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OpenAI's Path to AGI: Cancel Sora, Launch a Potato

OpenAI killed Sora, cancelled Spicy Chat, and went all in on enterprise and AGI. Their next frontier model is called Spud. Yes, like the potato.  This week on AI For Humans, we dig into OpenAI's massive pivot as they kill Sora entirely, cancel their Disney deal, shut down 'Citrus Mode', and go full

OpenAI's Path to AGI: Cancel Sora, Launch a Potato

OpenAI killed Sora, cancelled Spicy Chat, and went all in on enterprise and AGI.

Their next frontier model is called Spud. Yes, like the potato. 

This week on AI For Humans, we dig into OpenAI's massive pivot as they kill Sora entirely, cancel their Disney deal, shut down 'Citrus Mode', and go full defense mode against Anthropic. Their next hope? A new frontier model called Spud that Sam Altman says could accelerate the economy.

Plus, Google drops Gemini 3.1 Flash Live with better audio and video agents, Google's new Lyra3 Pro model brings AI-generated music and audio, Mistral launches an open-source voice model, Runway debuts multi-shot video, Meta reveals TRIBE v2 which can predict your thoughts from brain scans, a fully autonomous ping-pong robot called SMASH, and CapCut is ready to grab all that Sora traffic.

OPENAI CANCELLED THE FUTURE OF VIDEO. BET IT ALL ON A POTATO. 

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// Show Links //

OpenAI CEO Preps Spud: New Frontier AI Model Coming in Weeks

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-ceo-shifts-responsibilities-preps-spud-ai-model?rc=c3oojq&shared=2c9eeb0b22b15948

OpenAI Cancels Spicy Chat and Refocuses on Enterprise

https://www.ft.com/content/de9bf0af-b241-424f-8229-5870b1c0d93d?syn-25a6b1a6=1

Sora Going Away Completely and Disney Deal Cancelled

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w3e467ewqo

CapCut Ready to Take Sora's Traffic

https://x.com/capcutapp/status/2036943209956344181?s=20

Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Blog Post

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-1-flash-live/

Google Lyra3 Pro: New AI Audio and Music Model

https://x.com/Google/status/2036836307612119488?s=20

TurboQuant from Google Research

https://x.com/GoogleResearch/status/2036533564158910740

Voxtral TTS Blog Post

https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral-tts

Runway Multi-Shot Video App

https://x.com/runwayml/status/2037170118669500537?s=20

Gavin's First Try With Runway Multi-Shot

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2037191271106961881?s=20

Meta TRIBE v2 Demo

https://aidemos.atmeta.com/tribev2/

SMASH Project Page

https://mmlab.hk/Smash/

 

