Generative AI 101

AI Workslop: When AI Takes Over the Office

16 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Host Emily Laird breaks out the digital flamethrower and torches the rise of “Workslop”, ya know, the AI-generated sludge clogging inboxes and kil...

Chatbots Are Out, Cyborg Coworkers Are In: Welcome to the Age of Superagency

15 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Host Emily Laird grabs the mic and declares the chatbot era officially dead. In this wild episode, she breaks down how GPT-5, AgentOS, and offline AI ...

ChatGPT Turns 3: From Chatbot to the New WiFi

10 Dec 2025

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ChatGPT started as a chatbot and ended up running your digital life like an unpaid IT guy with attitude. In this episode, host Emily Laird traces how ...

ChatGPT Turns 3: Rise of the Prompt People

09 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

ChatGPT didn’t sneak in quietly. It crashed through the internet like a caffeinated octopus, messy, fast, and suddenly everywhere. In this episode, ...

ChatGPT Turns 3: The Origin Story

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Saturday, January 25, 2025 10:53 AM Before ChatGPT started writing your emails and explaining physics like a brunch topic, OpenAI was a cash-hungry re...

World Models vs LLMs

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Large Language Models might sound smart, but can they predict what happens when a cat sees a cucumber? In this episode, host Emily Laird throws LLMs i...

World Models for Beginners

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

World models aren’t a sci-fi subplot, no, they’re how AIs build mini fake worlds in their silicon skulls to test ideas without wrecking your car o...

Yann LeCun: Trading META for World Models

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Yann LeCun, deep learning pioneer and Meta’s AI heavyweight, is out and he's not leaving quietly. In this episode host Emily Laird unpacks his philo...

Dear K–12, AI Isn’t Optional Anymore. Love, Emily

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Banning ChatGPT in schools is like banning pencils because kids might doodle. In this episode, host Emily Laird takes a flamethrower to the myth that ...

OpenAI's New Atlas Browser

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI just gave your browser a brain and possibly a caffeine addiction. In this episode, host Emily Laird is ripping into Atlas, OpenAI’s Chrome-po...

GPU-nami: OpenAI’s $38B Cloud Fling with AWS

10 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI just dropped $38 billion like it’s tipping the bartender at the GPU speakeasy, and the lucky recipient? Amazon Web Services (AWS if ya nasty)...

What is Claude 4.5?

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Claude 4.5 isn’t just the teacher’s pet, it’s running the class, grading the papers, and rewriting the syllabus in Python. In this episode, Emil...

Alexa, Fire Middle Management: The Amazon Layoffs

04 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Last week, Amazon axed 14,000 white-collar jobs, and this time, the pink slip came with a side of machine learning. In this episode, Emily Laird is un...

GPU vs TPU

03 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What do Call of Duty, Google Cloud, and your favorite cat video have in common? They all owe their lives to a battle raging deep inside your devices: ...

Meta Firings: The Great FAIR Purge and Rise of the AI Death Star

28 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Meta just threw its AI playbook in the shredder, lit the ashes on fire, and built a secret lab on top. In this episode, Emily Laird breaks down the en...

Domo Arigato, Laundry-Bot-o: Meet Figure 03

27 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Humanoid robots are no longer sci-fi fever dreams or Silicon Valley party tricks, they’re coming for your chores (at least we hope). In this episode...

Tilly Norwood: Artificially Famous

16 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tilly Norwood isn’t real but she is raising real eyebrows. Billed as the next Natalie Portman (if Natalie were a laggy IKEA algorithm), this AI “a...

Swamp Thing: Musk’s AI Beast Rises in Memphis

15 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Elon Musk isn’t just tweeting through it, he’s building a supercomputer the size of a football stadium in the swamps of Memphis. It's called Colos...

Janitor AI: Chatbots Gone Wild (Seriously)

14 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A continuation of Emily's exploration into the Andreeson Horowitz Top 100 Generative AI apps. Janitor AI is a full-blown fever dream with 5 million u...

OpenAI Dev Day 2025: The Recap

13 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI Dev Day 2025 wasn’t just a product drop, it was a full-on software coup. In this episode, host Emily Laird breaks down how ChatGPT graduated ...

