. We have, you know, Google's conference coming up.

So, you know, kind of in this, you know, first quarter. the releases are just so fast, right? Because companies are gearing up for their kind of major announcements, you know, usually in the March, April, May. So it's pretty, pretty tough even for someone that just does this. This is all I do. It's tough to do all this, right? All right.

Here is what I think is low key, maybe the biggest story of the week. Because, yeah, Google released Gemini 3.1 pro, which like I said, is now the world's most powerful model, but that wasn't even the thing that got the most traction from Google this past week. It was actually not even a new mode or a new app, right? It was an update to a piece of Google AI software that I think a lot of people have never heard of.

But I think it got a lot of love for the right reasons. And it's really, really good. So Google Labs has introduced a new feature called Photoshoot within its free marketing tool, Pameli aimed at helping small to medium-sized businesses generate professional product images easily using AI. So Photoshoot uses Google's generative AI, including Nanobanana, to transform any uploaded product photo, regardless of the quality into polished market-ready images. So users can select from the. various shot templates such as studio, floating, ingredients, in use, etc.

The last of which includes AI generated models to show products in real life scenarios. So the tool also offers lifestyle image features, you know, that features the product in typical use cases, replacing the need for some maybe to hire professional photographers in some marketing tasks. So businesses can upload a photo or simply prove. provide a URL of their product online, making the service flexible and accessible without requiring photography skills or equipment. And then after selecting the preferred shots, Photoshop shoot generates new images that users can download for free to use in their marketing campaigns, aiming to

reduce the time and cost burden of digital marketing for smaller companies. Google emphasizes that Pameli and Photoshoot are designed to help smaller businesses keep up with the demands of online marketing by producing authentic on-branded visuals without needing to hire professionals to do it. So currently, Photoshop is available in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, expanding Google's suite of AI tools that impact creative industries.

Let me know, live stream audience, have you all used this yet? I actually have a lot of thoughts on this, and I'll tell you why. And again, maybe this is one of those shows that I should do later. But the interesting thing here, before I give you my personal take on this.

This thing went absolutely viral. And that's why a product update news, right, made it into the top news story. I believe it had more than 23 million views on Twitter, right? Whereas there, Jevonai 3.1 pro announcement had like a small fraction of that. Here's my take. Okay. I think that, and this is a maybe, right, Right. Maybe if this thing takes off, if Pemelli photo shoot takes off, I think this could be looking in five to ten years down the line.

This could be one of those instances where people look back at and they say, oh, this is when a lot of roles changed, right? I'm not saying this one, you know, Pameli photo shoot, right? But I think this could be one in a series of mini where it made. date is at least on the creative side. Day to day creative professionals change their workflow. And I think this is one of those things, right? I've talked about for years,

this upcoming shift from operator to orchestrator, right? Go listen to the 2026 AI prediction and roadmap series for more on that, right? But essentially, humans, even over the last four years with very powerful AI, we've still been the operators, right, pushing the buttons. This might be one of those. Yeah, we're still pushing a button on Pomelli Photoshoot, but this might be one of those that turns a lot of creatives into orchestrators, right, orchestrating AI to get the job done.

So, you know, in the same way that, you know, Photoshop was seemingly at the time, very disruptive to the photo industry. I think Pomelli Photoshoot could do that, right? I think it's going to be a very polarizing feature. you have to also say that this technology and these capabilities have been out for at least a year plus in many other popular, at least popular in AI circles, you know, AI apps. But this is the first time we've seen from a big company, and by big company, I mean Microsoft, Google, Anthropic OpenAI, that we've seen a tool like this that brings drag and drop

creative powers to the masses, right? So obviously I'm talking about more than an AI image generator. Again, that's still, I think, orchestrating, right? You know, uploading multiple, you know, photos into something like GPD image, 1.5 or nanobanana pro, right? And then, you know, doing the work to try to get something else. To be able to drop a photo that's not that great and to get a variety of product shots that your business can use, I do think maybe if,

this does take off. We might look back at this in five years, you know, similar to a, you know, chat GPT type moment for creatives. All right. Speaking of potential job loss and doing things differently, Andrew Yang is sounding the alarm on AI and jobs. So the former US presidential candidate, Andrew Yang, has warned that AI could cut up to 50% of white color jobs as companies pursue efficiency and cost-cutting measures. So Yang explained that the stock market will reward companies that reduce head counts and penalize those that don't, creating pressure to automate office jobs. Weird.