**Kevin Pereira:** [00:00:00] Open AI canceled Sora and they just canceled Spicy Chat.
**Gavin Purcell:** They are fully focused on enterprise reaching a GI and a new frontier model called Spud.
**Kevin Pereira:** Yes. Is this Tater based intelligence going to get their backs off the perceived wall? And why does Anthropic seem to out ship them? Every single day,
**Gavin Purcell:** plus new AI, music and audio models from Google.
**Kevin Pereira:** And Meta has a new AI that can supposedly read our minds.
**Gavin Purcell:** They don't want what's in here, Kevin. They don't want what's up here.
**Kevin Pereira:** I got a strong feeling. Many of us don't. Gavin.
**Gavin Purcell:** Well, lemme tell you something because I'm thinking about this new ping pong robot. Have you seen this? It's pretty incredible. I'm gonna take it and I'm gonna remake Marty Supreme.
I'm gonna attach Timothy
**Kevin Pereira:** Chala. Okay. Hey, goodnight Sweet Prince. This. Is AI for humans.
**Gavin Purcell:** Welcome everybody to AI for Humans, your twice a week guide to the world of ai. And today, Kevin, we are talking about open AI with their backs up against the [00:01:00] wall. They, I walked away from my microphone. They, their backs up against the wall. They are trying to kind of slim their, uh, ozempic their whole company down.
To try to approach a new frontier model and the race to a GI. Is this, let's get into what going on. Is this LP
**Kevin Pereira:** one? Is that what we're
**Gavin Purcell:** talking? Yes, yes. Actually that is a perfect idea. That should be. So there's been some big news over the last couple days about, uh, OpenAI. The biggest news really, and we covered this very briefly in our last show, is that they have canceled soa, the AI video program.
And this is a big deal. Like they didn't just like say we're gonna cut the SOA app, which some people thought at first. Did you
**Kevin Pereira:** see the videos? Of the never AI people dancing in the streets. Gavin, I
**Gavin Purcell:** did.
**Kevin Pereira:** Did you see the most Celebrating drinking ante and shooting off streamers.
**Gavin Purcell:** I will say this. I put up a video pretty much right after it happened, and I got so many yay responses that was like crazy.
But this is a big deal. Not only did they shut down the app, but they've taken out the entire AI video program. They are not gonna lay in AI video [00:02:00] anymore into Chachi pt. They have canceled their deal with Disney.
**Kevin Pereira:** They canceled the deal with Disney. A billion dollar deal that, yeah, a much hullabaloo was made over.
Yes. Which I think is a Jungle book character. They're also killing the API. Which means if you trusted open AI and built a business, any sort of application or whatever, on the backs of this video model, bye-bye, Tooles. Now, to those that celebrated in the streets, Gavin, they were saying, oh, this is it, that generative AI is starting to die.
I think that's missing the forest for the trees. Yes, usually the same trees that AI is using to power these machines. Because Yes, of course in its wake there's a million different models from other providers. It's not like they're killing this due to lack of interest. I think they're killing this due to lack of focus within
**Gavin Purcell:** Yes, that's right.
And I think that's an important thing. Uh, you know, cap cut just today opened a new app that they're going to kind of plug their, uh, by chances, AI video models. C, dance 2.0 and two, there is a probably a new VO coming from uh, Google, I would say closer to io, maybe in May. But [00:03:00] another thing happened here, Kevin, which is just a good kind of overarching story, which is a thing we've been tracking for a while.
This was known as citrus mode at one point. They are fully canceling spicy chat, so there are a lot of people out there in the world. I, I, I, I'm not gonna say I'm one of them, but I was interested in what this could do. Yeah. Who were interested in this idea that Sam Altman had mentioned they were going to allow spicy chat in Chatt PT You had to age gate it, but this feels like another kind of like slimming down of the, of the pathway to doing this stuff.
I don't think you were necessarily excited about this or I was necessarily excited about this, but this is something they had promised and now they're saying, Hmm, maybe not, we're not gonna do that right now. It feels like to me. This is part of their move of saying like, Hey, business people, hey, you know what?
You Yes. Person wearing a collar at your job and maybe a tie. We're here for you. We are not here for the guy in his, in his bedroom at two eight. I'm trying to get, I don't know, what
