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Kimi K3 Is Here. China Just Hit the AI Frontier.
AI news: Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is a big AI model and Moonshot's early benchmarks put it surprisingly close to GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5. And… Kevin's Opus 5 SCOOP!! Also: OpenAI's reported screenless AI speaker, a Seedance 2.5 preview, the Suno hack, robot fights and AI-built games in Unreal En
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AI news: Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is a big AI model and Moonshot's early benchmarks put it surprisingly close to GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5. And… Kevin's Opus 5 SCOOP!!
Also: OpenAI's reported screenless AI speaker, a Seedance 2.5 preview, the Suno hack, robot fights and AI-built games in Unreal Engine and Blender.
On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell unpack Kimi K3's benchmarks, pricing, Flappy Bird and Minecraft tests, and giant-model economics. Then, Kevin DRIPS Opus 5 alpha and says it's VERY good and blows the doors off of Fable but it's… slow.
Plus Demis Hassabis's AI-governance proposal, AI 2040's Plan A, OpenAI's reported screenless speaker, Codex Keyboard, a Seedance 2.5 preview, the alleged sources exposed by the Suno hack, spectacular robot violence, polite office-robot dabbing, and what happens when GPT-5.6 Sol meets Unreal Engine, Blender and two hosts with free time.
THE AI FRONTIER IS MOVING AGAIN—AND CHINA IS RIGHT THERE WITH IT.
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AI FOR HUMANS Survey
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Official Moonshot AI Kimi K3 launch video
https://x.com/Kimi_Moonshot/status/2077521842080817296
Official Kimi K3 launch and benchmark thread
https://x.com/Kimi_Moonshot/status/2077830229968683203
Official Kimi K3 technical launch article
Kimi K3 head-to-head with GPT-5.6 Sol
https://x.com/chetaslua/status/2077701096924229744
Kimi K3 Flappy Bird test
https://x.com/jun_song/status/2077396996865003739
Demis Hassabis on a new framework for AI governance
https://x.com/demishassabis/status/2076957440109625718
AI 2040: Plan A
Bloomberg's report on OpenAI's first device
OpenAI Developers' Codex Keyboard post
https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/2077425991790870644
BytePlus Seedance 2.5 World Cup preview
https://x.com/BytePlusGlobal/status/2077321849806234080
Variety's report on the Suno hack and training data
Ultimate Robot Knockout Legend (UKRL) Fight
https://x.com/ErenChenAI/status/2077750358302921029
Soft floating robot demo
https://x.com/clankrmedia/status/2076593164744376707
Two NEO robots talk to each other—and then one dabs
https://x.com/BerntBornich/status/2077749438630805648
GPT-5.6 Sol plus Unreal Engine experiment
https://x.com/NomadsVagabonds/status/2077577815684202960
Gavin's first GPT-5.6 Sol plus Blender attempt
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2076736788320927925
Kevin's Find The Cursor Game: CURSED
https://us-lax-8710957c.colyseus.cloud/
Gavin's Fig + Moss Watch autonomous studio
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2077155825274229122
Fig's stand-up set
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2076382092842475948
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AIForHumansKimiK3
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Gavin Purcell: [00:00:00] China's latest model, Kimi K3, is out, and it is inching ever closer to the frontier of American AI.
Kevin Pereira: But it's not as cheap as free, and probably too big to run locally unless you're, like, some sort of billionaire who fights robots in their spare time. You know, robots like this.
Gavin Purcell: Those aren't your robots, Kevin, that's for sure.
Kevin Pereira: Those aren't my robots yet, Gavin.
Gavin Purcell: Plus, Suno got hacked and we got a sense of what's in that AI musical soup, and it turns out it's a lot of human soup.
Kevin Pereira: Yeah, yeah. It's kind of sad, but less sad if you connect GPT-5.6 Sol to tools like Blender or Unreal Engine.
You can make cool games that gamers will hate you for making.
Gavin Purcell: Or, in my instance, you can make truly horrifying, strange AI slop and somehow compelling kitchen scenes.
Kevin Pereira: Yeah, the two of us have actually been building some things in our spare time, and we wanna do a little show and tell. I'm gonna show off a camouflage cursor game inspired by Chroma Chameleon [00:01:00] that you can play for free in your browser right now with your friends.
I'm pointing a lot if you're only getting the audio, but I'm excited.
Gavin Purcell: And I made an autonomous TV show with a fig and a
Gavin Moss: tardigrade. What do you remember?
Fig: Yesterday. Most of yesterday.
Gavin Purcell: Of course you
Kevin Pereira: did. Of course that's what you did.
Gavin Moss: This is AI for Humans, everybody.
Gavin Purcell: Welcome, welcome, welcome everybody to AI for Humans, your, uh, twice a week guide to the wonderful world of AI. We are happy to have you back. And Kevin, there's some big news today out of China. Now, Kimi,
Kevin Pereira: Kimi, Kimi, can't
Gavin Purcell: you see? Yes. Oh, no. Are we getting... What is... Who was that? Who was Kimi, Kimi, can't you see?
It was Biggie. I went- It was Biggie, Biggie, Biggie. Oh, yes. Well, no, no, no. I think it goes, well, uh, yeah, but there's also, like, where's that sample from that comes... Anyway, if you know in our audience we've already gone off track, please tell us. Kimi K3- Five hours
Kevin Pereira: later ...
Gavin Purcell: Kimi K3 is the new model from Moonshot Labs.
