It’s finally here. After months of hype and “is it coming this week?” guesses, OpenAI has dropped GPT-5—and it’s not just another model update. This one’s faster, smarter, and feels a whole lot more human.

And OpenAI didn’t stop there. They also surprised everyone with their first open-weight model in over six years. Meanwhile, Google and Anthropic weren’t about to sit quietly—both rolled out big updates of their own.

In this episode, Jeff Keltner dives into the week’s AI news, including:

• The five standout features that make GPT-5 a real game-changer
• Google’s Gemini 2.5 Deep Think and its team-of-AI-agents approach
• Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.1 upgrade
• Bold moves in AI media—from Elon’s spicy Grok videos to 11 Labs’ text-to-music magic

Relevant links:

• Grok Imagine now generates 15s videos in-app
• ElevenLabs unveils Eleven Music for full song generation
• Google’s Genie 3 builds persistent 3D world simulations
• Gemini Storybook creates illustrated, narrated kids’ books
• Microsoft unveils CLIO for real-time reasoning adaptation
• DeepMind and Kaggle launch Game Arena for model benchmarking
• OpenAI redesigns ChatGPT for emotional safety and better outcomes