Talk Nerdy to Me: All About Character AI

08 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Character.AI is where Shakespeare meets Snapchat and your anime boyfriend quotes Nietzsche in real time. In this episode, Emily Laird explores the com...

OpenAI's New Toys: Sora 2, a New App, and a Pulse in Pulse

07 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI just dropped Sora, a sleek new app that uses the brand new Sora 2 video gen model, and something called Pulse in Pro. Host Emily Laird breaks d...

Dear AGI, You Still Make Me Nervous... Love Always, Emily.

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What do you get when you mix billion-dollar egos, unfinished AI code, and an arms race mindset? A potential disaster with better branding. In this epi...

10 Gigawatts and a Dream: OpenAI, NVIDIA, and the $100B Compute Flex

23 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What do you get when OpenAI and NVIDIA throw $100 billion at the problem of thinking machines? A digital superhighway powered by 10 gigawatts of GPU-f...

Meta’s AR Glow-Up

22 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

  Meta’s back on your face and this time, it’s not just a privacy nightmare in disguise. In this episode, Emily Laird breaks down Meta’s latest...

Fact-Check or Fail: How to Keep Your AI From Making Stuff Up

17 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, host Emily Laird teaches you how to keep your AI from bluffing like your cousin Chad at Thanksgiving. No code. No blood moon ritua...

OpenAI, Oracle, and the 4.5 Gigawatt Hunger Games

16 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Title:  a16z 5th Edition Pt. 4: No-Code, Just Vibes & the Top of the Class OpenAI’s rumored $300 billion cloud pact with Oracle isn’t just an...

The FTC Enters the Chat (And It’s Not Flirting)

15 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The FTC just knocked on the doors of seven AI giants, including OpenAI, Meta, and Snap (amongst many others) with legally binding orders, and they’r...

a16z 5th Edition Pt. 4: No-Code, Just Vibes & the Top of the Class

12 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Forget Python. The new software builders are riding high on vibes, drag, drop, done. In this episode, host Emily Laird breaks down “vibe coding,” ...

a16z 5th Edition Pt.3: China's AI Multiverse

10 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

China’s not just building AI, it’s building a whole other version of the internet to run it on. In this episode, host Emily Laird take a sneaking ...

a16z 5th Edition Pt.2: Googlezilla

09 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The AI hype machine is cooling off, fewer shiny new toys, more serious contenders. In this episode, hostess with the mostest (of something) Emily Lair...

The Nerd Billboard 100: a16z’s AI Hit Parade

08 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Venture capital powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz, aka a16z, because vowels are apparently optional in Silicon Valley, has been quietly shaping the gener...

The Go Series Pt. 4: Your Move, Human

27 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AlphaGo didn’t just beat a Go champion, it rewrote the rules of competition. In this episode, host Emily Laird discusses Lee Sedol’s post-match ar...

The Go Series Pt. 3: Humanity's Last Flex

25 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AlphaGo may have crushed Lee Sedol, but the aftermath wasn’t just about losing, it was about what humans still bring to the table. In this episode, ...

The Go Series Pt. 2: Move 37 & the God Move

20 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AlphaGo vs. Lee Sedol wasn’t just a board game, it was humanity staring down its algorithmic doppelgänger and wondering who gets the last laugh. In...

The Go Series, Pt. 1: The Game That Broke the Board

19 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Go isn’t just old, it’s ancient, intimidating, and smarter than it looks. For decades, it stood as the Everest of board games, the one thing AI co...

Mixture of Experts: The Wu-Tang Clang of AI

18 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What do trivia night, jazz bands, and IKEA furniture have in common? They all make more sense once you understand Mixture of Experts. In this episode,...

ChatGPT's Study Mode: Homework’s Plot Twist

13 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Is ChatGPT here to help you ace the test or just do your homework for you? In this episode, host Emily Laird unpacks OpenAI’s new Study Mode, a feat...

What’s the Difference Between AGI and Superintelligence?

12 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AGI can do anything you can, write, reason, crack jokes, without being told how. Superintelligence can do all that and make you look like a potato wit...