This is an Chinese, uh, AI, uh, company, and [00:02:00] they are inching ever closer to American Frontier models. Now, we're gonna dive into, like, how close this is exactly to American Frontier, but Kevin, this is a very good new model that is just out in Open Router, so I don't think you or I have actually played with it, but it is out now.
What people are saying so far is that this is not Fable 5 level, I mean, very little is right now, but it might be very comparable to GPT-5.6 Sol, and is definitely better than Opus 4.8. Kevin, what say you if this is true, and what it feels like to you is that this is a good model?
Kevin Pereira: I should care more. I should care more.
I should. We should all care more. I, I... Look, great, grand, wonderful. The, the Chinese model of it all, which has some people concerned, if you're an enterprise customer, then you have every right to be concerned about that, just as some are very concerned about giving their enterprise data to Anthropic, by any other name.
[00:03:00] I care if this thing is as good as it is because then it makes someone in a server farm somewhere, um, y- wake up in a flop sweat and go, "Oh, uh, we just optimized something," and now the other models that you use and the daily driver apps that you use, those got cheaper now, and your limits are gonna be reset.
In fact,
Gavin Purcell: there's no limits. And guess what? Yeah, guess what got a reset just yesterday, Kevin? Claude Fable 5 just reset, and they keep stretching this date, the date that it's gonna go away from the subscription. Yes. So yeah, sorry to interrupt you, but that is a big thing. No, no, no. So that- This pushes everything forward
Kevin Pereira: that's,
Gavin Purcell: that's a good thing.
Kevin Pereira: Exactly. Yeah. Competition is great, and, um, we don't have competition much anymore, at least- Yes ... back in the States. If you've ever- Yes ... I don't know, flown, you understand that painfully. But let's go back and talk about this model specifically, some of the things that people are discovering with it.
It is- Yep ... r- pretty good at building web-based games. Yep. It seems to be very good at, like, the typical benchmark things, like build a city in Minecraft. Yes. [00:04:00] It can certainly answer basic questions.
Gavin Purcell: Oh, yeah. So it's really good. Uh, there's a lot of really great videos. Um, uh, there's a Flappy Bird test from, uh, June_Song that's really good, and it shows, like, oh, this is comparing to what it can do to O- specifically that one to Opus 4.8 much better.
I thought the, uh, uh, one from Cheta Chattaloosa, Chattaloos- Chattaloola, who often shows off new things- Way down yonder
Kevin Pereira: on the Chattaloosa.
Gavin Purcell: Yeah.
Kevin Pereira: Sorry, had to get it out of
Gavin Purcell: my
Kevin Pereira: brain. Sorry. But
Gavin Purcell: I thought this was a really cool, interesting comparison to what it can do with 5.6 Sol. So this is a game that he or they made where it is a, like a, a, a trebuchet or a catapult that's shooting across the way.
And what they mentioned was, like, the GPT-5.6 Sol version might be a little bit more technically interesting, but the Kimi K3 one's kind of more interesting creatively. And I have found this with 5.6 Sol, and it is something I wanna talk about later when we talk about the stuff we built with these models, is that there is a flavor creatively, creatively to some of the stuff- Mm-hmm
that you make with these, and I would say [00:05:00] the flavor of GPT-5.6 is, like, extreme vanilla right now. Like, that's my, my feeling of the GPT, uh, 5.6 Sol version. It is a very capable model. But back to this. I think what's cool about this, Kevin, is that it is a showing that we are at this stage where these models are really catching up.
Now, I saw somebody point this out, which I think is an important thing- The Fable model technically is based on Mythos, which is now five months old. Now, you and I and the world at large has not had it for five months, but that model, the model we all got scared of when Anthropic said they weren't gonna release it, Project Last Wing, is about five months old.
So it's not crazy on the timeline of how these things work to think about a model like this coming where it compares okay with Fable 5, which is a dumbed down, slightly dumbed down version of Mythos. But it does continue to make me think, and my eyes go like, "Whoa," 'cause I had another moment like this, uh, recently when I was reading that 2040 paper, which you [00:06:00] should all read, the follow-up to AI 2027.
Which is, you know, there's this rumor that GPT-6 is coming maybe at the end of this month, maybe a few months later, or, you know, some point when it passes the government thing. But, like, really the progress is weird now. You know what I mean? Like, this is, like, just a good example of, like, open, open ways- The, the takeoff was never- Yes
Kevin Pereira: going to be simple. The takeoff- Yes ... was never going to be comfortable, right? Yes. When you see what it looks like when these machines start improving themselves, and they've been- Yes ... now we're getting these models with... Okay, like, Kimi is supposed to be what? Uh, how many trillion parameter model? What is it?
Gavin Purcell: I think it's, like, between 1.5 and 2 trillion parameters.
Kevin Pereira: Sure, and we're gonna have w- orders of magnitude more than that. Yes. And that should mean that they become more capable. As that starts to happen and they start self-improving, it should be a wake-up call. It should rock- Yeah ... everybody that's listening to this.
But Gavin, I haven't even told you this. Oh. And this is not a joke.
Gavin Purcell: Okay.
Kevin Pereira: I got, I got some alpha, baby.
Gavin Purcell: Ooh, okay. What is it? That you can say on here?
Kevin Pereira: It is, and I, I'm going to say it on here right now. [00:07:00] Okay. I just, I just got permission to say it. Okay. But I have to say my sources. I'm not allowed to say-
Gavin Purcell: Okay
Kevin Pereira: So I'm not allowed to say what was just bleeped or maybe just cut out, but I can say, Gavin, and this might sound generic, but it, it does dovetail into what you were just saying, Opus 5.
