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AI Explained | 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.

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

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