The One About ChatGPT-5

11 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI’s GPT-5 isn’t just an upgrade, it’s a whole crew of AIs working together. One’s fast, one’s a deep thinker, and a couple work the che...

Google DeepMind: A Mini Origin Story

06 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What do you get when you mix a chess prodigy, a neuroscience detour, and a borderline obsession with solving intelligence? Google DeepMind. In this ep...

Kimi K2 & the Continuation of the Great AI Arms Race

05 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Meet Kimi K2! Join host Emily Laird as she explores the trillion-parameter powerhouse from Shanghai-based Moonshot AI that's throwing elbows at GPT-4....

Perplexity's Comet Browser & the Rise of AI Browsers

04 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Chrome is toast (ok, probably not). Or at least, it might be if Perplexity’s Comet Browser has anything to say about it. In this episode, host Emily...

Meta's Billion Dollar UpScale

30 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Meta just dropped $14.3 billion to buy half of Scale AI and hired their CEO like it was a fantasy football draft. In this episode, host Emily Laird un...

Zuck to the Future: Meta's Superintelligence Lab

29 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Meta just rage-quit its own AI strategy and rolled out the Superintelligence Lab, because nothing says "totally under control" like consolidating team...

OpenAI’s Agent: What It Is, What It Does, and Why It’s a Big Deal

28 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI’s Agent isn’t here to make small talk. It’s here to get stuff done, like your caffeinated intern who never sleeps, never eats, but still ...

AI: The Ozempic of Corporate America

23 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Corporate America’s on Ozempic, and the side effect is mass layoffs. In this episode, host Emily Laird slices into the juicy mess of the AI-powered ...

Andy Jassy & the AI Workforce Purge

22 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy just dropped a memo that’s equal parts pep talk and pink slip warning: AI is amazing, and it’s coming for your job. In this ...

The AI Job Market Has Entered the Chat

21 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Forget robot overlords. For now, AI still needs us to clean up its messes, cast its voices, and make sure it doesn’t accidentally go full Bond villa...

AI Pro Tips Series: Prompt Like a Pro

18 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sick of AI giving you answers with all the flavor of corporate hold music? In this episode of our AI Pro Tips series, Emily Laird cracks open the secr...

AI Pro Tips Series: Assumptions & Stakeholders

17 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Think you’ve got all your project bases covered? Think again. In this episode, Emily Laird calls out the hidden holes in your plans that even your e...

AI Pro Tips Series: Anthropomorphism

16 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Think giving your chatbot a name is just for weirdos and sci-fi fans? Think again. In this episode, Emily Laird tosses out the dry tips and goes full ...

OpenAI's June 2025 Disrupting Malicious Use of AI: Part Deux

11 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI isn’t just doing your homework anymore, it’s helping build malware, write fake job offers, and launch cyberattacks faster than you can say “C...

OpenAI's June 2025 Disrupting Malicious Use of AI Report

10 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Generative AI has a dark side, and it’s not just stealing jobs, it’s applying for them. In this episode, host Emily Laird goes underground with Op...

Miami-Dade County & the Rise of the GenAI Natives

09 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI isn’t just crashing Miami’s pool parties anymore, it’s moving into the classroom, and no, it’s not just helping kids cheat better. In this ...

AI & Jobs: On Amodei, Huang, & Roose

05 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Grab your ergonomic chair and emotional support coffee, this one’s about your job, and whether AI already has it. In this episode of Generative AI 1...

Google's Veo 3 Part 2: Use Cases

04 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Lights, camera, algorithm! This week, host Emily Laird hands the director’s chair to Google’s Veo 3, an AI video model that spits out 4K cinematic...

Google's Veo 3 Part 1

03 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Google DeepMind just dropped Veo 3, and it's basically Final Cut Pro with a soul—or at least a solid camera sense. This episode, we're breaking down...

Return of the Ive: OpenAI’s $6.5B Minimalist Makeover

02 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What happens when OpenAI gives $6.5 billion to the man who made your iPhone hot and your MacBook sleek? You get a screenless, AI-native gadget designe...

AI & Copyright: The USCO's 3rd AI Report... The Spicy One.