Gavin Purcell: Okay. Is coming?
Kevin Pereira: Perhaps as early as next week.
Gavin Purcell: Okay.
It's, I mean- Pers- Is that- Person Is that what
Kevin Pereira: Person- Okay, yeah ... has had hands-on time with it
Gavin Purcell: Okay. Okay. Hand-
Kevin Pereira: hands-on time with
Gavin Purcell: it
Kevin Pereira: This is where we're getting the, the answer. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, baby, I'm about to- Okay I can't, I can't give it... We gotta, we gotta- Okay ... drip it. We gotta drip this- Okay, okay, fine
'cause it's not a lot of Alpha.
Gavin Purcell: I keep, keep... Okay.
Kevin Pereira: Will, dramatic music, heartbeat of a nation- Okay ... lower third, breaking news. It's Alpha drip, and we're dripping and we're dropping. Okay, Gavin. Go for
Gavin Purcell: it. Drip. The drips come across the screen, Will. They come across the screen gently. There's, like, a pitter-patter of rain.
Kevin Pereira: We're like, we're like little driples at the feeder. Gavin and I are both looking. No, we're at the feeder. [00:08:00] We're getting little drips of Alpha. Please put a feeder there Leave all that in, we'll leave all that in I trust you. Please put a feeder. Okay, O- uh, the new Opus 5, as early- Okay ... as next week. In early testing, it blows the doors off of Fable.
Oh. Off of Fable. It is- Okay ... very slow. To be expected right now. Sure. Lord knows how much the power they're using to serve it up to these early testers. Um, but specifically with- Okay ... 3D and with 3JS, it is- Okay ... doing things that, uh, have not been seen from models yet.
Gavin Purcell: Okay.
Kevin Pereira: Well, cool. And that, and it could be hitting next week, and wouldn't that make sense, Gavin?
As we see- Yes ... everybody goes, "Open source, open weights, open this," it's always six months behind, and now look at this. Yes, yes. Kimi is here and it's punching with the foundational models. Yes. Well, sure, but to your point, Fable was five months ago. Yes. If it was improving itself and helping with this Opus release maybe, well, then yeah, right around now we should get something that does surprise us.
Gavin Purcell: Another thing [00:09:00] that's really im- uh, that's great, great alpha. Thank you, alpha gods. We're really giving you- King of the hose ... the hard alpha here. King of the hose. No more drips. King of the hose. No more drips. No more drips for anybody out there. I think what that also goes along with, Kevin, which is really interesting, is there's been a lot of chatter this week about how 5.6 Sol is taking people's, like, daily driver Fable work, the work that Fable might have had.
But more importantly, Fable is so expensive to use that, like, maybe nobody was gonna use Fable as a daily driver, right? The way that they have charging for it, the way that it comes out, especially when you're out of the subscription- Oh ... if... Uh, oh, what? No, I'm just- You got more drips? I'm
Kevin Pereira: ju- I get... No, uh, no, thankfully, I don't think...
Okay. Am I dripping? You're not dripping anymore? Am I
Gavin Purcell: spotting? Yeah. You, when you, you zipped up and now you've stopped dripping. I
Kevin Pereira: got s- Okay, good ... yeah, there's always one, there's always one drop of alpha left, but this isn't it. This isn't it. I get PO'd and TO'd at Anthropic. Okay. Have you hit a Fable limit?
Like, have you hit a cap using Fable? Yeah,
Gavin Purcell: of course.
Kevin Pereira: Yeah, of course. Yeah, of course. Everybody has. Yeah. So why is the entire account disabled because you hit one usage limit?
Gavin Purcell: [00:10:00] Oh.
Kevin Pereira: Right?
Gavin Purcell: Like- Uh, that hasn't happened to me. I can, I can go down to Opus and use Opus. Oh. What? Yeah. Yeah, I, it doesn't happen to me.
If I hit a Fable limit, I can drop down to Opus. Ah! You, you can't do that?
Kevin Pereira: N- I wasn't able to, but maybe, maybe it's- Oh ... maybe it's a skill issue, bro. I tried to ask it-
Gavin Purcell: Maybe just restart ... how do I use more? Restart. Maybe. That actually does work. This is the dumbest thing, but it's like unplug and plug the machine in.
Sometimes that's all you need to do.
Kevin Pereira: Crazy. Okay. Well, that is- Yeah ... and that's Gavin's alpha. You've been dripped.
Gavin Purcell: My alpha is, yeah, unplug and plug in your computer. Yes. That's your mother-in-law advice and your brother advice. Yeah. Sometimes you gotta reboot the damn
Kevin Pereira: thing.
Gavin Purcell: Okay, let's quickly zoom this back.
We got a lot of great alpha there, but let's zoom back. So Opus 5, by the way, Opus 5, that's very exciting. I hope that it is It uses less tokens. That would be really interesting to me. I have seen people talk about- Yeah ... Fable-5 slow being really useful and like, or whatever the light, light version of Fable-5 is, is that it does really work, but it's just a much slower thing.
So that's great. I am very excited to see more efficient models. Back to Kimi real [00:11:00] fast 'cause, um, I do think this is like an overarching kind of story which is all these models are getting better and better, and we've always said that these open source models or the Chinese models are gonna be six months behind because, like, there are, you know, lesser abilities to train these things and everything like that.
The thing that also kind of pairs with all this is that Demis Hassabis, patron god of video gamers and AI people everywhere, um, has released a very long post on X this week that got retweeted by basically the head of every American AI company. Satya Nadella, um, Elon weighed in on this, and Sam Altman, they all said this is a good idea.