**Kevin Pereira:** do you, do you have a stethoscope or beakers? We want you? Yes. You have a [00:04:00] fedora and a fox mask. Oh, hold on. Uh, no disrespect, but uh, we need the money.
Actually. I think it's a smart refocusing. Look, I don't understand, like, first of all, we as humans can change our fetishes. So if you wanna like get off to token talk, any LLM could be spicy any Sure, sure. LLM. Yes. If you, if you treat JSON, like a SMR, and if you get that joke welcome, you're fine. Um, it's not, wouldn't it be hard for them to just relax the guardrails Gav, right?
Yeah. To say, Hey, are you over 18? All right, let now we're gonna let you have that chat. That to me is, is is less the issue. The cap cut thing is interesting. If people are listening to this or watching this, what does that mean for them? Do they have access to the latest seed dance? Is that it's not out now.
It's
**Gavin Purcell:** still, it's still not out in certain territories, including the us And actually we did get a note from our last show that the VPN uh, round roundabout, we thought was gonna work is not working yet. So they're doing some interesting stuff to gate it. I think ance is gonna cut a deal. The biggest thing I keep thinking about AI video [00:05:00] is.
VO and Ance are the two companies that own the data. And when I say that, what I mean is that Google owns YouTube and this video will be on YouTube every day. There was some crazy number, like a million hours of new video uploaded to YouTube. Ance is owned by Ance and by Dance owns TikTok, which is also a platform where they a lot of video getting uploaded.
So. At some point these companies were gonna kinda run away with it. I think for OpenAI, the biggest thing that's going on here is they, as we discussed last time, are starting to get lapped a little bit by anthropic, especially when it comes to recurring revenue. Like the numbers are pretty close right now.
So Kev, I think the other thing that's going on here is this. This is a nice like PR pivot internally to talk about their new model, which they're calling Spud. Now, there is not a lot of information about this. The biggest thing is it's supposedly gonna be released in two weeks, which is a very fast turnaround, right?
We talked about how Anthropic is shipping all these features. If, yeah, OpenAI delivers a significantly improved new model on top of GPT [00:06:00] 5.4, which by the way, just launched what, like three weeks ago. That is a big kind of salvo in this space. And ultimately people have talked about coding and businesses being like kind of the use case that people are featured on right now.
I know this 'cause, you know this too, like I spent a lot of time yesterday with, with Opus 4.6 and Codex both trying to squash bugs in the small thing I was working on. I spent four hours trying to find one problem and eventually I did. Cool. It would be nice to have that be 20 minutes, so if that can, if we're going to that point, that's fantastic.
**Kevin Pereira:** Yeah. Yeah. I look anecdotally, and we'll talk about this maybe in a little bit when we talk about the, the game that I vibe coded, uh, over the weekend. I think 4.5 is the most capable model that's out there right now for coding. There's also, uh, 4.5 mini Yeah, which is very quick and also very capable for the price and the amount of usage that you get, especially when you turn on more thinking.
They also had Codex Spark, which was like an experimental model running on slightly different hardware that was lightning fast. I, I think they have plenty of tricks [00:07:00] up their sleeve. I think their models are fantastic. I think their software around it, their harnesses needs to get a little bit better, and I think they know that as well, which is probably why they're refocusing.
So I would certainly not count. Open AI out at all. Yeah. Um, I, I don't mind that they're refocusing. I wonder if they release SOA as an open source something or sort of a release it as like a Here you go, community. Like,
**Gavin Purcell:** sorry, we couldn't do
**Kevin Pereira:** something with it.
**Gavin Purcell:** I would be shocked. And here's why. Because I think the tricky thing, if they were really going to release it open source, what that means is that all that stuff in there.
Probably is, is like weapons free, which when I say that stuff in there, I mean all of the faces, all of the celebrities, all of the model data, all the celebrities, all the everything. Yes. So I don't know that, that feels like, to me, a tricky thing. I do think this is like a kind of speed bump on the way to what, you know, we think about a GI, we've talked about a GI on the show before, this idea of artificial general intelligence.