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Let's break down the U.S. Copyright Office’s spicy third report on AI, ya know, the one that's throwing elbows and reportedly got Perlmutter canned....

AI & Copyright: The USCO Trilogy

21 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI-generated Tom Cruise? Button-mashing cyberpunk operas? Welcome to the legal circus. In this episode, Emily Laird breaks down the U.S. Copyright Off...

AI & Copyright: Pipe Dreams & Legal Screams

20 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

So you typed “a cat smoking a pipe in Van Gogh’s style” into your favorite AI tool, cool flex, but don’t try to copyright it. In this episode,...

AI & Copyright: ...Yikes.

19 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Generative AI crashed the copyright party in 2023 and it didn’t wipe its boots at the door. In this episode, we break down the chaotic, caffeinated ...

H2-Oh No! Why Your ChatGPT Habit Is Drying Out the Planet

07 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Think AI runs on math and magic? Try 66 billion liters of water. In this episode, host Emily Laird exposes AI’s dirty little secret: data centers ar...

Your Chatbot vs. the Planet

06 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI isn't magic; it's math and metal, and it has a monster appetite for electricity. In this episode, host Emily Laird digs into the eco-footprint of G...

The LMSArena Illusion

05 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ever wonder who’s really winning the Chatbot Arena and whether those wins mean anything at all? In this episode of Generative AI 101, host Emily Lai...

I, Chatbot: Does Your LLM Dream of Electric Angst?

30 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Let's crack open the philosophical piñata known as machine consciousness. Can an LLM feel pride? Regret? Existential dread when you close the browser...

Dario Amodei's Latest Essay

29 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Let's crack open Dario Amodei’s latest essay, The Urgency of Interpretability, and ask the big, slightly terrifying question: do we actually know wh...

AI as Therapist, Yep, It's Happening.

28 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI therapy apps are popping off, but should you really trust a chatbot with your late-night existential crisis? In this episode, we crack open the wei...

Image Prompt Like a Pro, Yo!

23 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Image generation isn’t magic, it’s a recipe. In this episode, host Emily Laird is stirring up the flavorful world of AI image prompting using keyw...

A1 Art: How to Feed Your Prompt Like a Pro

22 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Image prompting isn’t just “describe it and pray”, it’s ordering a gourmet dish at a snobby robot diner. This week on Generative AI 101, Emily...

Dude, Where's My Job?

21 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI isn’t just flirting with your job anymore, it’s taking it out to dinner and meeting its parents. In this episode, host Emily Laird digs into th...

GPT-4.1: All Hail the Lord of the Tokens!

16 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

GPT-4.1 is here, and it’s not messing around. In this episode, Emily Laird breaks down why this model is smarter, faster, and hungrier than any AI w...

AI’s Hot Girl Year (According to Stanford)

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI isn’t some distant overlord plotting in a lab; it’s already writing your emails, diagnosing your cough, and maybe deciding your loan approval. ...

ChatGPT Knows What You Did Last Summer.

14 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

ChatGPT just got a memory upgrade, and no, it’s not just remembering your favorite pizza toppings. OpenAI’s newest update means the chatbot can no...

The AI Futures Project: Part 4, The End

11 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

  It’s 2027, and things are getting... spicy. This episode, host Emily Laird breaks down the summer-to-fall chaos from The AI Futures Project—a q...

The AI Future's Project Part 3: 2027

10 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI’s gone full sci-fi and it’s only January. In this episode, host Emily Laird walks us through the first half of 2027 in the AI Futures Project, ...

The AI Future's Project Part 2: 2026

09 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s 2026 and AI isn’t just helping out, it’s taking over the whiteboard and your white-collar job. In this episode, host Emily Laird breaks dow...

The AI Future's Project Part 1

08 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI agents have officially stopped playing assistant and started acting like your over-caffeinated junior dev—occasionally brilliant, mostly chaotic,...

AGI is Coming. There, I Said It.

07 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI’s not just playing Jeopardy anymore, it’s coming for the Mensa crowd. In this episode, host Emily Laird spirals (productively) over Humanity’...

Google's Gemini 2.5

01 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Google’s Gemini 2.5 just set a new standard on Humanity’s Last Exam and flexed hard in the AI Fight Club, outpacing GPT-4.5 and Grok-3. It reasons...