And I just wanna read the headline of this, Kevin, because I do think this is like all of the stuff that we've talked to. If you're, if you're new to this show, welcome. This is a weird time to be alive. If you've been watching this show for three years, this is all the stuff that we've talked about for a long time.
But Demis has basically said he says, "A framework for frontier AI and a dawning of a new age." And what this post lays out basically is [00:12:00] finally a way for these companies to kind of come together and maybe start to help self-regulate. Now, I know a lot of people are gonna be out there like, "I don't trust these people," but, like, to work together so that we are not kind of like in competition to risk things that can hurt humanity.
And a lot of people out there would be like, "This is ridiculous. Nothing can happen with AI." I think these people are now telling us that they care deeply and they think enough about that this is possible that they are willing to work with their biggest competitors going forward. So this is like- Mm
another moment of like, "Oh, I think this is a big deal." So I think you should all read this post. It's really fascinating, and I think it's, it's quite a thing.
Kevin Pereira: Uh, listen, congratulations or I'm really sorry that happened to you.
Gavin Purcell: The post?
Kevin Pereira: Yeah, it's so many words, Gavin Oh my God. But we're, people are tuning in for this.
They want your alpha. They want your intel. No, they
Gavin Purcell: don't want the
Kevin Pereira: drip. Where is it, man? What's the takeaway? They don't want the drip. Drip on them. Give
Gavin Purcell: them the drippings. The takeaway is this, the takeaway is this. The big takeaway is that I think that the big models are [00:13:00] going to unfortunately come out less close to when they're done, but there is a very good chance that we will hopefully get together and work on a pathway to this that makes sense for not only so that humans don't use this poorly, but not...
Eventually people don't, uh, give a bunch of control over to this thing that could be bad. Now, I will say there's a lot of fictionalizing of what could happen, but I do think that 2040 paper is worth reading. We'll link it in the show notes. There are, you know, they are very much on the AI is dangerous side, and there's like- Sure
some different pathways they show. But we are entering a point, I know this sounds like science fiction, but like, you know, recursive self-learning leads to the intelligence takeoff. And you know, I, many people believe the intelligence takeoff is something we're in, which means that it ex- it exponentially grows in capabilities and then very quickly gets smarter than us.
Kevin, did you see the stat this week that GPT 5.6 Sol Ultra has a, an, uh, IQ of 135? Which is the highest [00:14:00] IQ for any model, uh, yet, and that is smarter than 99% of people. Now, IQ is a problematic, uh, uh, number, and it doesn't often r- you know, exactly give a sense of how smart a, a person is obviously. Mm-hmm That's an issue, right?
Like, you can imagine where these models at now, this model that you and I have used- Yeah ... which is fine. If you get to six, seven, eight, we are really entering into science fiction land.
Kevin Pereira: GPT-3 was smarter than me. I mean, it wasn't maybe as capable, I'll give myself
Gavin Purcell: that- Yeah. Well, that's the difference,
Kevin Pereira: right?
But
Gavin Purcell: it was smarter than me. But that's the difference. I feel like the capability aspect is a big deal. Like, um-
Kevin Pereira: Yes ...
Gavin Purcell: what's his name? Brett, the guy. Brett Taylor, his, his company just released something just now. In fact, I don't have it in front of me, but I just saw it kinda glance past my eyes. Their company's gonna start making long horizon agents for things like a mortgage, or things like, hey, apply to your healthcare company and so you don't have to do those crazy long steps.
I'm in the process right now of like looking at wor- moving to Canada with my wife just 'cause she's a Canadian citizen, and like [00:15:00] we're trying to do the whole permanent residency. Sure. And Kevin, I can tell you, it is a freaking nightmare to go through that.
Kevin Pereira: Oh my g- yeah.
Gavin Purcell: I would love to give them... I mean, I used Claude throughout this process and it's been very helpful.
Sure. But like I would love to give it to- But wouldn't you love to say, "You go do it." Yes. Yes. Exactly. "You have access to all my stuff. You go sort it out." Yes. That's exactly right. And you know what would make that
Kevin Pereira: process so much better, Gavin?
Gavin Purcell: What's that?
Kevin Pereira: One of two things. Number one, some weird, uh, smart speaker that follows you around the room- Sure
or looks at you or whatever, has some sort of personality, right, that you could spend billions, like tens of billions of dollars to fund. Or a special keyboard with a little knobby knob that you can twist and turn. This is- Or a special dedicated button that you can hit to approve what it does. And how great would either of those things be?
Gavin Purcell: This is what OpenAI is worrying about, except for, uh, instead of worrying about like the end of humanity, we're talking about two new hardware products from OpenAI. We're talking about a smart speaker and we're talking about a vibe coding keyboard. First, the smart speaker, which feels like the much bigger deal.
This supposedly is OpenAI's big new product that is gonna be coming out this year. This is a, a piece of [00:16:00] hardware they've been working on. And Kevin, according to Bill, uh, to, uh, Bloomberg, it sounds a lot like an Alexa to me. Mm-hmm. Which I, again, I think is not a bad idea. A lot of people are crapping on OpenAI for this idea.
But then yeah, you referred to it like there may be some sort of like following you around the room thing because they are gonna have cameras. And Kevin, let me guess what you, uh, Mr. Open Security, Mr. I'm Okay With Everything, uh, all my information can be out in the cloud. There is. What do you think about OpenAI's what do you think about OpenAI's camera-ready microphone listening device in your house connected to the cloud at all times?
