Have you heard these exciting AI news? - January 09, 2026 AI Updates Weekly

Have you heard these exciting AI news? - January 09, 2026 AI Updates Weekly Presented by Lev Selector Slides on GDrive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1dmj00iilSP-JYmriMUUaHCKz5X54e3UX?ths=true Slides on GitHub - https://github.com/lselector/seminar (click on pptx file, then on "raw" or download button on the right) ------------------------------------------------------- Please write in comments your opinion and experience using conductor/rules files and skills files for software projects ------------------------------------------------------- Need AI Consulting ? - Enterprise AI Solutions - https://EAIS.ai - Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/levselector - GitHub - https://github.com/lselector ------------------------------------------------------- Our books: "Artificial Intelligence In Business: Strategies That Work" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FKZ3364G/ "AI Product Manager: Building Tomorrow" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FMS9NFK9/ "How to Learn with AI?: A Practical Guide for Students, Professionals, and Self-Learners" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FWLNVQMJ/ "Professional + AI: Future-Proofing Your Career" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GBXLCTZQ --------- Contents of today's video: 00:00 Introduction 00:23 Crowd-sourced "LM Arena" Leaderboard 01:15 Best 14-40B Params Open LLMs 01:49 New Moore's Law - 2x every 4 months 02:34 Yann LeCun AMI Startup 03:59 Gemini AI in Gmail 04:36 Shameless plug for my channel 05:10 ChatGPT Health 05:35 CES 2026 Consumer Electronics Show 07:01 Nvidia Alpamayo & Cosmos 07:27 Nvidia Rubin Supercomputer Platform 07:54 Humanoid Robots Security Problems 08:31 Google ADK - Agent Development Kit 09:52 MIT RLM - Recursive Language Model 10:56 Tencent HY-Motion 1.0 11:08 Combining Tools and Models 11:49 DeepSeek MHC 13:33 AI Changes Structure of Startups 14:25 Lightricks LTX-2 Open-Source Video Model 15:07 Memory Shortage Causes GPU Price Increase 15:22 Anthropic raised $10 Bln at $350 Bln Valuation 15:35 Claude Code 2.1.0 Released January 7 16:16 Boris Cherny Work Setup 17:25 Google's Gemini CLI - Agent Skills 17:39 Oh My Open Code Framework 18:00 Rocket.new - text to app Framework 18:21 Julia McCoy - AI Business Model 20:47 Karpathy's LLM Council 21:47 Create Content for for AI chat citations 23:26 Correlation versus causality 25:30 Jobs, Layoffs, demand for AI Engineers ---- Takeaways: 1. AI development is accelerating exponentially with new Moore's Law showing doubling every 4 months instead of traditional 2 years 2. The AI industry structure is shifting from traditional hierarchical organizations to flatter, smaller teams optimized for speed over coordination, enabling faster innovation and decision-making 3. Open source AI models are becoming increasingly powerful and accessible, with smaller models now capable of running on laptops while delivering high-quality performance comparable to larger systems ---- Quotes: "Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make." "Companies structured for speed will outpace those using outdated models." "Causality and logical reasoning are the foundation of human intelligence and they remain the missing foundations of today's AI." ---- Summary: In this AI weekly update, I cover the latest developments in artificial intelligence including new open source models, hardware advances from Nvidia, and emerging trends in AI applications. Key highlights include Yann LeCun's new startup focusing on world models, major announcements from CES 2026, and breakthrough architectures like DeepSeek's improved transformer connections. The discussion covers practical tools like Gemini in Gmail, ChatGPT Health, and various coding frameworks, while also exploring philosophical questions about correlation versus causality in AI systems. ---- Keywords: artificial intelligence, machine learning, open source models, Nvidia, transformers, LLM, neural networks, startup, automation, robotics, deep learning, GPU, hardware, software development, AI agents, natural language processing, computer vision, data science, technology trends, innovation