Sam did say, and I, and I, there's not a, this is in this kind of a memo that went out to his team. He said quote, things are moving [00:08:00] faster than many of us. Speced, and this refers to the model, the Spud model coming out in a few weeks. So I guess that means that we're gonna keep seeing this acceleration that we've noticed in the last little bit.
Yeah, and I guess not surprising, like it just feels like weird, like you mentioned in the last show, we are in this kind of like. Churning mode right now where things are just going faster and faster. I mean, case in point, there are two new Google updates today that feel like, you know, a few, a few years ago, these would've been like major hurrahs, but like there are new, uh, there's a new audio model from Google that is really specifically important for agentic AI audio interactions, which you and I both know really well.
This is Gemini 3.1, flash Live. And Kev, what I'd be interested in, let's play this, this, uh, tweet from Josh Woodward because there's some audio in here and we'll get a sense of like how it's improved versus what we had before.
**Google Gemini:** Gemini, I'm at the gym. Give me a quick three set finisher for triceps.
A great finisher is triceps push downs with a rope attachment.
Do. Okay. So Kevin, is that a great failure?
**Gavin Purcell:** Let me, [00:09:00] I don't know this, but is that a great finisher?
**Kevin Pereira:** Yeah, that's a totally fine finisher if you wanna polish it off. I mean, you got so many people only work one section of the tricep. You really gotta get the, uh, the bronchioli later eye. You have to get in there and you wanna just keep tweaking and twerking until the duh
**Gavin Purcell:** oh, bleep that part out.
**Kevin Pereira:** I was actually more stunned at like, they put in a little audio cue so you knew that the, the thing was actually processing what it did, and it seemed like. That tiny little audio cue was barely finished before it started talking, and that's really impressive.
**Gavin Purcell:** Yeah, I mean the big thing here is they talk about it being really, uh, improved in agentic uh, tasks.
And this, again, it's that same sort of thing like, you know, you and I have both been using coding agents. Well, this is the idea of like, could you put a voice so that it could be able to kind of figure out what you want quickly and then give you the answer you're looking for. This is one of the problems sometimes with voice is that like, you know, it doesn't have the time to go through the thinking process because in the thinking process it's a delay and if you're doing voice, what you really want is a direct answer.
I think [00:10:00] that speed to answer is gonna be a big part of the next like year of, of consumer ai, particularly because I'm okay with waiting for a while for coding answers, but I'm not that okay to wait for a tricep answer when I'm in the gym.
**Kevin Pereira:** General knowledge answers, yeah. Yeah, exactly. Plus, you gotta do your set and clear the machine.
No one likes a loiter. All right. I get my ring light, I get my tripod. I set it down. I do my one rep.
**Gavin Purcell:** You're that guy.
**Kevin Pereira:** And I, yeah. And then I break it all down. I take my road mic off. I lose. I take my goat pro vest off. Oh, and I move away. I move away. I'm a fit Flur. I know how this works. Also, along those lines, did you see the flashlight stuff?
The, the, the, no,
**Gavin Purcell:** I haven't seen this yet.
**Kevin Pereira:** So, so they, they have Google, uh, Gemini 3.1 flashlight, LITE, uh, and it's flash, not flash. And they built the flashlight browser to show it off. And they have the video Gavin will put on the screen. Where it is. This isn't a pre-built website. They're just showing the speed with which this model can render images and, and text and format it like into a, a [00:11:00] website looking crazy presentation.
Someone's clicking around and you would just think that they're on like American broadband. It loads
**Gavin Purcell:** right.
**Kevin Pereira:** You know, it's like it's a little slow, but it gets there and. Everything that's on the screen if you're getting the video version is, is being rendered in real time. And literally on Tuesday we were talking about a future where software is rendered almost like real time video.
This is kind of that. This is, this is the beginning of that. Imagine an interface, Gavin, where you're cutting a video and you go like, oh, this isn't what I wanna see. Give me a panel that shows me the special effects options that will add sparklers to my blah, blah, blah. And, okay, let me just render that for you.
