Have you heard these exciting AI news? - September 26, 2025 AI Updates Weekly

Have you heard these exciting AI news? - September 26, 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: - Do you think AI will take over your job soon? - What is your plan for a career change or professional pivot?" ------------------------------------------------------- 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 Introduction 00:22 Crowd-sourced "LM Arena" Leaderboard 00:38 Grok 4 Fast - cost-efficient reasoning model 01:13 Exponential growth 01:37 AI is growing 2-3 times faster than Moore's Law 02:54 Outsourcing Jobs to AI 05:02 Compute Owners vs Underclass 06:12 AI monthly payment plans 07:16 Google AI: Chrome, AI Search, Youtube languages 08:18 Groq $750 million at $6.9B valuation 08:37 Tencent's Hunyuan3D 3.0 09:01 Convex Chef platform open-source vibe coding 09:19 OpenAI revenue sharing with Microsoft decreasing 09:44 Alibaba - FP8 builds of Qwen3 models 10:06 Fei-Fei Li's World Labs demo 10:17 90% of programmers use AI 10:35 Major LLMs can pass CFA Exam 11:00 Google Stitch text-to-design 11:24 Crush CLI open-source AI coding agent for terminal 11:36 Lumi.new - AI no-code app builder 11:46 Kling 2.5 Turbo - video generation model 12:05 Skywork - research AI creates professional reports 12:33 Supernova: New Free AI Coder 12:53 AWS Strands - agent orchestration framework 13:08 Mistral Magistral v. 1.2 Reasoning Models 13:36 Grok 4 Fast - cost-efficient reasoning model (revisited) 13:59 LLM-Deflate: Extracting Into Datasets 15:09 Tencent's Parallel R1 (developed in Seattle) 15:38 Ollama Web Search 16:04 Spiking Brain Models 18:22 AI Coding - Create & Update Rules 18:33 GitHub Spec Kit framework + Claude Code 19:46 AI Coding - Create & Update Rules (revisited) 20:34 OP Code - desktop GUI for ClaudeCode workflows 20:56 Claude Code Opus 4.1 is fixed 21:09 Qwen3 Coder Plus 21:33 DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus 22:00 Preventing Fake Alignment (Apollo Research) 23:11 DeepSeek-R1 Develops Advanced Reasoning 24:18 LEANN Vector DB takes 30x less space 27:36 Google Gemini TV 28:29 AI sector - a speculative “bubble” ? 29:23 AI for Creative Media 30:11 Python 3.14 (October 7th) 31:18 Jobs, Layoffs, demand for AI Engineers ## Key Takeaways 1. *AI's Exponential Growth and Societal Impact:* AI's growth is estimated to be *two to three times faster than Moore's Law*, leading to rapid job displacement in areas like translation, data entry, and junior computer science, with concerns about society polarizing into an elite who *"own the compute"* and an underclass. 2. *The Rise of Efficient, Specialized, and Agentic Models:* There's a clear trend toward models that are highly efficient and specialized, such as *Grok 4 Fast* (high performance, much cheaper), *Spiking Brain Models* (brain-mimicking, massive energy savings), and various *AI coding agents/workflows* (GitHub Spec Kit, DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus) that help automate and structure complex tasks. 3. *Widespread Integration and Market Speculation:* AI is rapidly being integrated into consumer products (*Google Gemini TV*, *Chrome/Search/YouTube language features*) and development tools, but the sector is viewed as a *"speculative bubble"* with major players like Meta continuing to invest heavily to "own the infrastructure." --- ## Top 3 Quotes 1. "Now we have exponential growth of AI which is *two to three times faster than Moore's law*. That means that doubling happens not in two-three years, but in maybe half a year or a year." (1:34) 2. "The society will kind of **polarize into elite owing AGI uh data centers, computer centers and then underclass of everybody else**." (5:14) 3. "90% of programmers use AI." (10:17) --- ## Short Summary *exponential growth of AI* - doubling faster than Moore's Law Rapid job displacement Potential for a societal split between the "compute owners" and an underclass. New model releases, including *Grok 4 Fast* and revolutionary, energy-saving *Spiking Brain Models*. *Gemini built into Google's product ecosystem* (Chrome, Search, TV). The advent of sophisticated *AI coding agents* and frameworks like GitHub's Spec Kit. Major funding rounds (Groq) General consensus that the *AI sector may be a speculative bubble*, yet companies are betting big on owning the foundational infrastructure.