AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends

AI news this week: MiniMax H3 Max on Fal is generating video faster than you can watch it, powering never-ending real-time channels (Fal Live, Levels.io's Infinite Slop, Reactor) and we're already breaking it.. On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell go hands-on with what real-time video actually makes possible. Gavin took an open-source interactive game demo, some Fal credits, and a POV dating sim and turned it into something very weird, and we'll show you what worked, what broke, and what it cost. Plus Runway's new Solaris model generates entire interfaces on the fly, and someone built a chatbot running at 14,000 tokens a second. Also: Sam Altman is out preaching about OpenAI's new Astra model, which may drop this week, and the leaks are leakin'. Plus: Gavin handed his personal data to three different AI agents, including hot new startup Instinct, which found him a weird concert and a list of podcast bookings (and we may have a few invite codes to give away). Codex mass-edits a Google Calendar and Kevin finally plays the custom-trained MiniMax Music LoRA you asked for (all three of you). And an AI See What You Did There with The Office in Claudish, famous people falling on each other, and Jenny Krakovsky's feature film finished in 50 days. THE SLOP-AGGEDON IS UPON US. TURN YOUR AIRPODS UP TO 11. // Show Links // MiniMax H3 MAX Free Gen Page https://fal.ai/tools/minimax-h3-max Gavin's MiniMax H3 Max real-time test (it's very fast) https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2093098167906758734?s=20 Gavin's follow-up: the toms https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2093746610849403017?s=20 Fal Live, two never-ending channels https://fal.live/chaos Levels.io's Infinite Slop http://levels.io/infinite-slop Glitch platform https://x.com/thefirst_ad/status/2094442316086039004?s=20 Reactor https://live.reactor.inc/ H3 Max now supports video references https://x.com/fal/status/2094527664040124764?s=20 Interactive games with H3 Max (the GitHub Gavin started from) https://x.com/BlendiByl/status/2094337649859523015 Gorgeous website mockup made with H3 (prompt included) https://x.com/ShamsAmin56/status/2093710509858328605?s=20 Runway Solaris, a model for generated interfaces https://runway.com/news/research/introducing-solaris OpenAI Astra samples (supposedly) https://x.com/chetaslua/status/2094472807908569356?s=20 https://x.com/lyraxana/status/2094600793789694346?s=20 https://x.com/GaricaRosen6779/status/2094727306766111126?s=20 https://x.com/pankajkumar_dev/status/2094399865971450286?s=20 Astra makes Terraria https://x.com/alexgetmancom/status/2094762443310272735?s=20 Omarchy AI Operating System https://omarchy.org/ Instinct: The AI Agent Messaging System https://app.instinct.co/login PRE-ORDER KIM PURCELL'S BOOK FOR YOU OR YOUR LOVED ONES https://kimpurcell.com/books/write-a-novel-in-100-days The concert Instinct found for Gavin https://tabularasa.itm.studio/m/tabula-rasa-presents-ramonpang The Office but everyone speaks Claudish https://x.com/venturetwins/status/2094536157686387114?s=20 Famous people punch each other and fall down https://x.com/sadlemonjuice/status/2094017087484092810?s=20 Jenny Krakovsky finished her feature film in 50 days https://x.com/jennykrakovsky/status/2094394793451200630?s=20 // Join the AI For Humans community // Join the AI For Humans Discord https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Support AI For Humans on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow Subscribe to the AI For Humans newsletter https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow AI For Humans on X: @AIForHumansShow https://x.com/AIForHumansShow Follow AI For Humans on TikTok: @aiforhumansshow https://www.tiktok.com/@aiforhumansshow Speaking and booking https://www.aiforhumans.show/

AI news this week: We're changing AI For Humans. Not ending it, despite what the first two minutes of this video would have you believe. Kevin wanted a memorial service. On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell take a beat to talk about what three years of covering AI every single week has actually been like, why the whole thing got so weird, and what we want this show to be from here. Short version: less breaking news, more of us actually using this stuff and showing you what's worth your time. We are not going to be the show that covers lab drama or tells you the world is ending. Plenty of people have that handled. Also: we're going back to weekly, with the freedom to pop up a second time when something big happens