Here you go.
**Gavin Purcell:** And, and also, just as a side note, Kev, uh, Google, just DeepMind just released this piece of research called Turbo Quant, which actually speeds up access to memory in a much bigger way, which I think is gonna actually make these AI tools way more.
**Kevin Pereira:** Yeah, so the, the vector memories, they're stored in like 3D space and usually to retrieve them.
Imagine someone giving you directions and saying, walk three blocks this way, and then turn, you know, make [00:12:00] a right at the, uh, Albertsons and walk five more blocks, right? Then you're good. Now you're at the dispensary. Why? Why would that be? Directions I need, follow me. Instead of that, Gavin, they'll just tell you, walk 35 degrees.
Like position yourself there and just walk for three blocks. Ooh. And that's it. And it's like, it's like polar coordinates. So it kind of compresses all of this data to get to the vector memory. Puts it into these like polar coordinates. But the, the point is like in fact, memory stocks kind of took a slight dip.
Uh, on the heels of this, 'cause people are like, oh, we're gonna need less memory. Nope. We all know a very, very popular paradox, which means that the, the demand for this stuff is just going to increase. Increase. Yes. And the expectations are going to increase as well. But this is cool. Like we know that we need a few more.
Technological breakthroughs to get to a GI and then maybe beyond that, this might very well be one of them.
**Gavin Purcell:** Yeah. And it's, by the way, it's not the only Google announcement this week. They also announced Lyra three Pro. So this is their AI music model. You can now generate full songs, which is kind of interesting.
**Kevin Pereira:** Well, lemme give you a soundtrack while you announce this, [00:13:00] Gavin.
**Gavin Purcell:** That's right. It's time for Lyra three Pro. You know, and I know the way that this company works. Is they will drop things that are interesting. Anyway, so this is one of the things people have been doing with this is exactly this. Basically they're using it to create lyrics.
Free syn, wave bangers, background music. Yes. I mean, and listen, we said last time we tried LY three, it's fine. It's not like the most exciting, uh, AI music model. We felt like Suno was kind of advanced, but. We do appreciate the fact that Google continues to build across all of these platforms. I think one thing that's interesting about Google is they have all this other money because they make money from ads on Google search, right?
So they are able to kind of dump a bunch of money into these side projects that a company like OpenAI just don't think can right now.
**Kevin Pereira:** It's one of the first audio models where I don't notice that, that like that AI shimmer that's on everything. Yes. Like that was the first thing that grabbed me when I heard it.
So there's clearly like room to improve and because I give them $20 a month for my, uh, Google Voice account, like yes. They're [00:14:00] making money hand over fist everywhere.
**Gavin Purcell:** Yeah, exactly. And it, by the way, like Google, I'm very excited to see what comes outta Google io because that's happening in May. By the way, Kevin, we are invited and uh, I have signed us up and I know you may not be in town, but we can go to it this year.
So we got invited to, we got invited. We got invited. Yeah. So we are able to show up at it and I will happen to be in the San Francisco Bay area.
**Kevin Pereira:** Tell em I got a thing. I wanna play two. Just let 'em know.
**Gavin Purcell:** Oh, Kevin's got a thing. Okay. Too cool. Too cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh, one other cool audio note, uh, mixed roll.
If you remember, mixed roll is the French. Uh, AI company that has been working on open source. This is an open source video model, Kev, and it's very performative. You wanna play just a little taste of the open source mixed role, uh, model to see what we're getting here.
**Voxtral:** The one the world knows me by and now it can travel further, not away from me, but more fully Asme
**Gavin Purcell:** sounds very French.
It sounds very French. This is a existential French. Anyway, it is open source. You can go use it. It is [00:15:00] called, uh, Vox, uh, Vox, tts, and it's worth going to check out. Obviously, all open source models you can play with, download and you can screw around with on your own. You know, anytime voice gets better, we love talking about it.
I do think voice is kind of taking a backseat right now to coding and even videos. Taking a backseat to coding. Still many cool things happening at the same time.
