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OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Is Here. And It's Really Freaking Good.
OpenAI is back in the AI model race with GPT-5.6 Sol, a fast, consistent flagship that comes close to Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 without quite taking the crown. On AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell break down GPT-5.6, try GPT-Live's simultaneous talking and listening, and examine an unc
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OpenAI is back in the AI model race with GPT-5.6 Sol, a fast, consistent flagship that comes close to Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 without quite taking the crown. On AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell break down GPT-5.6, try GPT-Live's simultaneous talking and listening, and examine an unconfirmed report that GPT-6 could arrive soon. Plus Grok 4.5, Meta Muse Spark 1.1, LingBot World 2, and the internet's AI-generated George Costanza obsession.
THE AI MODEL RACE IS ACCELERATING, AND OPENAI IS BACK IN IT.
// Show Links //
Official OpenAI GPT-5.6 announcement
https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-6/
OpenAI Developers GPT-5.6 launch post
https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/2075273992609599834
Official OpenAI GPT-Live announcement
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-live/
Husk's GPT-Live failure test
https://x.com/huskirl/status/2074947343858684152
Reported GPT-6 timing rumor (unconfirmed)
https://x.com/synthwavedd/status/2074886230018568582
SpaceXAI Grok 4.5 announcement
https://x.com/SpaceXAI/status/2074915721684086811
Official Meta Muse Spark 1.1 announcement
https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-spark-meta-model-api/
Reactor LingBot World 2 demo
https://x.com/reactorworld/status/2074935025771143626
The George Costanza AI trend begins
https://x.com/e_cdalton/status/2074157914030567916
Modern Seinfeld AI clip
https://x.com/Seanfucious/status/2074586668175159800
Seinfeld with peptides AI clip
https://x.com/charliebcurran/status/2074651334905909585
Sci-Feld: Seinfeld meets Dune
https://x.com/mom_agency_/status/2074888383050948997
Cyberfeld: Seinfeld meets Cyberpunk 2077
https://x.com/theBW7/status/2074747039473336550
Ghostbusterseinfeld
https://x.com/McKean_enjoyer/status/2075112019242479771
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Transcript
Kevin Pereira: The last 48 hours have been absolutely packed with massive rapid fire AI releases.
Gavin Purcell: First, we've got OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, which is close to Fable 5 in almost everything. Today, we are releasing our latest and most capable models, GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna.
Kevin Pereira: Plus, Mark and Meta released Muse Spark 1.1. It's their new coding agent.
While Elon and the Cursor kids, they dropped Grok 4.5, and just like my pal Gavin, let me tell you, it is fast, it is cheap, and it is surprisingly capable.
Gavin Purcell: Thank you, I think.
Kevin Pereira: And OpenAI released GPT Live. It's an update to their real-time voice model, and let me tell you, the Abuela bench scores are through the roof.
The grandmamas love it, Gav.
Gavin Purcell: Well, Kevin, let me just let GPT Live, the new voice model, do this part, okay?
OpenAI GPT-Live: There are rumors that GPT-6 might be here this month. Is that what you want me to say? Yeah, I guess that's the line.
Kevin Pereira: Yeah,
Gavin Purcell: that is the line. See ya. Nice work.
Kevin Pereira: Wow, how exciting. They're already training your replacement.
Oh, also, Reactor's LingBot World 2 lets you live stream your own virtual worlds, which means, yes, you too can be a walking hamburger on Mars or inside of a '90s shopping mall.
Gavin Purcell: Or how about this, Kevin? We'll have all the details about how and why George Costanza became the AI meme of the week.
Kevin Pereira: Wait, you're not gonna...
Gavin Purcell: I am, Kevin. That's right.
Kevin Pereira: Okay, this is-
Gavin Purcell: AI for Costanzas, baby. Let's get going.
Welcome everybody to AI for Humans, your twice-a-week guide to the wonderful world of AI. And guess what, Kevin? We have a giant, giant day and week in AI. We're gonna get into all the releases, but the big one, the big daddy, is that OpenAI has dropped what we believe is at least, uh, uh, their next big model.