That's exactly what I said in the very first episode of Everyday AI in 2023. Anyways, the ripple effects will extend beyond office workers to service industries like dry cleaners, dog walkers, and hairstylists. Well, according to Yang, as fewer people go to offices and reduce demand for those services. So he had previously advocated for a $1,000 monthly universal basic income or UBI to support workers displaced by automation and AI technologies. So a related stat here.

So a recent UGov poll found that 63% of U.S. adults expect AI to reduce jobs, while only 7% believe it will be. create new ones. And if you're a long-time listener on this show, you already know my take. I will ultimately, quote unquote, take more jobs than it creates. And I do think the future of full-time work is very different than we've grown accustomed to over the last few decades. So this debate comes amid a broader discussion about AI safety and risks, highlighted by some top researchers that have resigned from leading AI organizations over the last month or so. as AI's capabilities continue to change, right?

One thing, and I'm glad that we're seeing more economic-based benchmarks out of the big AI labs such as GDP Val, right? But we're starting to see how even a base model that you use on the front ends can complete full knowledge worker tasks front to back in a single prompt. If you know what you're doing, if you're using the right model, if you're providing the right context, yeah, AI models are better than almost all. of us at knowledge work, right? If you can sit in front of a computer and you have to do something and that's probably

most of us listening. Yeah, today's AI models, according to benchmarks that are judged blindly by experts, AI models are better across the board. All right. In our last big AI news story of the week, we got some more details on what Open AI is reportedly working on for their consumer hardware and at least one of the things that they're working on is a little surprising. So Open AI is preparing to enter the hardware market with a new family of AI power devices,

starting with a smart speaker expected to launch no earlier than February of 2027. So according to reporting from the information Open AI currently has, get this, more than 200 employees working on AI devices, including here's the three, the smart speaker, smart glasses, and. a smart limp. Yeah, that's what I need. Light that tells me what I'm doing right or what I'm doing wrong. All right. Anyways, the first device, according to reports, could be released or might be the smart

speaker that could be priced between $200 and $300, featuring a built-in camera to gather data about users and their environments. Yeah, I know a lot of people, if that is the ultimate how the device lives, A lot of people aren't going to like that, but we've had that for a long time, y'all. Like, meta's had their, you know, kind of laptop or not laptop. They're kind of iPad-esque, you know, swivel, smart assistant that has a camera. There's multiple versions of the Amazon smart device that has that. So a lot of people are going to say like, oh, my gosh, a camera has been happening for like close to a decade.

Anyways, the smart speakers camera capability suggests a focus on enhanced interaction and contextual awareness, potentially changing how users interact with AI at home. So mass production of OpenAI's smart glasses is not expected until 2028, indicating a longer development timeline for the wearable tech. So the hardware push follows OpenAI's 6.5 billion acquisition of I.O products. The startup founded by famed and former Apple designer, Johnny Ife, showing a strategic investment in design and augmented reality. So the move places OpenAI in direct competition with companies like Meta, which has found success with its Rayban AI enabled smart glasses that feature cameras for recording and streaming. Also, we've seen recent reports that say Apple and Google are close to developing and releasing

their own smart glasses. So Open AI has not yet publicly commented on these plans, but the company's entry into hardware could impact how AI tools are integrated into daily work and life. So this goes back to that initial report, right, that shows, oh, Anthropics revenue may catch or surpass Open AIs. And I'm like, not in the long run. I don't think so, right? Because Open AI, a lot of people have maybe called them distracted over the past year or so as they've, started to work on their own infrastructure, right, on their own chips, partnering with others, but on their own chips, on their own consumer hardware devices, right, going different places

on the software side. So people, you know, I think have been saying, and plenty of reports are saying, oh, open AI is not focused. And I would say the opposite. I'd say open AI understands the writing on the wall that if you just rely on the majority of your revenues, you come in through API, which I think I could be wrong, right, but I think That's where Anthropic has really been, you know, taking it to the bank. At any point, right?