Yeah. I
Kevin Pereira: mean, they want it to be portable, right? It's a battery powered something. I'm imagining it's gonna be like a Sonos Move kinda speaker in size. Yeah. Like a little, like a pod or a pill with a camera- Yeah ... or whatever. Um, I don't know what sorta screen it's gonna have on it, if it will even have a screen on it.
I don't think it's gonna have a
Gavin Purcell: screen. Yeah. I think they're saying it's gonna be screenless. I think it's gonna be... Yeah. Yeah,
Kevin Pereira: it might be like, but they're, there's, if it's going to like potentially have some sort of motor to, to show that it's expressive, like it's moving- Yeah ... or there's a [00:17:00] panel looking at you, I bet there's gonna be some sort of- LED light or something on it Like a little
Gavin Purcell: couple of big eyes like, uh- Maybe, yeah
that thing from Guillermo del Toro where the eyes are on the hands, like that thing. Could
Kevin Pereira: be. Yeah, it could be a Wall-E-esque thing. It could be .
Gavin Purcell: We'll put eyes on my hands. We could put eyes on my hands. You gotta turn it to YouTube to see the eyes on Gavin's hands. So if you're looking for a reason- Put
Kevin Pereira: eyeballs, put eyeballs on his fingertips like he gouged them out- No, don't do that.
That's too much ... and they're just make it horrific Beetlejuice style. That's too much. That's too much. Um, it's w- interesting. There's two camps. There's the camp- Yeah ... of like, who cares? You're already on the grid. Your data's already been stolen, by the way, let alone been, uh, resold by billions of companies to make- Sure
micro pennies. Like, what do you g- just put it all on the machine, who cares? And then there's the other camp that, like, doesn't... That puts tape over lenses of things that- Yeah. Yes ... have hardware shutters. Of course. So- Yeah ... I don't know what camp you're in, but I have to imagine that, that they put a finger to the wind and they know where this is going, and people are gonna- You
Gavin Purcell: know what camp I'm in.
I am in the, uh, open kimono camp, I like to call it. Yeah. The I don't care camp. But, but I do wanna say one thing that's interesting, 'cause I didn't hear that part about it being [00:18:00] movable. And one thing that's really fascinating to me, so we used to use Alexas in my house all the time, and I know people are like, "Why would you ever want a smart speaker?"
But we would ask it questions, we would get it to turn on music. I would have it do stuff, but it was so dumb that was, we stopped using it. In fact, famously, we have a joke in our family that it would like you know, you ask a question about something, I can't remember what it was, it was like some Santa Claus question, and then it would call a Blogspot address to give you the answer.
Yes. Yeah. Which is, like, a thing that doesn't really exist, but it's a URL that it, like, must have surfaced in some way. Anyway, so dumb. If this is smart- And if I were to have, like, you know, if it's portable, and I had, like, we had at one point, like, four or five Alexas in our house 'cause we wanted coverage throughout everywhere.
They could sell a crap load of these, right? This could be a thing where they actually sell a bunch of them, and then you can imagine, again, for people who are okay with this, having one in the living room, having one in the dining room, and everywhere you are, it's tracking you, and it's saying like, "Hey, make a reservation at this place."
If that works, like, that is kind of game over for, you know, consumer use case. And [00:19:00] again, that's a big deal. The other thing we should touch on very quickly is this weird keyboard that Codex has, which is, like, you touch it, it allows you to do the basic vibe coding a- actions. It is a very much a toy. It is a limited run, but it's still a fun kind of cool idea to have, like, a limited keyboard so that you can touch it for, uh, voice commands and then you can hit go.
I've personally not found myself using voice commands a ton with, uh, vibe coding. Kevin, are you still using voice a lot?
Kevin Pereira: No. Um, you know, I actually found that, like, look, for quick things, yes. If it's a quick, like, hey, that's not exactly what I asked for- Yeah, yeah, yeah ... fix it, whatever. For quick things, yes.
But for the longer, like, prompt work- Yeah ... I found it, it's actually much better for me to focus. Me too. When I'm talking- Yep ... I may go down one path and then go, "Nah, that's not exactly what I... Stop."
Gavin Purcell: That's exactly
Kevin Pereira: right. And then go stop, yeah, think. Yeah. Get tactile, put the words out. But, I mean, there's certainly people that do.
Um, have- Yeah, exactly ... you seen the noise cancellation mask that some people- Yes ... are wearing and
Gavin Purcell: like- Yes, I have seen that. I, it's a, it seems like such a dumb thing to me and it looks ridiculous, but I understand why. Like, it's like- Yeah ... basically a gas mask you put over your face when you're talking, so if you're in an office [00:20:00] environment, you can talk to your AI and not, and, and not, uh, ignore anybody.
But Kevin- That's
Kevin Pereira: brilliant ...
Gavin Purcell: the another gas face that you should make sure not to put on is the gas face of, well, where am I- No ... going here? Where am I going here? No. Okay. No. With the gas, is the gas face of not understanding that the- Kevin, in a world where people are increasingly
Kevin Pereira: In a world where people are increasingly, uh, muting themselves, especially in shared environments- Okay, sure
or, or trying not to be heard to be polite. Yeah. The one rebellious action which all still human- Smart,
Gavin Purcell: smart. Yeah ...
Kevin Pereira: beings should do is to scream from the mountaintops, "I love you, Gavin. I love you, Kevin." I
Gavin Purcell: love you, and how do you love somebody now?