**Kevin Pereira:** Is he, is he digging on the couch?
**Gavin Purcell:** Who? Ollie?
**Kevin Pereira:** Yeah.
**Gavin Purcell:** Ollie, what are you doing? What's going on? They, they did talk about, they did? Yeah. Don't dig Ollie.
This is not our place.
**Kevin Pereira:** Ollie, you dig? It's okay. Especially 'cause it's not your place. You go for it buddy. You get
**Gavin Purcell:** through those cushions. That's my dog. That's my dog. Ollie sweetie. Kev, we should run out quickly to uh, uh, Multi-Shot App, our friends at
**Kevin Pereira:** Runway.
**Gavin Purcell:** Yes. Our friends at Runway have released a new app called Multi-Shot Video.
This is an idea that's basically the, I'm sure this is kind of a video harness, which is interesting. They're basically taking your screen grab or still or whatever, and you can put a very simple, [00:16:00] um, prompt in for it and you can get a video out. So if you wanna look at this, I took, uh, this week's thumbnail with you and I, and a, and a lobster being boiled in a pot.
And I just said, here, make something interesting where the lobster gets away. So play this.
**Kevin Pereira:** Pretty good. You
**Voxtral:** grab it.
**Kevin Pereira:** And I just needed a, like a, a mildly, uh, mildly interested French narrator to really grab me. We should have put some vox drill over it.
**Gavin Purcell:** It's funny when you say that 'cause when you look, there's one shot where we're both turned to the side and we have much larger noses than we actually do. Yes. So maybe they did make us French already.
But again, if you didn't see, if you're just listening to this, that is. You know, Kevin and I, from the thumbnail, we kind of turn, we see the lobster jumping outta the pot. The lobster jumps out, falls on the ground. It's all very pretty well done. And I didn't prompt any of the scenes. So this goes back to that idea of like, [00:17:00] everybody in the world of AI video is kind of working towards this idea of like, how can we simplify putting together shots, right?
Because c Dance 2.0 is very good at this. Like you can add shots in Yeah. For the, for the normal person, if they don't wanna break it down by shots, this might be a really cool thing.
**Kevin Pereira:** That was one of the big, like out of the box magical things about SOA when it first launched. Yes. Was that you could give it the tiniest prompt and you knew it was doing a script breakdown behind the scenes to do all the shots.
Breaking news, Gavin,
**Google Gemini:** oh no,
**Gavin Purcell:** what do
**Kevin Pereira:** we got? Real time translations just became even easier in the Google Translate app now with headphones on iOS, because it was already out on Android, on iOS real time. Ooh, language translation. So all the people that bought the new AirPods to try to get into that
**Gavin Purcell:** didn't need them.
You didn't
**Kevin Pereira:** realtime translation, apparently you didn't need it. Just wait on Google. So, wow. Wow.
**Gavin Purcell:** Cool.
**Kevin Pereira:** That's actually pretty interesting.
**Gavin Purcell:** So that's them doing their, they're taking their audio model and they're expanding it out into consumer use cases. That is actually something I very much would use. And you'll use very soon.
Probably because a hundred percent you gonna be in a different country. Yeah. That's [00:18:00] amazing. On, um, there's another huge story this week that kind of didn't get enough coverage. Right now it is a science story and maybe didn't get enough coverage because meta is going through it right now. If you didn't follow this meta and, uh, YouTube have both lost a pretty big lawsuit around like social media.
But meta AI has created a new thing called Tribe V two, and what this is is a basically a way to simulate what humans perceive in their brain. And they can essentially read, not only read thoughts, but it can also predict thoughts about what you're seeing. This is an AI model that actually. Sees brain firings, like meaning that like you'll see like if you look at something, it'll show you what part of the brain lights up right when you look at a thing and it's predicting this stuff.
So this is a combination of what's known as FMRI technology, which is like kind of brain scanning technology and AI to be predictive. And Kevin, this, a lot of people are saying that this is the step towards. Brain uploads, which, you know, we've talked about science fiction ideas before, but the idea that you could upload a [00:19:00] brain, have it simulate Sure.
What the sort of scenario is as a pretty big deal now, this is just the beginning stages of this.