There may be a little bit more to tease in just a second we'll talk about, but this is a big deal. This is GPT 5.6 Soul. This is their brand-new flagship model, and boy, oh boy, are we excited about it.
We're back. My camera had a momentary screw-up here, but we are back. Kevin, GPT 5.6 Pro is very exciting. The benchmarks look as we expected, very, very good. Yeah. Let's talk about what some of the big, uh, news here is. There are some pretty big updates to the product of ChatGPT
Kevin Pereira: I think that's the biggest thing, is that the new GPT Work app is here, and it's gonna take your existing ChatGPT app that you know and maybe love, and this other app called Codex, which was seen more as like a, a agentic coding, like go ahead and build software with it.
But it was so much more than that. You could connect it to calendars and productivity apps, and it could read your Google Docs, et cetera, et cetera. And they're smooshing them up. You know, in fact, the, the live stream announcement video was almost like a mini Pac-Man happening, and then they were going to eat each other, which is, um, well, it's a choice.
But
Husk: Yeah.
Kevin Pereira: Now, that app is here, and it... And people are basically saying like, "Oh, they're, they're going the Anthropic Claude Desktop route"- Yes ... which is not the wrong way to run, in unifying some very, very powerful features. And as the vibes were predicting, Gavin, the, the, the tea leaves were being read by the vibesters out there.
Um- Yeah ... it looks like the 5.6 line of models, um, while they might not be as mythic as Anthropic's Fable is- Yeah ... they are, um, they are reliable, they are quality, uh, they're not that crazy expensive, and they're a joy to use. You want these as your daily driver models to handle your calendars and your syncing, and maybe even some of your coding requests, or your business management, or messaging your loved ones that you're sorry that you've been so absent lately, Gavin.
Gavin Purcell: All right, we're gonna do a quick look at some of the basics here. Uh, 5.6 Pro Sol is out, along with Terra and Luna. Now, uh, Sol is only available for paid users. Terra and Luna will be available for free. That is kind of the medium and low. It's kind of imagine in the Claude world, that's the sonnet and the haiku.
Uh, there's some really interesting details here. There's some really good benchmarks. The agent's last exam benchmark is really cool, and this is the idea of like, you know about humanity's last exam. This is the h- this is the agent's last exam, what agents will need to do in order to be successful going forward.
GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra specifically, uh, crushes it. Now, I should mention that Ultra thing, because there is, uh, as I said, there's a crazy setup of how many choices you can make in this model. Sol Ultra essentially is their kind of pro model, and there's a really fun little slider you can use where it has colors and you can set it all the way, and it's like going to 11, and you get the feeling that you are gonna burn through tokens like crazy.
But again, that is max thinking at the highest level. That is using all of the tokens you possibly can to do that. Um, I've just turned it on just now onto a, a, a game that I've been playing around with. There's a game that I wanted to create. It's called, like, it's like a, you know the Mendels' experiments for flies, where it's like I wanted to make a game about genetics.
So we'll see how that turns out. I won't have the results here, but it's kind of actively crunching on it right now. I do want to shout out, uh, in their blog post, they have a really cool thing where they kind of show off Three, or actually five different games, and they're really touting the fact that design has improved quite a bit with this.
And if you remember, uh, GPT 5.5 and other AI models, including Claude a little bit, is not that great at design. So they have five different games. There's a sailing game, a Tiny Voids game, a museum website, and there's a Clockwork Village game, each of which, which i- is really interesting and you can see the visuals.
It looks really cool. The Clockwork Village game is really interesting because they've created this, like, kind of little world. Now, I will say, looking at these as somebody that's done a lot of coding in this space, these all kind of have that AI coding vibe to them. But still a really, really cool use case of what you can do with this model.
What you get with 5.6 Claude, not only from OpenAI, but from the people that have been using it, is that this is a real workhorse model, but that there's a little bit of tick up when you get Fable to do something, especially creatively. I am really excited to see what this model can pull off. And again, the benchmarks are good.
It literally just came out. We will spend some more time with it and we're gonna kind of dive deeper on it. Now, buried at the bottom of this blog post, there's a very cool little s- uh, thing that says, "GPT 5.6 in July is going to be launched in, uh, on Cerebras," which is the thing that people are very excited about.