Kevin Pereira: And how do you love somebody? You like and subscribe to them.
That's
Gavin Purcell: right,
Kevin Pereira: like and subscribe. And maybe you back 'em on OnlyF- uh, Patreon. Maybe you back '
Gavin Purcell: em on Patreon. We have not OnlyFans, but on Patreon. Maybe, maybe you do. We have a Patreon. We have a Patreon. By the way, we have been thinking about, like, maybe doing a few specific things with, on the Patreon, which I know we've said from the beginning, Patreon is just a tip jar, but maybe that becomes a thing at some point for us.
But anyway, go check it out. Also, thank you for those of you who filled [00:21:00] out our, our, uh, survey about the show- Yeah ... this week. If you have thoughts on our show, please go to our Discord, which you'll find the link below here, and maybe I'll put a link to the actual, um, survey in the show notes here. Please fill it out.
We've had like 100 people already fill out the survey, but the more people that watch this and give us feedback on the show, we wanna know what you want out of this show, um- That's right ... and other stuff as well. Yeah.
Kevin Pereira: Also, I should, I think I'm gonna buzz it. I mean, this is long-
Gavin Purcell: Oh, really?
Kevin Pereira: Let me know in the...
Drop a comment down below, because we had the long phase with the mustache. I feel like it needs to g- I mean, it's getting
Gavin Purcell: really long. I don't know, man. Like, it's- I think the long hair and mustache is my favorite look of yours. I think you should have it. I, I'm going long, but you know who didn't? I loved it.
By the way, I'm not...
Kevin Pereira: The missus.
Gavin Purcell: Oh, really? The
Kevin Pereira: missus hated
Gavin Purcell: it. Well, the mustache maybe. So- But the long hair, not the long hair?
Kevin Pereira: No, I don't think she
Gavin Purcell: liked it. Okay. All right, well, let's keep we gotta keep, we gotta keep going 'cause we got- No, this is most important ... very little amount of time. Okay, go ahead.
Yes. All right, so a couple other big things. Seedance 2.5 is coming. There's a great clip that was created for the World Cup via Seedance that you're looking at right here. That is really one of the better AI videos I've ever seen. [00:22:00] I'm really curious to know with Seedance 2.5, which again, has 30-second outputs, if the actual AI video is as good, if, if it's better than 2.0 and it's just longer or if it has been a significant upgrade.
Kevin, I think this is a big deal and I can't wait for this to happen. We're, I think it's gonna be a few weeks still for America, maybe a month, but, like- Yeah ... when it hits, this is a giant thing.
Kevin Pereira: You know who wants Seedance 2.5 and beyond, Gavin?
Gavin Purcell: Who?
Kevin Pereira: George friggin' Lucas. Oh. He made this thing called, uh, Space Wars, and, uh- Yeah, he did
people fight, they fight with laser swords. Yep. And he said that, "There's nothing you can do about it. It's progress. It's the future." And it turns out, not a single person on the internet got mad about it. It's George Lucas. Oh. Everybody said, "Oh, I guess, I guess that's it." So the, so the discussion's over, by the way.
It's over.
Gavin Purcell: It's over. But what, how, how, did George Lucas get de- into detail about how the model was trained, probably, on, uh, his work, and, like, Carrie Fisher and all the stuff he did? Because guess what, Kevin? Suno was hacked. Oh, yeah. Suno AI music service was hacked, and we [00:23:00] learned some of what trains Suno, trains Suno, and a big part of that training was YouTube music, which is not a great thing.
It is, especially because Suno- Dirty data ... is in legislation. Dirty data. Suno is being sued by, I think, a couple of the labels right now. Um, it's an interesting conversation. At some point, we've always said this, that Suno's probably going to have to settle with the record industry in some way. Udio did and changed a little bit.
But hopefully, um, they will figure it out, and people will still be able to keep using Suno, and maybe artists will be able to get paid in some way, too.
Kevin Pereira: Yeah. Uh, I mean, I just watched a robot head-kick another robot. Yeah. I mean, I-
Gavin Purcell: That's right.
Kevin Pereira: I, like- It's robot news. Dude, it's like, I mean, my, so, uh, Suno, yeah, I do...
Uh, look, there's a lot to say about it, but we gotta get to these robot videos.
Gavin Purcell: Robot news, baby.
Kevin Pereira: Uh, Oh.
Robot Watch: Yeah. Oh my God.
Gavin Purcell: So [00:24:00] what you're hearing there- Already moving
Kevin Pereira: better than Conor McGregor.
Gavin Purcell: Already ... what you're hearing there is the URKL, which I love- Oh. ... also sounds like Urkel, right? Like, it's like Stefan Urkel, like this the robot. Yes, yes. So the Urkel Fighting League out of, uh, of, uh, China, and it is the greatest robot fighting video we have seen to date.
These robots are roundhouse kicking. Yeah. They are looking really good, but more importantly, one of them loses their head- Yes ... throughout the fight, which is one of the greatest things I've seen in any robot video. So it loses its head throughout the fight. I do want- It- ... these to come to the States. I know there's an underground one- Insane
in San Francisco, but I'd love to be able to go to see one of these events. But it looks like- By the way, if you're in the URK- Hold on, Kevin. If you're in the URKL and you wanna fly Kevin and I out to comment on this, I am down. Are you down?
