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Wednesday 28 October

  • VideoMatt Wolfe

    His AI Made 20 Reels Before Breakfast

    In a 'show me your workflow' episode, Matt Wolfe interviews builder Nate Herk about three AI workflows he uses daily. First, an automated short-form video editing workflow built with Claude Code that Herk says can produce around 20 reels in a single morning, handling ideation, scripting, B-roll selection, and AI-generated video. Second, an AI expert panel called The Roast Room used to make better decisions. Third, an AI social media manager that researches, creates, and publishes Instagram content. Herk explains his approach to building 'skills' by reverse-engineering proven work and using a 'golden dataset' (like model evals) to guide output, noting AI still lags behind humans in music and sound design.

Saturday 24 October

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    Open-Source AI Models Caught Up! (Kimi K3.1 Pro)

    Matt Wolfe reports that Chinese lab Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3.1 Pro, an open AI model that reportedly built video game demos—a racing game, a zombie shooter, a parkour game, and a medieval town—on its own in real game engines like Unity, Unreal, and Blender. Artificial Analysis ranks the model fourth among all models it tests, and on a coding benchmark it finishes less than a point behind Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5, at roughly half the price of Opus and about 15th the price of a GPT-6 Astra model. The full model releases November 4 and can be downloaded and run on a company's own servers.

Friday 23 October

  • VideoMatt Wolfe

    AI News: 24 Things You Need To Know This Week

    A weekly AI news roundup. Key items: Anthropic introduced Claude Duet, a proactive personal assistant agent that takes initiative, uses tools, and connects to apps such as Gmail, Slack, QuickBooks, Stripe, Gusto, LinkedIn, DocuSign, HubSpot, Canva, and Shopify; it ships with a dedicated safety classifier to guard against leaking sensitive data and is available to Pro and Max subscribers on a waitlist. It is positioned alongside ChatGPT's Dots, Meta's Muse, and xAI's Grokbot. A roughly 20-year-old PHP vulnerability was reportedly identified before attackers could exploit it by an OpenAI model; patching took some websites temporarily offline, and Cloudflare reported a massive surge in exploitation attempts after the disclosure, with a security firm calling it among the most severe vulnerabilities in software history. Railway reported a security breach in which an unauthorized party may have accessed encrypted environment variables, potentially exposing API keys that could be charged against their owners. The roundup also references OpenAI's 'Patch the Planet' initiative and briefly mentions Ideogram's new vector model and ElevenLabs' Chimera.

Wednesday 21 October

  • VideoMatt Wolfe

    AI Breakthroughs Everyone Missed

    In this AI news roundup, Matt Wolfe shares lesser-known AI developments. Fish Audio released Drama 3, a text-to-speech model that lets users direct performances in plain English using bracketed stage directions, word-specific effects, sound effects, and multiple voices; it tops Artificial Analysis on pronunciation (scoring above 11 Labs and SpaceX's model) but ranks lower on preference tests, is open-weight (36 billion parameters) on Hugging Face, needs substantial VRAM (roughly 46 GB, or about 32 GB with a community 4-bit quantization), is free for commercial use under $500,000/year revenue, and its API is $10 per million characters now, rising to $50 after November 12. BytePlus (Bite Dance) released OmniHuman 2.0, which generates talking, singing, or acting video from a single image and audio track, now up to five minutes in one continuous shot (versus 60 seconds before), in 720p, with text prompts to control camera moves, and it works on humans, cartoon characters, and animals; pricing dropped from 12 cents to 7 cents per second (about $21 for a full 5-minute video). Tencent Arc Lab released WorldCrafter, a world model that generates navigable video worlds from a single image or line of text. The video also lists additional resources including Matrix Game 4.0, NVIDIA StreamRender-H3, and an Odyssey update.

Friday 16 October

  • VideoMatt Wolfe

    AI News: 6 New Models & A Nano Banana Killer

    In this weekly AI news roundup, Matt Wolfe covers several new image models and large language models. He leads with Krea 3, a new image editing model now in public beta, calling it the best image editing experience he has had and noting it does cleaner edits than ChatGPT Image or Nano Banana for quick thumbnail changes. Three new image models are featured: Krea 3, Black Forest Labs' open-weight FLUX 3 Image Klein (which can run on consumer GPUs such as the RTX 4070 and be tried free on Hugging Face Spaces), and Alibaba's open-weight Qwen Image 2.1 Turbo. The roundup also covers Google's Gemini 4 Argon, Meta's Muse Wonder, recent OpenAI updates, and Grok Voice 3.0.

Friday 9 October

  • VideoMatt Wolfe

    AI News: Haiku-5.5, Visual ChatGPT, Grok's New Trick, and more!

    In this AI news roundup, Matt Wolfe covers Anthropic's release of Claude Haiku 5.5, a fast and cheap model built for large-scale, cost-sensitive tasks such as summarization, compression, database queries, classification, and basic coding assistance. It is significantly cheaper than Sonnet 5.5 (about a quarter of the price) but less capable, ranking behind Kimi K3, GLM 5.3, and Grok 4.7 on Artificial Analysis. It is available in paid Claude accounts and via API. The video also covers Claude Dashboards (live dashboards connecting to data platforms like BigQuery, Databricks, Snowflake, and Salesforce) and Claude Motion (animated explanations), the latter available only in Team or Enterprise plans. Additionally, OpenAI news includes GPT-6 for Everyone, Codex improvements (faster default speed, free auto-review, and 28-day progress), a ChatGPT Meetings Plugin, and an OpenAI Decisions API.

Wednesday 30 September

  • VideoMatt Wolfe

    AI Made a Game I'd ACTUALLY Play

    In this video by Matt Wolfe, the author tests Claude's Opus 5.5 coding model by letting it run his Megabonk game test for nearly 20 hours, describing the result as 'kind of insane.' He notes that Opus 5.5 is available on Claude's Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, starting with the $20/month Pro plan, and that the API costs $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens. He highlights the model's price-to-performance ratio for long-running coding tasks.

Monday 28 September

  • VideoMatt Wolfe

    Jev - The New AI model that has people talking

    This video introduces Jev, an AI model from Typesafe AI that skips generating text and instead outputs structured values—a choice, a score, or true/false—making it fast and cheap. Input tokens cost 4¢ per million (or $42 per billion) and output tokens are free because they are too cheap to meter. The speaker notes you can plug Jev into tools like Claude Code to write the code that runs it, giving an example app that detects whether a destination URL is malicious before visiting it.