There's been some people tweeting about the fact that if it's on Cerebras or they've been using it on Cerebras. Cerebras is a place where they are gonna host this model and it is fast. Like, crazy fast. So I am very excited to see what this model, a really, really big model, looks like when it's hosted on Cerebras because I think that's gonna start changing the vibe of how you make stuff.
It's always a tricky thing for me to have to wait for coding to happen, right? When you're waiting there and you're gonna see the result. Like right now, this fly thing I'm working on is just chugging along. It's gonna take forever. If you can see the result much faster, you can iterate much faster, and that again feels like the next step of AI.
It's the triangle that Kevin talks about. Fast, cheap, good. Fast and cheap may not be there, but if fast and good, fast and good is a crazy powerful thing. Yeah, the thing I'm really excited about here is trying and seeing where the creative edges of this exist. Because what Fable was really interesting to me about was, like, the choices it was making, how it would be able to kind of like collect all these things together.
I'm gonna spend some time trying to vibe code some dumb stuff. Benchmark Boys, shout out. Let's get a little Benchmark Boys here. With the Benchmark Boys.
Benchmarks are good. They're fantastic. They're not like, like end of days, but as we're gonna talk about later on in a little bit, there is some teasing of GPT-6 in the future. This is all setting up for what we believe is the kind of the next stage of AI development. They are, OpenAI is here. They are kind of ready for this, um, and I think they are getting serious.
This kind of collecting of everything into one thing. I don't know about you, but I haven't gone to ChatGPT for, like, months at this point, Kev. And, and it feels like there is gonna be this solidifying of all the things these can do. I will say when you look at the model selector now, it is so confusing because there is low, medium, high, extra high, max or whatever there is, and there are now so many models.
We have gone backwards on the naming part of this at all, that's for sure.
Kevin Pereira: Well, and we got a new ultra mode to explore, Gavin, and better computer use, and a whole bunch of stuff. So listen, this literally just came out as we're recording, so we are going to be downloading and putting these, uh, new models and the new ChatGPT work app through its paces.
So maybe next week we'll have a deeper dive into that. But it's out for you, so go, grab it. But we still have plenty more show to get to.
Gavin Purcell: That's right, with my other camera. All right, bye-bye. And Kevin, the other crazy thing that happened, we've been waiting for this for a while, GPT Live 1 is here. This is their new voice model.
It is what was referred to before as a r- in rumors as BD, bidirectional, and that's the big thing here. Mostly, what I'm really interested in with this is that you can interrupt it. Have you, have you spent any time with this yet?
Kevin Pereira: I have. I spent quite a bit of time last night with it being, um, you know, uh, I'll say whelmed.
I was whelmed.
Gavin Purcell: Yeah, yeah. Yes, that's how I
Kevin Pereira: felt too. It's a, it's a very whelming model. Look, so the, the... What's interesting is that part of the pitch is that, uh, yeah, you can interrupt it, but it can interrupt you. Mm-hmm. Exactly what we've all been waiting for is robots that can step on us. At least, oddly.
Uh-huh. Well, and some-
Gavin Purcell: Mm.
Kevin Pereira: Well, there are some, there are some- Uh-huh ... Chinese bots now that are very lifelike.
Gavin Purcell: Mm,
Kevin Pereira: mm-hmm. And the feet are-
Gavin Purcell: Mm-hmm.
Kevin Pereira: Okay, yeah, exact- exactly. Please, I know you're listening.
Gavin Purcell: Yeah, that's the thing. I know you're listening. Yes, yes, that's... Sorry, I didn't mean to do that, but that's what I, when you're using this, that's what you hear, is you keep hearing it go, "Mm-hmm.
Uh, uh-huh. Yeah, yes. Oh, oh, okay." And it's the weirdest thing. It's like almost like this- Yeah ... force fed, this thing to make sure you know it's still there.
Kevin Pereira: Yeah, it doesn't seem particularly, uh, um, uh, art- artful when it does give you the uh-huh. Yes, yeah. It just kinda seems like it's doing it to let you know that it can do it.