or when we want to try a dumb experiment. And Will.i.am has invented a new file format, which is a sentence we did not expect to type in 2026. Plus: RobotWatch is stacked. Two thousand humanoid robots descend on Beijing for the World Humanoid Robot Games, a Unitree "Superman" robot jumps considerably too far, a one year running comparison shows how fast this is all moving, and Claude gets put in charge of a robot controlled car. Then AI See What You Did There (And How They Did It) with Techhalla's MiniMax H3 paper artcraft prompt, a Cobra Commander rickroll, and an AI playing Age of Empires 2. And before we go, we check in with our original co-host Gash to see if he's even possible anymore. THREE YEARS IN AND THE ROBOTS STILL RUN INTO WALLS. SO DO WE. // Show Links // Gavin's tweet about burning out on covering this stuff https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2087927136778907885?s=20 The robot that runs incredibly fast and then directly into a wall https://x.com/ErenChenAI/status/2089411799003111634?s=20 Will.i.am's new file format https://x.com/KeziahMallam/status/2089375815498695102?s=20 Robot army preparing for the World Humanoid Robot Games https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2089761213957947482?s=20 Beijing to host games featuring more than 2,000 humanoid robots (Aug 22 to 26) https://caliber.az/en/post/beijing-to-host-games-featuring-more-than-2-000-humanoid-robots Unitree "Superman" robot jumping TOO far https://youtu.be/O7OkiZfIlS4?si=0beq9oHc_0KIuVbq One year robot running comparison https://x.com/XH_Lee23/status/2090029122055786896?s=20 Claude robot controlled car https://x.com/Hesamation/status/2090088199557157075?s=20 Techhalla's MiniMax H3 paper artcraft video prompt https://x.com/techhalla/status/2089267788896412146?s=20 Cobra Commander MiniMax H3 rickroll https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1vs95w7/gi_joe_commander_roll_minimax_h3/ AI plays Age of Empires 2 https://youtu.be/ZBdAe3ZwKds?si=PsFJIFMS2j4lYXXo // Join the AI For Humans community // Join the AI For Humans Discord https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Support AI For Humans on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow Subscribe to the AI For Humans newsletter https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow AI For Humans on X: @AIForHumansShow https://x.com/AIForHumansShow Follow AI For Humans on TikTok: @aiforhumansshow https://www.tiktok.com/@aiforhumansshow Speaking and booking https://www.aiforhumans.show/

AI news this week: the AI video renaissance is HERE. Seedance 2.5 is out for everyone, Minimax H3 (Hailuo) is basically an uncensored Sora 2 you can run on local hardware, Wan 3.0 turns your documents into video, and Flux 3 is the only non-Chinese model anywhere near the frontier. \Kevin's on vacation, so on today's AI For Humans, Gavin Purcell is joined by AI video expert Tim Simmons from the excellent YouTube channel Theoretically Media. Together they break down which of the new models is actually best, the basics of how to use them, exactly how good local AI video has gotten, and what it means that nearly all of these models are Chinese. Also: Walter White meets Joey, AI Kramer, Family Guy prompts, The Office reimagined, and a museum for the ancient AI videos of two years ago. Plus: Tim's Higgsfield terms-of-service deep dive, OpenAI reportedly targeting an "ASTRA" aka GPT-6 release for NEXT WEEK, Jeff Dean leaves Google after 27 years as Demis Hassabis steps up, and an AI See What You Did There: AI Filmmakers Edition. WE HAVE SORA AT HOME NOW. HOLLYWOOD, YOU GOOD? // Show Links // Subscribe to Tim's channel, Theoretically Media https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia Seedance 2.5 is here for everyone https://x.com/capcutapp/status/2085355533943357650?s=20 Tim's short film "Death Walks Into A Bar" https://youtu.be/4wFBA9-KyzY?si=2E1cdKiiGYe1d7pu Minimax H3 (Hailuo): basically an uncensored open source local Sora 2 https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-h3 AI Warper's Family Guy "AI Prompt" https://x.com/AIWarper/status/2084445445372477530?s=20 Walter White meets Joey https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1vfu2dt/oh_this_is_funh3/ Here's Kramer (Seinfeld prompt) https://x.com/techprofits/status/2085118937738391830?s=20 AI Film History museum by Rich Klien https://aifilmhistory.org/ The Office example https://x.com/VelvetRender87/status/2084390557334335837?s=20 Wan 3.0: turns docs, sheets, decks and webpages into video https://x.com/Alibaba_Wan/status/2085339761284104529?s=20 