AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends

AI news this week: Claude Opus 5.5 is INSANE and we love it. Faster, cheaper, better. So much for the AI slowdown. Oh and OpenAI's new thing is good too.
On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell go hands on with Claude Opus 5.5, which might be the best model we've ever used (for now). Anthropic says it hits Fable-level performance on most things at about 40% less cost than Opus 5, the writing is clearer, and yes, the five hour usage limits went up and you can now bank your resets. Then we get into what people are already making with it: a guitar store sim, a music-based side-scroller, a Mario Kart benchmark, an underwater exploration game in 3MB, claymation built in Blender, a pop punk single made entirely in code and a lot of very juicy animations.
Also: OpenAI answered with GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, two new models that are faster and a lot cheaper than what came before. We compare them with Opus 5.5 (robot hands drawing, pelicans on bicycles in Blender), wonder what OpenAI has lined up for DevDay, and talk about Bel, the reported secret model that's beating the math. Oh, and there's a new Grok. Grok 4.7. It's out. (crickets)
Plus: Gavin used Meshy 7.1 to turn a few photos of himself into a rigged, animated 3D model and then built Gavin At Large with his Opus 5.5 agent, a game where a giant Gavin wrecks a lil town. In Actually Useful AI, GPT-6 Astra makes simple motion graphics for a real book trailer. And in AI See What You Did There: Dario vs Sam in a very weird gun fight showdown and what happens when you point Claude at the Moving Image Archive.
AI SLOWDOWN? NEVER HEARD OF HER.
// Chapters //
 
00:00 Claude Opus 5.5 & GPT-6 Sol: So Much For The AI Slowdown
03:35 Claude Opus 5.5: Fable-Level Performance For Less (And Bigger Usage Limits)
11:45 Opus 5.5 Is Crazy Good At Making Games
18:02 Opus 5.5 Creative Use Cases: Claymation, Animation, & Education Tools
23:28 GPT-6 Sol & Luna: OpenAI's Faster, Cheaper Models
27:47 What's Next? OpenAI's Rumored Bel Model & Grok 4.7
33:22 Giant Gavin: Turning Myself Into A 3D Model With Meshy 7.1
39:03 Actually Useful AI: GPT-6 Astra Makes Motion Graphics
41:35 AI See What You Did There: Dario vs Sam & The Moving Image Archive
 
// Show Links //
Introducing Claude Opus 5.5
https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-5
Opus 5.5 guitar store sim
https://x.com/bijanbowen/status/2102532400353829356
https://x.com/bijanbowen/status/2102647714857222312
Opus 5.5 music-based side-scroller
https://x.com/riku720720/status/2102547249834385584
Opus 5.5 on the Mario Kart bench
https://x.com/sawyerhood/status/2102550264914038834
Underwater exploration game in 3MB
https://claude.ai/artifact/ReCBQGZ4EirKSiEmT8XXfs
Card pack opening (made with a very simple prompt)
https://claude.ai/artifact/FiowCxgcuqAvjL9ANRYjQU
Claude juice animation
https://claude.ai/share/33a38af0-97cd-4d4b-a9af-ae065de70436
Using Blender to make claymation animation
https://x.com/JacobMolBio/status/2102569129026916389
Full blown animations
https://x.com/other__reality/status/2102514581684052169
A pop punk single made entirely in code
https://x.com/aj_dev_smith/status/2102575577563570450
Interactive lens lab
https://x.com/RyanSael/status/2102591147927654847
Introducing GPT-6 Sol and Luna
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-sol-and-luna/
Robot hand drawing comparison
https://x.com/dimentary/status/2102539444834402314
Pelican on a bicycle in Blender test
https://x.com/atomic_chat_hq/status/2102492834485895265
Grok 4.7
https://x.com/SpaceXAI/status/2102069815225586149
Meshy 7.1 multi-image to 3D on fal
https://fal.ai/models/meshy/v7.1/multi-image-to-3d
Gavin At Large (the Giant Gavin game)
https://gavin-at-large.vercel.app
Kim's New Book: Write a Novel in 100 Days
https://kimpurcell.com/
Dario vs Sam weird gun fight showdown
https://x.com/Xanderwow_A/status/2101800791795274106
Moving Image Archive
https://x.com/covacut/status/2100990018391265297
Gavin's Claude makes a video from the archive (Fable 5.1)
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2101818839512281116
And the updated version with Opus 5.5
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2102632595792199944
 
