Anthropic Drops a Monster Model

Brian and Andy hosted this pre Thanksgiving episode and opened with platform issues, live chat glitches, and holiday energy in the air. They talked through the growing instability of their streaming setup and then shifted into the day’s news. The episode touched on the chip wars, new optical computing breakthroughs, OpenAI’s cameo trademark fight, the launch of OpenAI’s shopping assistant, Google’s Notebook LM upgrades, and Anthropic’s surprise release of Opus 4.5. The show ended with Brian demoing his Gemini powered “Infinite Bard” project and discussing why Gemini has become his default model for creative work.Key Points DiscussedMeta explores using Google TPUs, dropping Nvidia’s stock by about 4 percentResearchers show an optical computing breakthrough that rivals GPU performanceCameo wins a temporary restraining order blocking OpenAI from using the name CameoOpenAI launches a shopping assistant powered by a GPT 5 mini modelNotebook LM continues rapid improvement with Gemini 3, Nano Banana, and guided learningGemini excels in stability, fast prompting, large task reasoning, and tool buildingAnthropic releases Opus 4.5 with superhuman coding performance on SWE BenchOpus 4.5 introduces automatic context compression and major token efficiency gainsPricing shows Opus remains expensive but far more efficient than earlier versionsEnterprise users may heavily benefit from reduced token usage in agent workflowsBrian demos his Gemini “Infinite Bard” choose your own adventure engineGemini’s use of silent markdown context files enables branching story continuityTimestamps and Topics00:00:00 👋 Opening, holiday week, platform issues00:02:01 ⚙️ Meta explores using Google TPUs, Nvidia drops03:07:00 💡 Optical computing breakthrough using single laser tensor processing05:24:00 🔌 Chip efficiency and heat advantages of laser based systems06:43:00 ⚖️ Cameo wins temporary restraining order against OpenAI07:56:00 💬 Naming confusion across AI products09:11:00 🛍️ OpenAI launches interactive shopping assistant11:18:00 💻 Shopping UX walkthrough and first impressions12:19:00 📝 Notebook LM’s rapid upgrades and visual generation improvements14:01:00 🎧 Guided learning, audio overviews, and Notebook LM evolution16:02:00 🛒 Shopping assistant reasoning and laptop recommendations17:32:00 🧭 Shopping agents compared to Gen Spark and others18:53:00 🔍 Search consolidation, OpenAI’s OS ambitions20:04:00 🤖 Anthropic Opus 4.5 overview20:59:00 🧪 Superhuman coding performance on Anthropic’s hiring exam21:44:00 🧵 Context compression and unlimited conversation length22:59:00 📊 Benchmark comparison against Gemini 3 and Codex Max24:47:00 💰 Pricing for Opus, Sonnet, Haiku, and prompt caching26:05:00 ⚙️ Opus 4.5 token efficiency improvements27:27:00 🔄 Rate limits and concerns about Claude reliability32:58:00 🌐 Brian explains why Gemini has become his default model33:56:00 🎮 Demo of the Infinite Bard interactive storytelling gem35:26:00 📚 Using Gemini as a rapid prototyping engine37:21:00 🧩 Initial story branches and decision logic40:57:00 🗂️ Silent markdown files for inventory and story continuity44:51:00 🧠 Why Gemini excels at constrained creative generation47:18:00 📐 Prompt building with XML tags and gem architecture49:27:00 🧱 Using a prompt architect to build tools for tools50:14:00 📆 Upcoming holiday week schedule51:35:00 🏁 Closing and outroThe Daily AI Show Co Hosts: Brian Maucere and Andy Halliday

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