AI news this week: AI is coming faster and faster. Google dropped Gemini 4 Carbon, its second frontier model in TWO WEEKS, plus Genie 4, and OpenAI shipped GPT-6.1 Terra.

On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell dig into a week where the new models just would not stop. Sam Altman says it's all speeding up, and Google seems to agree: Gemini 4 Carbon posts very good scores and is legit better at little graphic demos, but there's a catch. We can't use it yet. (For safety.) Google's already teasing the next one anyway. Then Genie 4, Google's newest playable worlds model, mixes real-time video gen with interactive worlds: stepping inside videos, scenes that build out as you go and a mouse serving tea while a porcupine walks by. Yes, lil' Googie has been busy.

Also: OpenAI's cheap new GPT-6.1 Terra, which Kevin used to make a Katamari knockoff that's, honestly, not bad. Plus ChatGPT Dots land in iMessage, Jack Dorsey's Block has a scary-human new voice model called Dessa, Nvidia drops Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe and Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto says AI will NOT be the end of creativity. (We're gonna prove him wrong.) And Kevin drops CivAIl, a free idea for pointing AI back at your local elected officials.

Plus: Science Corner, with three big new science results from OpenAI, Anthropic's early progress on drug discovery and long-standing physics problems getting cracked. Then AI See What You Did There: Harry Potter Balenciaga 3, Claude Opus 5.5's disembodied eye simulation and, finally, Neo doing parkour in The Office.

LIL' GOOGIE. GAVIN STANDS BY IT.

#ai #ainews #gemini

// Chapters //

00:00 AI Is Moving Faster & Faster

01:44 Sam Altman Wants A Trillion AIs

03:41 Gemini 4 Carbon: Google's Second Frontier Model In Two Weeks (That We Can't Use)

07:26 Business Corner: Is AI Search Eating Google Search?

11:34 Genie 4: Google's Playable Worlds Get A Big Upgrade

19:12 GPT-6.1 Terra, Kevin's Katamari Knockoff & ChatGPT Dots

26:34 Jack Dorsey's Dessa Voice Model & Nvidia's Free Local AI

32:01 Miyamoto Says AI Won't End Creativity

34:22 Stop Renaming AI "Superintelligence"

36:33 Kevin's CivAIl: Point AI Back At Your Local Officials

40:40 Science Corner: OpenAI Breakthroughs & AI Drug Discovery

46:41 AI See What You Did There: Harry Potter Balenciaga 3, A Creepy Eye & Matrix Parkour

// Show Links //

Sam Altman on Cheeky Pint

https://youtu.be/iMsUcCYNKqY?si=QF7B1rfhV67Vc8pn

Altman: AI is coming faster and faster

https://x.com/jaynitx/status/2115787009759625229

Google introduces Gemini 4 Carbon

https://x.com/Google/status/2115489522603466766

Gemini 4 Carbon on the Arena leaderboard

https://x.com/arena/status/2115495002998751262

Gemini 4 Carbon visual comparison

https://x.com/AI_Screening/status/2115501232634859992

A Gemini 4 Carbon horror scene

https://x.com/HarshithLucky3/status/2115510129546449289

Google is already teasing the next one

https://x.com/zacharynado/status/2115501213873516911

Google DeepMind introduces Genie 4

https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/2115114028338962672

Genie 4: a new generation of world simulation (Google DeepMind)

https://deepmind.google/blog/genie-4-a-new-generation-of-world-simulation/

A mouse serving tea, a porcupine walking by

https://x.com/emollick/status/2115273222061015169

Stepping into videos with Genie 4

https://x.com/holynski_/status/2115211475836899605

Genie 4 building out a scene as you go

https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2115115421611249944

OpenAI introduces GPT-6.1 Terra

https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2114780711664398349

GPT-6.1 Terra (OpenAI blog)

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-terra/

Kevin's Katamari knockoff

https://katamari.cursedslop.com/

Soon you can text your Dot (ChatGPT)

https://x.com/ChatGPT/status/2115496387613786374

Dessa, the new audio model from Block

https://block.xyz/dessa

Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe demo

https://x.com/nvidiaai/status/2115462300241141882

Nvidia Open-H3-Regenerate2k

https://x.com/wildmindai/status/2115396758289154403

Shigeru Miyamoto on AI (VGC)

https://x.com/VGC_News/status/2113568803216818595

Kevin's CivAIl: AI oversight for your local officials

https://civail.cursedslop.com

OpenAI: building scientific understanding with academic communities

https://openai.com/index/building-scientific-understanding-with-academic-communities/

Anthropic: early progress in drug development

https://www.anthropic.com/research/early-progress-drug-development

Long-standing physics problems, solved

https://x.com/psipbc/status/2114865747294056793

Harry Potter Balenciaga 3 (Demon Flying Fox)

https://youtu.be/5QKeYse5GF8?si=vJ6M1Rcg2ecv2gTT

Claude Opus 5.5 disembodied eye simulation

https://x.com/__rockbiter/status/2114728296034226583

Neo does parkour in The Office

https://x.com/jinwoo33x/status/2115128485547270363

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