// 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: Personal AI agents like Instinct and Meta's Muse now book your repairs, make your calls and talk to other agents. We let one into our life.
On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell dig into the week personal AI agents got real. Gavin has been living with Instinct, the viral assistant that just raised a ton on money while still in private testing. It works over text, WhatsApp and now actual phone calls, people are using it to schedule dryer repairs, and this week a stranger's Instinct asked to talk to Gavin's Instinct. It also handed out Kevin's personal info by default because it was a lil over-eager, which is where Kevin's finger wag (and the terms of service) come in. Then there's Muse, Meta's new personal agent that lives in its own app and inside WhatsApp, how it's different from OpenClaw, and the rumors that OpenAI's version is close.
Also: everyone suddenly wants to slow AI down. Dario Amodei published "We Must Pace the Frontier," Sam Altman said he agrees, Demis Hassabis said it points to the right path, Elon Musk said "Dario is right," and the White House is not on board. We try to make sense of why this is happening now (recursive self-improvement, the Hugging Face incident, and Sam talking up an unreleased model that's crushing math) and what it means for you. OpenAI also shared a new framework for publicly reporting model misalignment.
Plus: Jev from TypeSafe AI is a new sort of model. It's not a chatbot. It makes fast typed decisions in 70 to 500 milliseconds, which means it can play Doom and Mario in real time, trade stocks, fly a drone and power a lil game called Jev Hero. And in AI See What You Did There: Claude Opus 5 makes really cool JavaScript animations (Gavin tried it too), the AI Seinfeld videos are getting good, and MiniMax nails micro expressions.
MY AI WILL CALL YOUR AI. PLEASE DON'T GIVE IT MY SOCIAL.
// Show Links //
Instinct
https://instinct.com/
TechCrunch: Instinct's AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/24/instincts-powerful-ai-assistant-is-raising-privacy-and-security-concerns/
Gavin's Instinct experience, continued
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2100016746631721459
Instinct scheduled a dryer repair
https://x.com/eliweisss/status/2098918455957189107
Instinct can now handle phone calls
https://x.com/noahrshinn/status/2100262985491231101
Meta introduces Muse, its personal AI agent
https://about.fb.com/news/2026/09/introducing-muse-personal-ai-agent/
Sam Altman's tease (OpenAI's version is a rumor, not confirmed)
https://x.com/sama/status/2100351958167220547
Sam Altman on the unreleased model beating all the math
https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/2100144714251198466
Dario Amodei: We Must Pace the Frontier
https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier
Sam Altman agrees with Dario
https://x.com/sama/status/2098811563415150910
Demis Hassabis on pacing the frontier
https://x.com/demishassabis/status/2098909516582490602
Elon Musk at the All-In Summit
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2099737765260763348
OpenAI's framework for reporting model misalignment
https://openai.com/index/model-misalignment-reporting-framework/
Kim's New Book: Write a Novel in 100 Days
https://kimpurcell.com/
TypeSafe AI introduces System One models and Jev
https://typesafe.ai/blog/introducing-system-one-models-and-jev
https://x.com/CompleteSkeptic/status/2099925682726002904
Jev plays Doom in real time
https://x.com/CompleteSkeptic/status/2099925687465570372
Jev plays Mario
https://x.com/faadilhshaik/status/2100086301894881578
Jev as a real-time stock buyer and seller
https://x.com/jarrodwatts/status/2100356151468585346
Jev organizing and filtering types of words (with demo)
https://x.com/stevekrouse/status/2100287368221659289
https://typesafe-demo.val.run/
Jev drone traversal
https://x.com/EGafni/status/2100386169100149229
Jev Hero
https://jevhero.val.run/
Pause Gate, told through fruit
https://x.com/charliebcurran/status/2099981045655556370
Claudio of Anthropos
https://x.com/arikuschnir/status/2100555376856830381
Claude Opus 5 makes really cool JavaScript animations
https://x.com/kevin_t_ngo/status/2099858454043349342
Gavin's Claude takes a shot at it
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2100404534514536955
The AI Seinfeld videos are getting good
https://x.com/rydudebro/status/2100055497751646320
MiniMax micro expressions
https://x.com/SD_Tutorial/status/2097966014239781051
 
