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

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The episode discusses OpenAI's strategic pivot towards enterprise and AGI, including the cancellation of several projects and the introduction of a new model called Spud.

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. #ai #ainews #openai Come to our Discord: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI For Humans Newsletter: https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow us for more on X @AIForHumansShow Join our TikTok @aiforhumansshow To book us for speaking, please visit our website…

People in this episode

Hosts: Kevin Pereira, Gavin Purcell

Topics covered

• OpenAI
• AGI
• technology news
• AI models
• enterprise AI
• Google updates

Keywords

• OpenAI
• AGI
• Spud
• technology news
• AI models
• Google
• Mistral
• Meta
• CapCut

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: OpenAI, Google, Mistral, Meta

Products: Sora, Spicy Chat, Spud, Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, Lyra3 Pro, Runway, TRIBE v2, SMASH, CapCut

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