**Kevin Pereira:** It's so kind of you to think they're trying to do anything other than predict what will click on or what
**Gavin Purcell:** will make us, it's so excited to
**Kevin Pereira:** watch on Instagram reels. We know that if we show him this cucumber wearing Oakley's graphic, a certain point of his portion of his brain is gonna light up and he's gonna be more motivated to buy.
**Gavin Purcell:** That. That is the thing that worries me some ways about meta. It's one of the funny things about meta at large, like we've talked about how Meta is kind of in the background right now on ai. They spent all this money on all these AI researchers. They did bring in Mt book to try to kind of like clearly own the AI agent space, but Meta has a way of making everything they do about ads.
Yeah. Right? Yeah. And about their business model, which again, I don't necessarily think from a business perspective that's bad, but maybe from a humanity standpoint, not so good.
**Kevin Pereira:** Well this in this paper, the interesting thing was this was done about five years ago, but they didn't release it because they thought the tribe model was broken.
They were showing all the brain scans and there was nothing lighting up, and [00:20:00] they realized they were just testing on users in horizon worlds.
**Gavin Purcell:** Oh damn. That was a long walk to get there, but we got there. Finally, RIP, horizon Worlds RIP, horizon Worlds RIP. Kevin's face up close to there. And finally, Kevin, we have some really awesome, we have an awesome robot story here.
This is called smash, the world's first high dynamic humanoid robot for outdoor 10 table tennis, fully autonomous with onboard perception. If you are just listening to the show, you should definitely come and watch this video because it is fascinating. Basically what you're seeing here is a robot ping pong player and ping pong.
Yeah. As many people know from Marty Supreme is like a pretty difficult thing for humans to do, especially 'cause you're tracking a small ball and it's moving fast with weird physics. What are you laughing about, Marty?
**Kevin Pereira:** You guys know ping pong from Marty Supreme. You've never probably seen or heard of it before
**Gavin Purcell:** in the, in the most recent world.
You understand? I know what pro ping pong is. Yes, yes, of course. But anyway, this is a very cool project. It's one of another sort of sign that robotics is moving along very [00:21:00] fast, and I do think it's an important thing for people to realize. There was also a video recently I've, speaking of Firo three, I dunno if you saw this, but where it was walking with Melania in the uh, yeah, in the, I saw that White House, which was like, I saw that, this goofy looking video.
When you compare that walk to the ping pong robot, you just get a sense of how vast the difference is in terms of what people are pulling off right now. Is
**Kevin Pereira:** there was a couple weeks ago. I don't, maybe we showed it. I don't know. We make so many of these now. I don't know. The, the, the tennis playing unit tree, like it was fully stumbled around tennis court show and swinging the racket.
Like yeah. That, that similarly. Impressive as hell. So
**Gavin Purcell:** do you think there's gonna be a unitary tennis pro at the club that like tries to like creep up on the old, uh, country club ladies like, he's like, Hey ladies, look at this. I can do a back. I can do it back. Let me
**Kevin Pereira:** get behind you and show you the better grip.
Please, please stop. No grip. Stop,
**Gavin Purcell:** stop, stop you to tree, stop you to tree
**Kevin Pereira:** content, content, tennis, playing robots. Great. But the real humans, Gavin, the real [00:22:00] humans out there, they're too busy, they're too busy clicking like and subscribe and smashing the bell and leaving a comment to juice our algo down below.
So please do that. If you listen on any podcast apps, give us a five star review. Uh, leave a comment there that helps us grow. It's the only way we get any attention. Share us on social. Promote us on LinkedIn. Hashtag open to work. Also discord, uh, disco discord. We're gonna be beta testing the tile matching Battle Royale game, which is almost, almost stable.
And dare I say, almost fun. I don't think I'll get it there. I don't think I'll get it there. It's but maybe
**Gavin Purcell:** stable. It's fun. It's fun. It is definitely fun. We are very excited to play more of Kevin's game. Yes, please come visit us in our Discord link is below and we will see you all next week.
**Kevin Pereira:** Bye bye.
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