https://x.com/Alibaba_Wan/status/2085339982714257453?s=20 Flux 3 from Black Forest Labs https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-3 Tim's Higgsfield TOS video https://youtu.be/7vGp40qEV4s?si=To-ih5eLpqWWnKPz OpenAI targeting "ASTRA" aka GPT-6 release for next week https://x.com/synthwavedd/status/2085365276640702915?s=20 Jeff Dean leaves Google after 27 years & Demis steps up https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/05/google-chief-scientist-jeff-dean-leaving-company-after-27-years.html Kavan The Kid's latest https://youtu.be/tU5UUc1d0_A?si=j3KNGgJNDX6-L8yG Dave Clark's found footage Seedance 2.5 short https://x.com/Diesol/status/2084547129188712589?s=20 Demon Flying Fox's Odyssey https://youtu.be/ky-2PL6G3aI?si=C73wRZG-Bfd97vSa // Join the AI For Humans community // Join the AI For Humans Discord https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Support AI For Humans on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow Subscribe to the AI For Humans newsletter https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow AI For Humans on X: @AIForHumansShow https://x.com/AIForHumansShow Follow AI For Humans on TikTok: @aiforhumansshow https://www.tiktok.com/@aiforhumansshow Speaking and booking https://www.aiforhumans.show/

AI NEWS: Gemini 3.6 Flash is here: More efficient, less expensive but Gemini 3.5 Pro is still testing with partners & very much not here. Is Google Gemini slowly getting cooked? Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell break down Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite and the missing Pro model. Plus Sam Altman's reported Washington briefing on OpenAI's next wave of AI models, Sunday Robotics' Memo folding laundry with a company-reported 99.1% success rate, and District 9 director Neill Blomkamp's 13-minute AI film NIGHTBORNE. Also: Fable 5's proposed counterexample to the 87-year-old Jacobian Conjecture, Codex and ChatGPT computer use, Notch warming to vibe coding, a whale-shaped Moby-Dick crossword, Gaussian splats, Bambi the Destroyer and Wizard Brains in the return of AI SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE!. THE MODELS ARE GETTING WEIRDER. THE LAUNDRY IS FINALLY GETTING FOLDED. // Show Links // Official Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber announcement https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-6-flash-3-5-flash-lite-3-5-flash-cyber/ Gemini 3.6 Flash on Frontend Arena https://x.com/arena/status/2079594271045455947 Logan Kilpatrick on Gemini 4 training and Gemini 3.5 Pro https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2079594867161022817?s=20 Report of a new Google AI chip for Gemini https://x.com/MTSlive/status/2079198478849413390?s=20 Fable 5 and the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample https://x.com/__alpoge__/status/2079028340955197566?s=20 Context on the Jacobian Conjecture result https://x.com/jdlichtman/status/2079066717762863249?s=20 Andrew Curran on Altman's planned Washington briefing https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/2079604797838397495?s=20 Bloomberg: Altman to brief U.S. officials on OpenAI's next wave of models https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-21/openai-s-altman-to-brief-us-officials-on-next-wave-of-ai-models Sunday Robotics' ACT-2 laundry demonstration https://youtu.be/d7I1wj0Gkik?si=8E44Kmpqa7Gazfuh Three hours of Memo folding laundry https://youtu.be/a2HZyURUE_o?si=dT_WiDVcVEHGj9qn Sunday Robotics' technical ACT-2 post https://www.sunday.ai/blog/act-2-preview Neill Blomkamp's AI film NIGHTBORNE https://youtu.be/8Wbtt2JxP7g?si=Q8WMwCB_cIXvxxJt Notch comes around on vibe coding https://x.com/notch/status/2079507573523300534?s=20 Riley Goodside's Fable 5 Moby-Dick whale crossword https://x.com/goodside/status/2078649724710658309?s=20 Gaussian splat of San Francisco's Grace Cathedral https://vincentwoo.com/3d/grace_cathedral/ Bambi the Destroyer, Episode 5 https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1uto3js/bambi_the_destroyer_episode_5/ Wizard Brains game https://x.com/wizardbrainz/status/2078860897259548946?s=20 // Community Links // Join the AI For Humans Discord https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Support AI For Humans on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow Subscribe to the AI For Humans newsletter https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow AI For Humans on X: @AIForHumansShow https://x.com/AIForHumansShow Follow AI For Humans on TikTok: @aiforhumansshow https://www.tiktok.com/@aiforhumansshow Speaking and booking https://www.aiforhumans.show/