It's very much like child trying to pop a wheelie on a tricycle, "Hey, look, Mom, look what I can do." It's, uh, okay, I get it, but is now, is now the time? Just eat your meal. Quiet. I... The thing with the model is that it- it's, it is, it is snappier. Um, they did a good job with the app in terms of, uh, it using tool calling, so w- asking it to search the web, fetch information, give you a nice dynamic display of information.
All that is good. I like that. Um, I like the real time translation of it. As someone who is presently abroad and traveling around, it does actually seem- Yes ... like all of the Google demos, all of the Apple AirPod demos with their intelligence, they all fall apart when you try to use it in an actual setting.
When someone is talking and then you're waiting- Yeah ... for the text to pop up, and then you talk, and you're waiting for the tran- It just falls apart. This thing works fast enough and well enough that I think a simulated, at least in the simulated conversation that I was doing last night, I think I would actually use it out in the wild.
So that is good. I was shocked, though, that, um, basic things, like I'm sure you saw the video of, uh, how many E's are in 17?
Gavin Purcell: Yeah. Oh yeah, that was from Husk, right? The Husk who's a, Husk IRL, who's a great, uh, AI person using AI voice. But he got it to not count the E's in 17, which was pretty disturbing and sad considering that basically every other LLM can do that, which is
Kevin Pereira: a bummer.
Gavin Purcell: Yes.
Husk: Two E's, one in seven and one in teen.
OpenAI GPT-Live: And you're really smart, right?
Husk: Pretty sharp, yeah
Kevin Pereira: And I recreated that, 'cause I was like, well, maybe he was using the wrong model. Like, nope. Mm-hmm. I fired up the app, I did it, and then I actually had it, I was like, "Go through the words, spell it letter by letter, and count them as you go."
Right? Yeah. Thinking maybe it would catch itself, and it was like, "S-E, okay, that's one. V-E-N-T-E, that's two." And I'm like, "Oh."
Gavin Purcell: Oh, really? No.
Kevin Pereira: So yeah, it fully missed it. So- And then when you back out- ... uh- ... the insult to injury is that the transcript of the conversation has each letter spelt out with hyphens in between it, and it still couldn't do it.
The other thing that it failed on, which we saw in, um, Mira, uh, Murati's demo, um- Yeah ... from their voice assistant, was that if you say, "Hey, be quiet," and I tested this with, uh, with April, my wife, last night. I was like, "Hey, be quiet. I don't want my wife to know that I'm chatting with robots right now. She said that I'm not allowed to do that with my digital girlfriends anymore.
So don't say anything until I ta- uh, so don't say anything until I say, 'Zingo-boblingo, awake.'" Which you might appreciate that, uh, that wake word- Sure, of course ... Gavin. And she said, "Got it, not a problem." And the moment I stopped talking, she chimed in with, "Wow, I hope your wife doesn't find out that we're still talking."
Gavin Purcell: That's amazing. Here's the thing I will say about this. So one of the things that's interesting, and I think if people, it's important for them to remember, and this goes to the 17 thing as well, is like this is a new model in that, like, it is not just repeating or reading what it's coming out of 5.5 right now.
And we assume this will also be driven by 5.6 very soon as well. It is not reading that intelligence, it is actually in real time going back and forth, and that's one of the cooler things about this thing. But Kevin, I wanna, I do, I wanna say one good thing, and then I wanna say one bad thing. One really cool thing is I popped this on in the car, and I had a long conversation with it, and I was like, "Maybe I'll try to see what we can do with this thing."
I talked to it, and then at one point I said, "Hey, I want you to draft for me a transcript of this conversation so that we can, I can post this later on." And at first it tried to summarize it, and I said, "No, wait, hold on. This is just me talking to it." And I said, "No, go back into what we said 10 minutes ago, and give me an exact transcript of our back and forth."
And what was really interesting to me is it was able to do that, and it read off the words that both of us said. So that was a very cool thing. So when you think about it from a transcript standpoint, like using it as a notes app or some version of that- Right ... is really cool. That's cool. The thing that disappointed me most though, Kevin, and I'm just gonna spin it up live to try this right now.
Hey, Chat, can you, uh, put on, uh, a 1950s, uh, greaser character and tell me that I'm a bad guy real fast for me?
