Have you heard these exciting AI news? - September 19, 2025 AI Updates Weekly

Have you heard these exciting AI news? - September 19, 2025 AI Updates Weekly Presented by Lev Selector Slides - https://github.com/lselector/seminar/tree/master/2025 (click on pptx file, then on "raw" or download button on the right) ------------------------------------------------------- Please write in comments if you have experience comparing Claude against GPT-5 or GPT-5 Codex for coding ? ------------------------------------------------------- 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/ --------- Contents of today's video: 00:00 Humanity has historically automated bodily functions (digging, running, seeing), but AI now automates thought and creativity, thus leaving only self-awareness as a uniquely human trait 00:39 OpenAI's GPT-5 won at ICPC World Finals 01:38 Crowd-sourced "LM Arena" Leaderboard 02:11 Hallucinations 03:50 OpenLovable - free alternative to Lovable 04:29 Foundation Models Becoming a Commodity 06:26 Google Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) 07:34 Albania - AI minister of public procurement 08:01 Perplexity AI raised $200M at $20B Valuation 08:39 Inception Point AI - 3K podcasts per week 09:08 Gauss AI system from Math Inc. 09:50 OpenAI and Microsoft - Memorandum 10:17 Meta MobileLLM-R1 - pocket reasoning 10:55 Amazon Kiro IDE 12:16 Qwen3‑Next‑80B‑A3B 13:28 Mixture of Experts (MoE) 15:02 YouTube multi-language audio feature 15:31 Companies achieving more with less capital 15:54 AI Investment - gaming & entertainment 16:00 Is there an AI day? 16:35 NVIDIA Rubin CPX 16:58 Alibaba Qwen 3 Max 17:05 Tencent Hunyuan Image 2.1 17:19 Salesforce SFR Deep Research 17:30 ASML-Mistral Investment 17:59 Meta Connect 18:41 CodeRabbit CLI - Code Review 19:09 OpenAI GPT-5 Codex - AI coding assistant model 20:23 ChatGPT connectors update 20:39 Alibaba's Tongyi DeepResearch - 30B AI Agent 21:15 GLM-4.5 AI coding model from Z.ai 22:00 Gemma 3 270M on Pixel 9 Pro 22:18 Google VaultGemma: diff-private LLM 24:04 Agent TARS - browser/desktop automation 25:54 GitHub Speckit 27:49 LEANN Vector DB takes 30x less space 28:57 Customer Service AI Agent 30:53 Streamlit-Based RAG Debugging 31:57 OOP Is Dead - Long Live ECS 33:42 Why Entrepreneurship is Safer Than Employment 35:17 Jobs, Layoffs, demand for AI Engineers --- ### **Takeaways:** 1. **AI is moving beyond physical automation into cognitive and creative realms** — leaving self-awareness as possibly the only uniquely human capability. 2. **Foundation models are now commoditized**, and the real innovation is happening in how companies build tools, frameworks, and applications on top of them — with faster, cheaper, more specialized LLMs emerging rapidly. 3. **The AI-driven economy is reshaping industries**, from coding and customer support to search engines and even government, and there's an accelerating demand for AI engineers as companies pour billions into AI infrastructure. --- ### **Quotes:** “AI now automates thought and creativity, thus leaving only self-awareness as a uniquely human trait.” “Foundation models are really becoming a commodity... you’re creating these frameworks, this scaffolding around the models.” “The route of college followed by employment is actually more risky than getting into a startup.” --- ### **Summary:** Many topics - from OpenAI’s victory at a major coding competition to new AI governance roles like Albania’s virtual AI minister. The rise of open-source models and commoditization of foundation models, new protocols like Google’s AP2 for agent payments, and innovations like the Meta MobileLLM and Amazon’s Kirro IDE. AI is enabling companies to do more with less and is reshaping entrepreneurship, education, and employment. IThere is a growing demand for AI engineers and the massive capital inflow into AI R\&D. --- ### **Keywords:** OpenAI GPT-5, Foundation Models, Hallucinations, Lovable, OpenLovable, LM Arena, AP2 (Agent Payment Protocol), Albania AI Minister, Perplexity AI, Inception Point AI, Gauss AI, Meta MobileLLM-R1, Amazon Kirro IDE, Qwen3‑Next‑80B‑A3B, Mixture of Experts, YouTube AI Dubbing, AI Gaming, NVIDIA Rubin, Salesforce AI Agents, Mistral, Meta Connect, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Speckit, Agent TARS, Gemma 3, VaultGemma, GLM-4.5, LEANN Vector DB, Streamlit RAG Debugging, OOP, ECS, Peter Diamandis, Entrepreneurship, AI Engineers, Claude Opus, Gemini 2.5, Differential Privacy, AI Economy