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&#x27;s massive pivot as they kill Sora entirely, cancel their Disney deal, shut down &#x27;Citrus Mode&#x27;, 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&#x27;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: https://www.aiforhumans.show/ // Show Links // OpenAI CEO Preps Spud: New Frontier AI Model Coming in Weeks https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-ceo-shifts-responsibilities-preps-spud-ai-model?rc=c3oojq&amp;shared=2c9eeb0b22b15948 OpenAI Cancels Spicy Chat and Refocuses on Enterprise https://www.ft.com/content/de9bf0af-b241-424f-8229-5870b1c0d93d?syn-25a6b1a6=1 Sora Going Away Completely and Disney Deal Cancelled https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w3e467ewqo CapCut Ready to Take Sora&#x27;s Traffic https://x.com/capcutapp/status/2036943209956344181?s=20 Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Blog Post https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-1-flash-live/ Google Lyra3 Pro: New AI Audio and Music Model https://x.com/Google/status/2036836307612119488?s=20 TurboQuant from Google Research https://x.com/GoogleResearch/status/2036533564158910740 Voxtral TTS Blog Post https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral-tts Runway Multi-Shot Video App https://x.com/runwayml/status/2037170118669500537?s=20 Gavin&#x27;s First Try With Runway Multi-Shot https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2037191271106961881?s=20 Meta TRIBE v2 Demo https://aidemos.atmeta.com/tribev2/ SMASH Project Page https://mmlab.hk/Smash/

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

AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends

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**Podcast:** AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools &amp; Trends

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- **Gavin Purcell** (AI For Humans)
- **Kevin Pereira** (AI For Humans)

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OpenAI canceled Sora and they just canceled Spicy Chat. They are fully focused on enterprise, reaching AGI, and a new frontier model called Spud. Yes, is this tater-based intelligence going to get their backs off the perceived wall? And why does Anthropic seem to outship them every single day? Plus, new AI, music, and audio models from Google. And Meta has a new AI that can supposedly read our minds.

They don't want what's in here, Kevin. They don't want what's up here. I got a strong feeling many of us don't, Gavin. Well, let me tell you something because I'm thinking about this new ping pong robot. Have you seen this? It's pretty incredible. I'm going to take it and I'm going to remake Marty Supreme. I'm going to attach Timothee Chalamet... Okay, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh. Hey, good night, sweet prince. This is AI for Humans. Welcome everybody to AI For Humans, your twice a week guide to the world of AI. And today,

Kevin, we are talking about OpenAI with their backs up against the wall. I walked away from my microphone there with their backs up against the wall. They are trying to kind of slim their Ozempic, their whole company down to try to approach a new frontier model and the race to AGI. Is this chat GLP-1? Is that what we're talking? Yes, yes. Actually, that is a perfect idea. That should be. So there's been some big news over the last couple of days about OpenAI. The biggest news really, and we covered this very briefly in

our last show, is that they have canceled Sora, the AI video program. And this is a big deal. Like, they didn't just like say, we're going to cut the Sora app, which some people thought at first. Did you see the videos of the never AI people dancing in the streets, Gavin? I did. Did you see them all celebrating, drinking Chianti and shooting off streamers? I will say this. I put up a video pretty much right after it happened. And I got so many, yay responses that was like crazy. But this is a big deal. Not only did they shut down the app,

but they've taken out the entire AI video program. They are not going to lay in AI video anymore into ChatGPT. They have canceled their deal with Disney. They canceled the deal with Disney, a billion dollar deal that much hullabaloo was made over, which I think is a Jungle Book character. They're also killing the API, which means if you trusted open AI and built a business, any sort of application or whatever on the backs of this video model, bye-bye, toodles. Now, to those that celebrated in the streets, Gavin,

they were saying, oh, this is it. The generative AI is starting to die. I think that's missing the forest for the trees. Yes, hugely. The same trees that AI is using to power these machines. Yes, of course. Because in its wake, there's a million different models from other providers. ...

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