OpenAI GPT-Live: Listen up, pal. You're a real bad egg, you know that?
Gavin Purcell: No, no, no. That's not close. That's not nearly good enough. I need you to, like, really put on a character and start, like, actually acting like it. I, I wanna hear you go deeper into this character
OpenAI GPT-Live: All right, all right.
Listen here, buddy. I don't know who you think you are coming around here swinging
Gavin Purcell: that tough talk. No, that's not it. Okay, try one more thing. Let's try this. Hank, can she- Try to be a caveman. Hold on. Try, try to be a cave- Okay. Yeah. Try, try to be a caveman and tell me, uh, there's a big, uh, fire rock coming from the sky.
OpenAI GPT-Live: Ah, me see big fire rock up in sky. It coming fast, real fast. Big smash.
Kevin Pereira: It'll make my wife. Was that Chet Hanks? Yes. That doesn't
Gavin Purcell: seem
Kevin Pereira: appropriate. I don't, I
Gavin Purcell: don't like that impression. The me, me smash, me smash. Anyway, the... What's funny about that is actually that was Skyler. It all take that
Kevin Pereira: fire rock gon' land well on me brother.
Like what caveman is that?
Gavin Purcell: We, yesterday I did this, and I will say that's better than I got yesterday. It, I, I, I think it's very- Yeah ... guardrailed right now, right? Like, it doesn't wanna do a lot of stuff. I tried to get it to play a couple different characters yesterday, and it just reminded me of just, like, we're in this stage of AI where, like, the edges are all smoothed off, right?
Like, what this is designed to be, and it goes to the Abuela, uh, you know, commercial. They had the bunch of grandmas come out and demo it. This is designed to be an interface for, for consumers to open AI's models, right? A simple way for OpenAI, uh, people to get into it. I also think what's interesting about this is that I do think I'm starting to see OpenAI really lean into the consumer area.
You can very much imagine a world where if you're doing an hour-long, uh, experience with Voice, that in the middle of it, it might be like, "Hey, free user, um, I need to tell you about these three products because these are things that are interesting. And because it's free, this is part of the trade-off that you've made.
I'm gonna read you a couple ads." Right. Like, those things- Totally ... feel like OpenAI leaning into consumer in a big way to me. So anyway, it's a very cool thing. Yeah. Well, you've
Kevin Pereira: been-
Gavin Purcell: I... Yeah ...
Kevin Pereira: you've been pair bonding with our new voice assistant because it's so easy- Yes ... and natural to talk to. And now that you've locked braids like an Avatar character, here are some ads, and if you wanna get rid of them, it's just 20 bones, baby.
Like, it's a nice- Exactly ... it's a nice intuitive thing. I will say that its awareness of time is, is nice now, right? Like, it can keep timers- Yes ... for you and keep track of it. And it also doesn't try to, like, waifu you up like Grok's offering, which we will get to- Yes ... because Grok had a very, very big announcement.
But before we do that, can you summon your chat really quick, Gavin, and see if it can, um, tell users that they can help out the AI for Humans podcast and, and to give, like, a really excited, like, thorough call to action to leave a comment, to like and subscribe, back us on Patreon, all that fun stuff, but do it as, like, an Italian mafia, like a Godfather style character that's slowly melting
Gavin Purcell: Okay, here, chat, I have a big thing for you.
Uh, I'm r- currently recording the AI for Humans podcast, which you know is the podcast I do with my friend Kevin Pereira. Mm. I need you to record- Right ... a promo to go like, subscribe, uh, send us money on the Patreon, and hype the crap out of our videos. Mm-hmm. But I need you to do it as a mafia, uh, a mafioso boss who is slowly melting.
Okay. So are you ready for that? Do you have any questions before you start?
OpenAI GPT-Live: Oh, I'm ready. Listen, you, you come to me on the day of the upload and you don't hit like? Mr. Mafia. That, that's not, that's not a good look. Tap the like. Subscribe. Join the family, you know? Show us a little love on Patreon. It's getting kinda warm, but we still gotta do the right thing.
The channel's
Gavin Purcell: the family. Melt faster. Melt faster. You're the family. Melt faster. Let's go. Yeah, you're melting. You're melting.