// 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: GPT-6 Astra is here and it does everything. We spent a week inside it (Blender, GarageBand, a full live game) to find out what it's actually great at.
On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell go hands-on with OpenAI's Astra, aka GPT-6, and it's real good (and real expensive). The headline for us is computer use, and specifically Blender: Astra builds 3D scenes from a sentence, and the internet is already making Backrooms worlds, a hyper-real Palace of Fine Arts, and the Billie Jean dance. Gavin ran his own experiments, including a Parappa The Rapper style animation and a head-to-head with GPT 5.6. Plus: Astra identifying sounds from spectrograms, driving MS Paint and Canva, editing a full project, playing Zork as a walk-around game, remaking Paperboy in 3D, editing Super Nintendo games in real time, making music in Logic, and a League of Legends "cease and desist edition" that raises the big question of how copyright even keeps up with this.
Also: the OpenAI Navier-Stokes math drama. NYU's Tristan Buckmaster and Anthropic's Levent Alpöge used AI to make a real advance on a 200-year-old fluid problem, and then, according to Buckmaster, OpenAI raced in with a 100-page proof of the same route and things got very ugly over credit. When your AI collaborator's lab can see what you're close to, who owns the idea?
Plus: Gavin built King of the Prompts, a live competitive prompting game made with Astra and MiniMax H3 Max, and he'll tell you what it is, why he made it, and what it costs to run. And an AI See What You Did There with Skyrim: Senior Living, AI Denzel Washington delivering maybe the best AI video ever made, and a fruit fly brain that learned the YMCA (and lost the ability to love).
WE'RE DEEP IN THE ASTRA JUICE. SEND HELP (AND TOKENS).


// Chapters //
 
00:00 GPT-6 Astra Is Real Good (And Real Expensive)
03:35 What Astra Is Actually Good At: Computer Use
06:15 Astra In Blender: Backrooms, Palace Of Fine Arts & Billie Jean
10:57 Astra Remakes Paperboy & Will People Play AI Games?
16:20 Astra Makes Music In Logic (And Simulates A DJ Stage)
19:40 Kevin's Existential Crisis Of App Release
22:50 The OpenAI Navier-Stokes Drama: Who Owns An AI-Assisted Proof?
27:59 Gavin Built King Of The Prompts (Astra + MiniMax H3 Max)
35:15 AI See What You Did There: Skyrim Senior Living, AI Denzel & FLY-M-C-A
 
// Show Links //
OpenAI introduces GPT-6 Astra
https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/
Duncan Trussell's Backrooms in Blender (the whole thread is great)
https://x.com/duncantrussell/status/2096003511104508411
Hyper-realistic Palace of Fine Arts in Blender
https://x.com/sharifshameem/status/2095653641164329143
Recreating the Billie Jean dance in Blender
https://x.com/flavioAd/status/2097067419248296389
Gavin's Parappa The Rapper style animation
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2096454789328752682
Gavin: Astra builds a scene from scratch vs GPT 5.6
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2096234912441626724
Astra identifies sounds from spectrograms
https://x.com/maxxrubin_/status/2096892510241268094
Astra in MS Paint (and Canva)
https://x.com/The_Alex/status/2096776453283360803
Zork as a walk-around game
https://x.com/emollick/status/2096047660662722620
Paperboy 3D remake
https://x.com/builtbysketch/status/2096515959469072630
League of Legends: Cease and Desist Edition
https://x.com/konstiwohlwend/status/2097164513527357608
Matt Shumer's AI agent Unreal project
https://x.com/mattshumer_/status/2096034353344139519
SuperAstra: edit Super Nintendo games in real time
https://x.com/scottastevenson/status/2096972908828426747
https://github.com/ScottStevenson/SuperAstra
Astra connected to Logic to make music
https://x.com/MarioSaputra/status/2096908100871836123
DJ stage simulations
https://x.com/cerspense/status/2096960824535572498
The OpenAI Navier-Stokes credit drama (Buckmaster's account)
https://x.com/cguth_7/status/2097206622602854882
King of the Prompts (Gavin's new game)
https://kingoftheprompts.com/
Skyrim: Senior Living
https://x.com/GORMTHEOLD25/status/2096994048758137013
AI Denzel Washington on AI slop
https://x.com/Nekodificador/status/2096682353011630237
FLY-M-C-A: a fruit fly brain learns the YMCA
https://x.com/dhruvbhatia0/status/2097047404239581265
 