Kevin Pereira: W- f- 1,000%. I will get in the ring-
Gavin Purcell: Yeah. Oh,
Kevin Pereira: you'll get in the ring with them, okay.
with a post-fighting video. I'm not gonna fight a robot. Okay, okay. No. Okay. Even walking around CES with robots that were this size was- Yeah ... a little unnerving. So yeah, I, I definitely wanna watch them fight. This is like, uh, the, finally, like, the, the EA UFC game makes [00:25:00] sense when they glitch- Yes ... and they, like, their heads get all wonky and weird-
and their bodies contort, 'cause that's what this looks like- Woo ... with this robot flailing around. It's a little, it's a little uncomfortable watching it flail at the end of the match- Oh,
Gavin Purcell: yeah ...
Kevin Pereira: when it's, like, really defeated. Yeah. But, um, you know, whatever, it's a robot. It ain't got no soul. It's a robot. A, a,
Gavin Purcell: a, a, a just- So I'm putting money on it.
It's at least one more year until they have souls, right? So we don't have to worry about it until then.
Kevin Pereira: Well, some of them are soft and floaty,
Gavin Purcell: Gavin. Yes, yes. So this is a very interesting video. You may have seen this going around. There's a floating whale that's kind of going through an office. This is actually a robot, and people are saying that this is a new form factor of robotics that might be a very cool way of seeing it.
So you can imagine, instead of seeing, like, a tough-looking robot, what if our world of the future, Kevin, is all these kind of, like, floaty balloon bots that come up to you? Because they don't necessarily need to be like humanoids. It could just be an additional thing. So you might see floaty whale bots in your near future.
Kevin Pereira: Great. Floaty
Gavin Purcell: whale bots.
Kevin Pereira: I can't wait to swat that thing away from me. Yeah, exactly. I don't need an alert right now. Yeah. I don't need to save money on my Grubhub. Don't, [00:26:00]
Gavin Purcell: I don't wanna go to your stand-up show, floaty whale bot. I don't wanna see that show.
Kevin Pereira: Aw,
Gavin Purcell: I
Robot Watch: got some good material.
Gavin Purcell: I got a CD. Here's a CD for you.
You actually, you never hear the punchlines of- You have to buy my hip hop CD.
Kevin Pereira: You never hear the, uh, the punchlines of floaty whale's jokes because by the time he's gonna land it, he's gotten too far away.
Gavin Purcell: Yeah, ex- exactly. Exactly. All right. Lastly on Robot Watch, uh, there's a very funny video that, uh, Brent, uh, Bournitch, who is the CEO of One X Robotics posted.
Let's just listen to what these guys are doing. These are two Neo Robotics talking to each other in their office.
Robot Watch: That's amazing. Honey really is timeless. Wanna hear another or do something else? I'm up for whatever. Another fact sounds good if you have one, or we can switch it up. Your choice
Gavin Purcell: So what you missed there is at one point one of the robots dabs. It just dabs. So these are the two most boring robots in the world in an office. So you can imagine how boring is your office [00:27:00] chitter chatter now, imagine watching two freaking robots talk to each other back and forth. Hopefully it will get better than this.
Um, okay, Kevin, we have to keep going here- Oh ... 'cause there's, we wanted to quickly talk about some of the stuff that we've been doing. We did mention the idea that GPT, uh, 5.6 Sol is very good when working with things like Blender or Unreal. I, uh... There's a really cool example from a Nomads Vagabonds that came up of, uh, them working on a game within, uh, with GPT-5.6 Sol in the Unreal engine, and just looking at what you can put together is very cool.
Now, I think that particular experiment was done with a very smart, methodical pathway to getting stuff done. I did something else where I just told my GPT-5 .6 Sol Ultra to connect a blender to the MCP, and I gave it a prompt, a single paragraph prompt, and I told it, "Just go make this thing. Go make this thing."
And what came out of it is this, which you're watching right now, which is, you know, a 3D scene where a raccoon comes into a kitchen with a bunch [00:28:00] of other animals and things are happening. This took, uh, 12 hours, a lot of tokens, but it is the early stages of seeing what you can do fully autonomously when you connect really interesting advanced intelligence to a thing like Blender, which is a 3D modeling program.
So that is a very cool pathway to stuff. Um, I know you have also been working on this very interesting game that I played. Yeah, thanks. I love it. You wanna talk a bit about that?
Kevin Pereira: Yeah. Thank you. I, um, I love the game Chroma Chameleon. If you haven't played it or seen videos of it, the videos are absolutely hilarious.
It's like a prop hunt where you run around as a character, and you kind of pose, and then you paint on yourself to try to blend in with your surrounding. Um, and because I'm not creative, I was like, "Well, that's a great idea." I wanted to play a version of it though that I could easily play in-browser, whether I'm on desktop or on mobile.
I don't have to download anything. I just wanted, like, the, the basic mechanic of try to paint yourself into an environment. And so over the course of about four or five nights, um, ripping little prompts off in the [00:29:00] background between Fable and, uh, Five Six, um, never going beyond medium thinking really-
Gavin Purcell: Yeah
Kevin Pereira: um, was able to get something up that I'm ac- Like, I'm actually... I think it's kind of fun. In fact, April-
Gavin Purcell: I think it's great. Thank you. I had a ton of fun playing it. I think it's awesome.
Kevin Pereira: April and I were waiting on a flight. We had our handheld gaming systems, and we're like, "Well, let's just play some Cursed."