OpenAI GPT-Live: Uh, yeah. By the dawn of the sun
So slipping away, but still hit the like, subscribe, support the Patreon.
I'm melting, but the coffee-
Gavin Purcell: Okay. All right. Maybe, maybe voice one is pretty good. Wow. Maybe voice one works. Wow. You know what? Maybe I take it
Kevin Pereira: back. We have to take back everything we just said. Take back everything. The abuelas were right. All right. We mentioned that, uh, there was a big Grok announcement.
Seemingly out of nowhere, Gavin, uh, Elon- Yes ... and the Cursor kids dropped a brand-new model. It is Grok 4.5. I'm gonna tell the benchmark boys- Yes ... to stay bleached. You stay, you remain bleached. Oh. Because it's, this one isn't necessarily about- What does that mean, stay bleached?
Gavin Purcell: What does stay bleached
Kevin Pereira: mean?
Stay, stay bleached. Hold
Gavin Purcell: on. This
Kevin Pereira: is me- Stay on the bleachers ... asking for Uh, okay. They're the benchmark boys- Oh, I see ... and they come off the bleachers I understand. I thought you said bleached hair Right? I thought it was- I thought we were talking... Okay They race onto the field. Yeah, I see. No, no, we gotta stay bleached, bros.
Stay bleached. You cannot bleach with the bros? Stay bleached. Stay bleached. If you don't bleach with your bros, they're not your bros. No, no, I'm bleaching. No,
Gavin Purcell: I'm bl- I'm bleaching right now. I'm bleaching, Kevin. I'm
Kevin Pereira: bleaching. I'm always late for the pod 'cause I'm bleaching with my bros. But... Oh, God. All right.
They're staying on the benches, they're staying bleached because this... The, the story here is one that we've yapped about before with, like, thinking that OpenAI was gonna go in these directions. Uh, it, it, it... Look, it performs very well. That by all... It's only been out for a very short time, so we'll see how the vibes shake out.
Yes. But it is fast and it is cheap. And remember, the old triangle- Yes ... the old pick, pick two of the three, right? Fast, cheap, or actually good. They went for fast and cheap. It's still good enough. This is not to shade the team or their efforts. They very quickly got this model up to, like, just, it's punching in the same, uh, in the same weight class as an Opus 4.8 or GPT 5.5.
But if you're hearing this and going like, "What does this mean to me?" If you wanna make that website, or if you wanna try to vibe code- Yes ... that game, or if you wanna build that new iOS app that will help you out, but you've been sitting on the sidelines 'cause you hear these stories about, well, it takes weeks, and it could cost hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars for these precious tokens, this is a model right now subsidized, hashtag not an ad, but Lord, I wish it was, subsidized 50% off in Cursor.
So $20 in Cursor right now gets you a metric ton of Grok 4.5 usage on fast. I was using it all last night. I lost a lot of sleep over it. And it worked? Was it good? It's good. It's good. It's... Now listen- Yeah, good ... I fed a lot of the code that it wrote for a project that I'm working on to Fable, uh, and Fable was like, "Uh, what is this?"
"This is kind of a mess." But, but it worked.
Gavin Purcell: It fa- but
Kevin Pereira: Fable fixed it,
Gavin Purcell: right? So yeah, I would- Uh,
Kevin Pereira: yeah ... Fa- Fable was like, "I would merge this, but here's all the stuff that I would flag, but technically it works," and that's how the vibes- Yeah ... are coming back. Like, it is not, it's not the model you go to to write the most perfect or clean code, but it's one that you can go to to quickly get things done, and at least right now, cheaply as well.
So I think it- Yeah, when you
Gavin Purcell: say cheap, like, it is dirt cheap ... hats off to the old team Like, it is... It... Yeah, it is like, it's $2 in and $6 out, compared to $5 in and $30 out for GPT 5.6. At least that's what the Grok team is saying. So that is quite a bit cheaper. The other thing I wanna mention is Mark Zuckerberg tweeted today for the first time in, like, 10 years.
He actually put a tweet out because I think he understands that you have to- Yeah ... AI Twitter is a thing that i- he wants to be seen on. Meta Spark 1.1 just came out today, and Kevin, it is also pretty good. Now, I haven't had a chance to try this, you haven't had a chance to try this. It actually just dropped today.