Humanity's Last Exam

31 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Standardized tests are getting torched like marshmallows at a bonfire, and AI's top students are flunking the new final. In this episode, Emily unpack...

a16z Top Gen AI Consumer Apps Report: Big Money & Big Scams

20 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mobile AI apps are raking in cash—or at least convincing you that your fern obsession is worth $20 a month. This episode dissects the Andreessen Hor...

a16z Top Gen AI Consumer Apps Report: The VibeCoder Revolution

19 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Forget dark-mode IDEs and midnight debugging crises—AI tools are ushering in a vibecoder revolution. This episode unpacks the surge in agentic IDEs ...

a16z Top Gen AI Consumer Apps Report: Reverage of the Video Gen Models

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI video generation isn't awkwardly fumbling anymore—it's making Hollywood sweat. This episode explores the meteoric rise of Gen AI video apps like ...

a16z Top Gen AI Consumer Apps Report: ChatGPT & Deepseek

17 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI moves fast—one minute you're on top, the next, you're a footnote. In this episode of Generative AI 101, we break down the latest Andreessen Horow...

Alibaba’s QwQ-32B-Preview: Qw... Q... the Future?

13 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Alibaba’s QwQ-32B-Preview is here, and it’s not just another chatbot—it’s an AI reasoning machine that can handle complex math, coding, and lo...

Llama 3.3 70B: A lean, mean, useful AI

12 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Let's chat Meta's Llama 3.3 70B. This lean, mean AI machine can generate text, write code, and even produce synthetic data—all without needing a sup...

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: The AI That Codes & Computes

11 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Claude 3.7 Sonnet isn’t just another AI—it’s Anthropic’s latest and smartest yet, balancing speed and deep reasoning like a human flipping bet...

ChatGPT 4.5: The Wildcard of AI

10 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

ChatGPT 4.5 isn’t your typical AI—it’s the Marlon Brando of chatbots, rebellious, intuitive, and full of surprises. In this episode, we break do...

February 2025 Recap: AI Ethics... Oh Boy.

06 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI is growing faster than a teenager with a DoorDash addiction, rewriting history, babysitting America’s kids, and maybe taking your job… or part ...

February 2025 Recap: Industry Integration & Government Regulation

05 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI isn’t just in Silicon Valley—it’s in your bank, your weather app, and maybe even deciding how much you’ll pay for groceries. Meanwhile, gov...

February 2025 Recap: AI, Lawsuits, and a $97 Billion Bid

04 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Corporate AI is a battlefield, and February 2025 was full of billion-dollar moves, legal battles, and rejected takeovers. Elon Musk tried (and failed)...

February 2025 Recap: AI Breakthroughs

03 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

February 2025 was wild. China launched an AI-powered space race, OpenAI decided to Marie Kondo its model lineup, and Microsoft unveiled a quantum proc...

Grok & Roll: Musk’s AI War and the Fight for AGI

27 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Elon Musk isn’t just building another chatbot—he’s aiming for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) that’s smarter than us (but ideally not ho...

xAI's Colossus: Running on GPUs and Controversy

26 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

xAI’s Colossus isn’t just a supercomputer—it’s a 200,000-GPU monster with a sustainability side hustle and a power bill that could light up a ...

Grok vs. The World: Musk’s AI with a Rebel Streak

25 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Meet Grok—Elon Musk’s answer to ChatGPT, but with less polish and more attitude. Built to be “maximally helpful” (or just maximally blunt), th...

xAI: Musk, Money, and AI Mayhem

24 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Elon Musk’s latest brainchild, xAI, isn’t just another AI startup—it’s a $50 billion cosmic experiment with a punk rock attitude. In this epis...

GEO: How to Impress AI Search

19 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Traditional SEO is out. If AI can’t find you, it can’t cite you—and if it doesn’t cite you, your content might as well not exist. AI-powered s...

GEO: Stop Writing for Robots (They’re Over It)

18 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Keyword stuffing is as outdated as flip phones, and AI-driven search doesn’t care about your SEO tricks from 2012. AI isn’t just reading your cont...