// 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

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: a mystery AI called 0x Alpha appeared out of nowhere. It's completely free (for now), it's really good at coding, nobody will say who made it. So obviously we tested it.
On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell dig into where 0x Alpha might have come from, the continual learning conspiracy theories, and exactly how you can try it yourself right now for free. Then Gavin spends fifty hard earned Patreon dollars testing MiniMax H3 Max, the supposedly super fast new AI video model from Fal, and... look, we'll just tell you what happened.
Also: the World Humanoid Robot Games happened in Beijing, and it was the greatest event in AI For Humans history. A robot sprinter beat Usain Bolt's 100m time, robots set high jump and long jump records, and a whole lot of other robots fell down in ways that will make you feel much better about the future.
Plus: Mr. Beast quietly goes back to AI thumbnails, Dr. Dre has thoughts about AI and creativity, Delta wants AI to set your ticket price, someone seeded a fake product to the top of ChatGPT's recommendations, and Apple Messages may be blocking ChatGPT. And an AI See What You Did There with week four of the fishing game built entirely with AI and all of San Francisco as a playable video game.
NOBODY MADE IT. EVERYBODY'S TESTING IT. WE'D LIKE TO EAT SOME WORMS.
 
// Show Links //
0x Alpha, the mystery model free on OpenRouter
https://openrouter.ai/stealth/ox-alpha
https://x.com/opencode/status/2090544355824038300?s=20
Rumors 0x Alpha is "continually learning" (and the doubters)
https://x.com/Bhavani_00007/status/2091936998730940699?s=20
The continual learning "conspiracy"
https://x.com/Hesamation/status/2092157700608053751?s=20
https://x.com/TimJayas/status/2091779605921460563?s=20
Gavin's Claude Code called 0x Alpha cocky
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2092106801638760591?s=20
MiniMax H3 Max, post-trained by Fal
https://x.com/gorkem/status/2091945568411255288?s=20
The H3 Max promise
https://x.com/gokayfem/status/2091991790219841875?s=20
Magnific's MiniMax H3 Max promo
https://x.com/magnific/status/2091922612989706432?s=20
Free two weeks of MiniMax H3
https://x.com/MiniMax_AI/status/2091948930124947941?s=20
Ink/smoke graphic prompt to try
https://x.com/techhalla/status/2091483350934397091?s=20
Convert 16x9 to 9x16 prompts
https://x.com/Framer_X/status/2091964772656799810?s=20
Create sprites & animations for games
https://x.com/andrew_n_carr/status/2091560238558429560?s=20
A robot sprinter beat Usain Bolt's 100m time
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-robot-usain-bolt-sprint-run-record-faster/
https://x.com/EHuanglu/status/2091213372717179143?s=20
Did robots discover a new running method?
https://x.com/ErenChenAI/status/2091714982572409241?s=20
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202608/1368875.shtml?ref=explainx
Standing high jump record
https://x.com/RT_com/status/2091204407954178459
Long jump record
https://x.com/ViralRushX/status/2091811768364605512?s=20
Weightlifting fails
https://x.com/WHRGFUN/status/2091897948787372368?s=20
Obstacle course fails
https://x.com/WHRGFUN/status/2092011943594737838?s=20
https://x.com/clankrmedia/status/2091862394146312291?s=20
Faceplant off the box
https://x.com/takumi_k_jpn/status/2091796599924220077?s=20
Robot dance fail
https://x.com/pianhangx/status/2091934123019637157?s=20
Gavin's robot tennis fail video
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2091366474984390872?s=20
Mr. Beast back to AI thumbnails (sorta)
https://x.com/mws/status/2091631742411022670?s=20
Dr. Dre on AI
https://x.com/Variety/status/2091515812087480538?s=20
Delta to use AI for dynamic pricing
https://x.com/HedgieMarkets/status/2090855841050120512?s=20
Week 4 of the fishing game made entirely with AI
https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vxdnw6/week_4_of_making_my_fishing_game_entirely_with_ai/
All of San Francisco as a video game
https://x.com/cdngdev/status/2091909073038082139?s=20
https://sf.thijs.gg
 
// 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/