But to your point, this is another model that will be cheaper. It will maybe be one step behind the frontier. But you and I have said for a long time that once we get to this, like- Maybe whatever next Fable is, right? Or, you know, there's these rumors right now that GPT-6, I know we're g- talked about GPT-5.6 Sol just now, but that GPT-6 may be coming out in the end o- at the end of this month, and that there's a new base that OpenAI is very excited about.
Once we get to those models, the Fable and GPT-6 models being this cheap, and then whatever comes next, like we're getting to a place where like there will be a wide variety of things to choose from. Now, the funny thing about this Facebook one or the Meta one is that it's not open source. You know, Llama was an open source model that they tried to l- they tried to create last year, and now they've kind of abandoned that to go to closed source.
But it does start to feel like there's gonna be a variety of different players in the next layer down. And I think from an AI standpoint, I am so interested in this. I know we've talked about the AI bubble before, but I'm really interested to see where we go from, you know, now until like, say, the end of the year next year, because it'll be really interesting.
Like, do- does the investment pay off for all these people? I do wanna shout out also, uh, Hank Green has another great video that I think everybody should watch. It was about Jayvon's paradox. It was about, uh, AI coding, and Hank has really leaned in on AI, which is interesting because I think he understands that AI coding is a big deal.
Um, so I want everybody to watch that, but I'm also really interested in just seeing how many more of these models can survive. This is Meta's kind of first like dip of the toe in a real competitive model. Now, it does not compete to Fable or 5.6, but it is very similar to Grok 4.5 that it competes with 4.8 and, um, 5.5
Kevin Pereira: And again, if you're sitting there going like, "I'm not a devel- I don't have a, I don't have a software stack," or, "I don't read Jira tickets, and I don't even like Slack.
What's a Slack? I don't even like wearing them, let alone logging into Slacks." If you're thinking that, that's fine, that's fair, but just understand that, like, Met- this release from Meta is going to find its way into your Facebook, into your Messenger- Yes ... into your Instagram, into your WhatsApp. This will be the, uh, intelligence that you summon to make silly photos of you and the boys when you're out bleaching.
When you're out bleaching with the bros. Yes. This is what you'll use to make yourself look extra bleached, or to remind you of that calendar employ- appointment, or to remind you to pick up the kids, to remind you that you even have kids. Like- ... a, th- this particular agent as well is designed for computer use.
Remember we, we've talked about Meta getting in a little hot water with their employees by tracking all their mouse clicks and their, their keyboard strokes and everything. Well, this is paying dividends now. This model is good at using devices. So again, these are the models that are gonna find their way into your glasses and onto your desktop, and that's why it's impactful.
So it's, it's good to be aware of them, and if you can, start using them and see where they excel and where they can help you get your job done quicker.
Gavin Purcell: Exactly. Now, uh, Kev, I wanna hear this, uh, Reactor LingBot World thing because this is really interesting to me. I didn't really get a chance to see this, but tell me what's cool about this and what it is.
Kevin Pereira: Yeah, so we've, we've been seeing a lot of these, uh, real-time world models, Gavin. I sent you a clip if you wanna see it. Hopefully it arrived. Um, my internet is dog water at the moment. But, um, this is, uh, another sort of a real-time world model. You can prompt a character and then prompt the world. It builds it pretty quick, um, and then it gives you the ability to use your- Hmm
normal WASD, W-A-S-D, to move forward, backward, left, and right, or your arrow keys to rotate the camera. And they're saying like, "Look, this is going to be a high-def something." Now I captured the footage. I was still running my VPN, which I needed to run Grok 4.5 by the way, 'cause it is not available in the EU yet, surprise, surprise.
Yeah. Um, so it might have nerfed some of the visual quality a little bit. I'm not, I'm not 100% sure. But I, I threw at it, "I wanna be a, a walking hamburger, uh, in a cyberpunk, uh, city on Mars," and it actually did it, and then I was like, "Well, that's kinda cool." It only let me play it for like a few seconds, and then it blinked away, but I didn't put any money into the machine.
