Covering the biggest news of the century - the arrival of smarter-than-human AI. The author of Simple Bench, exposing the remaining human-LLM reasoning gap. Solo Developer of LM Council: https://lmcouncil.ai - Code - INSIDER15Join me at AI Insiders, with exclusive videos and a 1000+ network of AI enthusiasts and professionals: https://www.patreon.com/AIExplainedLinks:AI Insiders: Code - INSIDER15: https://www.patreon.com/AIExplainedMy AI Council App: https://lmcouncil.aiSimple Bench: https://simple-bench.com/Podcast (New!): https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/X: https://twitter.com/AIExplainedYT
Are these some clues to the Q* (Q star) mystery? Featuring barely noticed references, YouTube videos, article exclusives and more, I put together a theory about OpenAI’s apparent breakthrough. Join me for the journey and let me know what you think at the end. https://www.assemblyai.com/playgroundAI Explained Bot: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-804sC5lJ6-ai-explained-botAI Explained Twitter: https://twitter.com/AIExplainedYTLukasz Kaiser Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrvc2rPuXTEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vvzgBwH9OELet’s Verify Step by Step: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.20050The Information Exclusive: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-made-an-ai-breakthrough-before-altman-firing-stoking-excitement-and-concern?rc=sy0ihqReuters Article: https://www.reuters.com/technology/sam-altmans-ouster-openai-was-precipitated-by-letter-board-about-ai-breakthrough-2023-11-22/Original Test Time Compute Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.03113.pdfOpenAI Denial: https://twitter.com/alexeheath/status/1727472179283919032DeepMind Music: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/transforming-the-future-of-music-creation/Altman Angelo: https://twitter.com/samaKarpathy: https://twitter.com/peterjliu/status/1727522893666668926?s=46STaR: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.14465Noam Brown Tweets: https://twitter.com/polynoamial/status/1676971503261454340?s=19Q Policy: https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2021/02/understanding-the-bellman-optimality-equation-in-reinforcement-learning/Sutskever Alignment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPZxs6IXH00https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Non-Hype, Free Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/
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13 Oct 2026
Claude 3.7 is More Significant than its Name Implies (ft DeepSeek R2 + GPT 4.5 coming soon)
Claude 3.7 is here, hot on the heels of Grok 3 and a host of other developments, but how good is it really? And what does it say about the next few months in AI? I’ve read the papers, played with the model for hours, and benched it on Simple. Things aren’t slowing down. Plus the latest in humanoid robots, led by Helix and freaked out by Protoclone. And reports of GPT 4.5 and DeepSeek R2.GraySwan Competition! https://app.grayswan.ai/arena/challenge/agent-red-teaminghttps://x.com/GraySwanAI/status/1894084923260043282AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplainedChapters:00:00 - Introduction01:25 - Claude 3.7 New Stats/Demos 05:22 - 128k Output06:13 - Pokemon06:58 - Just a tool? 09:54 - DeepSeek R210:20 - Claude 3.7 System Card/Paper Highlights 17:18 - Simple Record Score/Competition20:37 - Grok 3 + Redteaming prizes22:26 - Google Co-scientist24:02 - Humanoid Robot Developments3.7 Release Notes: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-7-sonnetvs o3 and Grok 3: https://x.com/12exyz/status/1891723056931827959Extended Thinking: https://www.anthropic.com/research/visible-extended-thinking?s=09System Prompt: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/release-notes/system-prompts#feb-24th-2025System Card: https://assets.anthropic.com/m/785e231869ea8b3b/original/claude-3-7-sonnet-system-card.pdfUnfaithful CoT: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.04388Original Constitution: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claudes-constitutionResponsible Scaling Policy: https://assets.anthropic.com/m/24a47b00f10301cd/original/Anthropic-Responsible-Scaling-Policy-2024-10-15.pdfAmodei and Hassabis:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4poqjZlM8Lohttps://simple-bench.com/400 Weekly Users: https://x.com/bradlightcap/status/1892579908179882057Grok 3 Jailbroken: https://x.com/LinusEkenstam/status/1893832876581380280Google Co-Scientist: https://research.google/blog/accelerating-scientific-breakthroughs-with-an-ai-co-scientist/But Hassabis Says Years Away: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr0GiSgUvPU&t=156sDeepSeek R2 Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/deepseek-rushes-launch-new-ai-model-china-goes-all-2025-02-25/Protoclone: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1it9rpp/protoclone_the_worlds_first_bipedal/Helix: https://www.figure.ai/news/helixTechTrance: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTechTrance/videosGPT 4.5 Soon: https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft-newsletter/616464/microsoft-prepares-for-openais-gpt-5-modelAltman roadmap: https://x.com/sama/status/1889755723078443244Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/
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12 Oct 2026
Are We Back to Before? OpenAI 2.0, Inflection-2 and a Major AI Cancer Breakthrough
Hopefully the last in a trilogy of videos covering the saga at OpenAI. New revelations on the return of Sam Altman, internal investigations, Microsoft demands and employee revolts. Plus a major new model previewed from Inflection, Claude 2.1 and a major pancreatic cancer breakthrough with AI. More non-OpenAI news to come.WSJ Exclusive: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/altman-firing-openai-520a3a8cAltman Tweet: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1727207458324848883Emily Chang: https://twitter.com/emilychangtv/status/1727228431396704557OpenAI Charter: https://openai.com/our-structure Geoffrey Irving Post: https://twitter.com/geoffreyirving/status/1726754270224023971Nadella Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut9zcpOEGgc&t=1sKevin Scott Outreach: https://twitter.com/kevin_scott/status/1726971608706031670?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1726971608706031670%7Ctwgr%5E8c6b9e371b7b294478b806bf3fd70002cc344785%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Ftechnology-67484455NYT Exclusive: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/21/technology/openai-altman-board-fight.htmlToner Report: https://cset.georgetown.edu/publication/decoding-intentions/Sam Altman Comments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sWH2e5xpdo&t=86sOpen Letter from OpenAI: https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/OpenAIletter.pdfAnthropic Merger: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-approached-anthropic-about-merger?rc=sy0ihqNew Board: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-22/sam-altman-to-return-as-openai-ceo-with-a-new-board?srnd=premium-uk&embedded-checkout=trueAltman Blog: https://blog.samaltman.com/quoraNadella Statements: https://twitter.com/codejake/status/1726794158424424511https://twitter.com/satyanadella/status/1727207661547233721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1727207661547233721%7Ctwgr%5Ef14cfdae2ac0873a85c1cc6cd2104444c9947991%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theverge.com%2F2023%2F11%2F22%2F23967223%2Fsam-altman-returns-ceo-open-aiLarry Summers Interview: https://twitter.com/BloombergTV/status/1644388988071886848Claude 2.1: https://www.anthropic.com/index/claude-2-1https://twitter.com/GregKamradt/status/1727018183608193393/photo/1Inflection 2: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2023/11/22/inflection-ai-releases-2nd-model-on-gpt-4-heels/Cancer Detection: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-023-02640-w#Abs1https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Non-Hype, Free Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/
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