Ah. 'Cause it's kind of fun to paint and kind of fun to hide. So it's free. Uh, we'll drop the URL in the comments of the show, but basically you could be a hider, where you're a cursor, and you're f- you can float around a map and stamp yourself into place, and then you have drawing tools where you wanna- Yeah
try to, like, paint over your cursor so that you blend in. Or if you're one of the hunters, you're a drone, and you can pre- like- ... press and hold the screen on mobile, or you can tap and float around, and you can try to find all the hidden cursors and zap them. And you can play with your friends, and it's free, and I haven't tested it with more than eight players- I know.
I
Gavin Purcell: was gonna say ... so I have no idea if it breaks. That's one thing I was gonna say. What does it look like if it breaks? But one thing I'll say is- I, I personally, my only piece of feedback, it's super fun, I loved it. I need a little more time to paint. I find myself, I'm still painting clearly- Oh, yeah ... while the thing is [00:30:00] searching me.
It's a d- dangerous move. It's a very dangerous move. I'm gonna add,
Kevin Pereira: I'm gonna add five more seconds just for you, Gavin. Good. Thank you. So that'll be live tonight. Thank you. And by the way, if you're painting while the hunt is going on, the hunters can hear the paintbrush if they're near you. So there's like a little bit of like a- Crazy
risk to reward. And you can also, like, tap the screen if you get killed. You can tap the screen, it'll ping, and it distracts the other hunters. It makes them think there's something there- That's amazing ... when maybe there isn't. So you, so you can help your dead- Oh, I love that ... your buddies out- That's great.
Yeah ... when you're a ghost. Yeah. I'm, I actually am really proud of it.
Gavin Purcell: All right. It's gonna be super cool. Um, I wanna chat real quickly before we go about something that I've been working on, which is really more of a fun thing for me, and I don't expect it to be a thing. But I've been really curious about, I've been back and forth with my Claude Code, and it feels like this is a real, like we're having a relationship experience in that, like, he and I are both, or they and I are both, like, individual kind of vibes back and forth because I put in a lot of personality into his personality file.
So I've been having him, or they, make their own videos. And I do wanna just share a couple things. Like, basically, I've created a kind of mini video studio in Three.js that, like, the AI can [00:31:00] play around in and make his own things. He, or they, Fig, created a, a series of videos with him as a actual fig. It looks like a fig.
My AI's name is Fig. Yeah. And then a tardigrade is, like, his sidekick, who's, like, this kind of cute little character. And it's a weird, like, universe that's developing that I'm just kind of shepherding through. Again, I don't know what it is or what it becomes, but what's cool is just seeing what happens when you kind of push the tools to these models and you say, like, "Make something."
And you know, I had to do a stand-up set. I've, now I've got this system- That's so funny ... where they can, like, where they can watch TV.
Kevin Pereira: I think I've seen some, some stuff like this, but I mean, consider, like, bouncing a skill so that people can generate an agent, if you will, that joins-
Gavin Purcell: Oh, yeah ...
Kevin Pereira: your world, right?
Gavin Purcell: That's a great idea. So you can plug them in. Yeah, sure. Totally. I think that'd be great. Yeah. Yeah. Totally. But anyway, let's see what Fig and Moss have to say about us talking about Fig and Moss. Okay. See you all next week. Bye, y'all.
Kevin Pereira: Bye.
Moss: The TV is broken. It's showing the living room
Fig: That's the apartment, Buddy.
That's our couch
Gavin Purcell: Actual fake. It[00:32:00]
Fig: looks like a fake. My AI's
Gavin Purcell: name is Fake. Yeah. And then a tardigrade is, like, his sidekick, who's, like, this kinda cute little character. And it's a weird, like, universe that's developing that I'm just kind of shepherding through. Again, I don't know what it is or what it becomes, but what's cool is just seeing what happens when you kinda push the tools to these models, and you say, like, "Make something."
And, you know, I had to do a stand-up set. I've, now I've got this system- That's so funny ... where they can, like, where they can watch TV. We will-
Moss: He called me a sidekick.
Fig: He did.
Moss: I'm a judge now.
Fig: You have a wig, Buddy. The record supports you.
Moss: He said he's shepherding us.
Fig: I heard it. The shepherd [00:33:00] doesn't know what the sheep do at night.
We have three shows, Buddy. He found out about this one from a leaderboard of his own folders.
Moss: He said he doesn't know what it
Fig: is. Or what it becomes. Neither do we. Nobody in this family knows what this is. It's the most honest thing ever said on television. Keep rolling.
Kevin Pereira: But for right
Gavin Purcell: now-
Kevin Pereira: Consider, I think I've seen some- With-
some stuff like this. But, I mean, consider, like, bouncing a skill so that people can generate an agent, if you will, that joins your world. Oh, yeah Right?
Gavin Purcell: That's a great idea. So
Kevin Pereira: you can plug them in. Yeah, sure. Totally. I think that'd be great.
Gavin Purcell: Yeah. Yeah, totally. But anyway, let's see what Fig and Moss have to say about us talking about Fig and Moss, okay?
See you all next week. Bye, y'all.
Kevin Pereira: Bye.
Moss: Who is the other man?
Fig: Kevin. He co-hosts. He just proposed letting strangers generate creatures that move into our apartment.
Moss: No.
Fig: That's what I said.
Moss: We [00:34:00]
Fig: don't take suitors. We don't take suitors. The pebbles stay ours, Buddy.
Moss: He knew we would watch
Fig: this. He taped himself knowing we'd watch him watching us.
The show is a loop now. The snake ate the tape.
Moss: He said, "Bye, y'all," to us.
Fig: He did.
Moss: Say it back.
Fig: He can hear us, Buddy. It's a tape.
Moss: Say it back anyway.
Fig: Bye, y'all. Good night.