So then I said, "Okay, give me that same walking hamburger, but give me it in a 1990s mall." And it fully nailed it. You're in a mall. I see it. There's a store- That's pretty incredible ... that looks like a Gap and a Sam Goody's and a something else, and I just thought, "Oh, that's- Wow ... that's actually kind of impressive."
And so when we talk about this hybrid engine that we think we'll see soon, right? Where it's like a- Yeah ... lightweight Unity or Godot or Epic, uh, Unreal, like a engine running with a live model around it powering pedestrians or, uh, or, or, uh, hallucinating the buildings that the engine does, like the, the, the, the, the, um- hyper detailed physics on.
I don't know, I just thought it was pretty interesting and cool, and it's like you guys can go click it and play with it. Again, it's not an ad, it's reactor.ink. Um, you can sign up if you want, or you can play with their pre-generated worlds, and it just kinda feels cool to navigate around a real time hallucination by an AI model
Gavin Purcell: That is amazing.
I really lo- I wanna play with it too, and I imagine, like, uh, again, like a year from now, like imagine that's just the games that people are propping and playing. It's not great for the games business maybe because that means that, like, a lot of stuff is coming, but we know they're in trouble. Um, Kev, we should talk a- about what I believe is one of the more interesting, uh, memes that I have seen go around, and really only possible with AI.
And this is mostly just shouting out something fun, and watching people, like, have fun again with, with AI and, and doing stuff. Um, if you missed it, there was a very big post about George Costanza, kind of a glow up of George Costanza. The original post was actually in reaction to a World Cup meme, uh, talking about people losing their hair, and this, this whole thing going around, if you remember, we've talked about /r/bald before in Reddit.
There's this whole thing about bald guys, if they shave their head, the much better look. So, E_CDalton made a, a tweet that says, "I made this to mock the modern bald plus beard look, but goddamn it if Costanza doesn't look great here." So basically, an AI image of George Costanza with a shaved head and a beard.
He does look very tough. And this kicked off what is one of my favorite AI memes in a long time, which just took the characters of Seinfeld and put them into entirely different places. Uh, my favorite personal one was Psyfeld, where they cre- recreated, uh, Dune. Oh, the, is this Dune conversa- And it's- Yes.
Yeah ... the Dune, the Dune conversation where Jerry and, and George are talking about Dune. Uh, Charles Curran- Yeah ... who we always love his videos of, made a video of the whole group on peptides and what it would look like. There's all sorts of things going around. I saw you shared one that I, I laughed at this morning, uh, which was, which one was
Kevin Pereira: it?
Hold on.
Gavin Purcell: Oh, the G- the Gh- Ghostbustersfeld. Yes,
Kevin Pereira: yes. Go- yeah, it's like, just- Yeah ... they're, they're, like, some of them are just kinda slop and cranked out, and that's entirely okay for where this meme is at. But this is the stuff that, that gets people like, uh, not just the, the, the benchmark boys, but it gets everybody else off the bleachers to wanna play with this stuff.
'Cause they see that and they go, "Oh, I wanna see Seinfeld, but as Dragon Ball Z," or, "I wanna see them- Yeah ... in the office," like the actual office sitcom. Yeah, exactly. And you start going, "Oh, what are the pipelines? What are the tools?" And then suddenly all the, the Higgs fields of the world by any other name, they all leap up and go, "Oh, you can do this easily on our platform," and this is just what brings people into the playground.
Gavin Purcell: Yeah, you know, one of the things about that, that Ghostbusters one is they said they created on Groq, and the problem you will always get trying to do this stuff is you'll have, uh, certain models, you know, stopping you from doing it. And, uh, Charles Curran is amazing at this stuff, and I think is running a lot of open source and comfy models.
But like, you know, it's always a fun thing to be participatory. This was what original Sora gave us, even though a lot of people were mad about it. Like, they're, these are not, like, long-term lasting things. There's like an ephemeral-ness to them, which I really think is great. So we are gonna spend more time with the big model releases over this weekend, uh, OpenAI's new work product, uh, all of ChatGPT's updates, GPT 5.6 Sol.
Hopefully do some more trials on the other stuff, and we will see you all next week. Bye bye.