Jun Li

Aloha, everyone.

It's Wednesday, November 5th, 2025, and this is episode 588.

I am Jun Li, and joining me today is Beth.

We will cover today's AI headlines, take a deeper look at AI that helps chemists discover new materials, and share a quick highlight of comfy UI, a node-based creative tool that you can try out for yourself.

This is The Daily AI Show.

It's good to see you, Beth.

Hi.

Good to be here.

Good to see you, actually.

This is definitely the news-heavy time for AI.

The late fall is usually when they come out with all of their different things, announcements, stories, and the last couple of weeks has been filled with stuff.

So why don't you start us off with a news story?

Well, I mean, it's kind of been foretold, or at least there's been a lot of chatter from the online community about, hey, they need to really get into the mix here.

And I think a lot of...

Some of the stories that come out, some of the rumors that have come out have talked about these mergers.

So having this official announcement saying, yes, we are going to move forward on these and we're going to jump back into the fray, I think is quelling some of the doom and gloom that I've heard around, oh, what are they going to do now?

They're so far behind, you know, those kinds of things.

So that's really good to hear.

Right.

All right.