The way systems are built now, they're built modularly, right? So I would think Anthropic at any point could lose billions of dollars with people snapping their fingers and saying, oh, now all of a sudden, Gemini is untouchable, right? It's a third of the cost and twice as powerful, I'm switching off, right? Or as these, you know, Chinese models that may or may not be distilling from American, us companies offer free or free 99 cheap AI models that are outperforming, Anthropics models on certain benchmarks. I don't see what's going to, you know, lock people into Anthropic.

Whereas Open AI and Google and technically, you know, Microsoft by proxy, I think that have much more long-term stability when it comes to future revenue production, at least compared to Anthropics. So I don't know. There's my random two cents. All right. So, yeah, Joe says when they invent a wearable Star Trek communicator pin, I'll start listening. But seriously, a smart speaker.

Hey, I personally, I can't wait for the new Google Gemini at home to come out. Because even the new, you know, A-L-E-X-A, sorry, I know I say that out loud sometimes. And then I get emails about how I trigger everyone's smart device at home. You know, I have the new Alexa, you know, plus it stinks. It's not good. It's absolutely terrible, right? So we've been waiting for this new smarter version of Amazon's assistant for like two years. It comes out.

I can't use it. I mean, I can use it. It's absolutely terrible. So I'm fine with the smart speaker. Maybe that's just my personal use, right? My wife and I are constantly, you know, asking smart speakers for things. So I'm happy that Open AI is reportedly getting into the game. I can't wait for maybe it's release.

I know it's supposed to be released in spring, with the new Google Gemini home, right? Give me an actual AI powered smart assistant that works. That's all I want, right? All right. Enough of that rant. Let's go over the bullet points on what's new and what's next. So we went over the top, you know, each week we usually do the top seven or eight stories,

give them a little more depth, but there's always so much to cover. So at the end, we go over the what's new and what's next. Sometimes these are smaller news stories that have already happened. Sometimes they're rumors. or leaks. All right, but let's get into them because there's a lot. And some actually pretty big ones, if I'm being honest. Okay. So open AI rolled out interactive code blocks in chat, GBT. They're really good.

Anthropic released Claude code security, which finds hidden code flaws. XAI dropped rock four two oh, bed, uh, they have, of course, it's called rock four 20, uh, with four AI agents working together for faster, smarter responses. Uh, Microsoft is testing a, Unified Tasks feature for co-pilot. Meta expanded their NVIDIA deal to buy millions of AI chips from the chipmaker. Figma partnered with Anthropic to more easily transform AI code into editable designs.

Replit released their Gemini 3.1 powered animation feature where you can just vibe code a video now, right? It's more of like a typography based video, but still really, really good. Google released Learia 3. Yeah, this could have been a news story. Really good. The updated version of its AI music generator. Claude code on desktop can now preview the code and running apps. That's been a great update, FYI, that I've been using a lot.

Google released its Google AI professional certificate from the Grow with Google program. Reports show OpenAI is rolling out a new pro-light plan. All right. So reportedly going to be $100 for a light version of the pro plan versus the normal $200 pro plan. We'll see. I've been on the $200 pro plan for a while. I use it a ton. I don't like running into limits, especially on chat chit.

So, but I'm guessing it's going to be pretty popular. World Labs raised $1 billion to advanced 3D spatial AI. Microsoft is testing their version of notebook LMs deep dive and co-pilot online. with essentially, you know, kind of two virtual or AI characters debating something. Speaking of, that notebook L.M rolled out slide revisions. Actually, looking back at it now, that should have been its own news story, if I'm being honest. So many people use different AI tools to get slides, right? And, but the problem is, is there's always some things wrong or some things you want better.

Well, now notebook LM that is powered by Nanobanana Pro has slide revisions big. All right. PICA Labs released PICA AI selves, which is supposed to be kind of, have AI avatar versions of yourself with persistent memory. Open AI updated its invite only Ardvark security tool and rebranded it as Codex security. Anthropic made Claude in PowerPoint available to pro users. So now to all paying users and not just those on the Max plan. Open AI added tab organization to its Atlas browser. ChatGPt ads are now live and being tested in some free and also chat GPT Go accounts.

Meta's ad manager now features Manus AI tools. So yeah, Manus features rolling out in meta, meta features rolling out in Manus, a lot there since the acquisition. Some new leaks show that OpenAI may be closer to releasing its adult mode and an actual something, my gosh, thank you, Open AI for this one. Open AI expanded the context window to 256. thousand tokens in GPT5 thinking modes. This is fantastic.

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