Move Over OpenAI… Google Looks Ready To Take The AI Lead
Move Over OpenAI… Google Looks Ready To Take The AI Lead  
Podcast: AI For Humans: Making Artificial Intelligence Fun & Practical
Published On: Fri Aug 22 2025
Description: AI NEWS: Google’s been moving insanely fast & shipping as OpenAI & Sam Altman have been working out what went wrong with the GPT-5 launch. Will we have a new AI leader? Google’s Made By Google event introduced a new natural language photo editing software (that could be powered by Nano Banana - their secret unreleased model) and a live AI translator that feels the like future. Meanwhile, OpenAI is looking forward to GPT-6 already & Elon has Grok moving towards makin’ babies.  All that and a new Robot Watch, updates from Runway and Eleven Labs & an alpha demo of our very own new AI audio start-up AndThen!  YEAH WE MADE A COMPANY. FOR REAL WE’RE ADULTS HERE. #ai #ainews #openai   Come to our Discord to try our Secret Project: 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 // Google’s New ‘Made By Google’ Pixel & AI Event Live Stream https://www.youtube.com/live/JXCXTQIIvM0?si=-j_prVWExRkh1hUE Google AI Zoom Example https://x.com/madebygoogle/status/1958219733079048230/video/1 Natural Language Photo Editing https://blog.google/products/photos/ai-photo-editing-google-photos/ Magic Cue https://x.com/madebygoogle/status/1958221553482576212 AI Translate Example Video https://x.com/boneGPT/status/1958228439556563376 NanoBanana New Mystery Google Image Model https://x.com/ProperPrompter/status/1958545492289216751 https://x.com/emollick/status/1957588350207938937 https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1muw88f/showcase_of_the_new_nanobanana_model_on_lmarena/ Google Storybook https://x.com/GeminiApp/status/1957479712386851324 Gavin & Kevin’s Google Storybook Example https://g.co/gemini/share/89a11b2c1fdc Sam Altman Talking GPT-6 Already https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/19/sam-altman-on-gpt-6-people-want-memory.html GPT-5 Pro Does New Math? https://x.com/SebastienBubeck/status/1958198661139009862 Some context from UCLA mathematician expert: https://x.com/ErnestRyu/status/1958408925864403068 Meta “Pausing” AI Hires https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/21/meta-brakes-massive-ai-talent-recruitment-spending-spree-mark-zuckerberg-tbd-superintelligence-lab.html Runway Game Worlds LAUNCHED https://x.com/runwayml/status/1958516860149997672 ElevenLabs v3 API LAUNCHED https://x.com/matistanis/status/1958227715699445803 DeepSeek 3.1 Thinking Released https://x.com/deepseek_ai/status/1958417062008918312 Elon Will Program AI To Increase The Birth Rate https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1958500552955896206 Also: “Grok 5 has a shot at being AGI” https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1958499441469739329 Anthropic Lets Claude Quit “Abusive” Conversations https://x.com/AISafetyMemes/status/1956615568909328413 Gizmo: Cool Vibe Coded Games Platform https://x.com/MakeGizmos/status/1957522425047896095 Allex “Buff” Robot https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1957695026386842093 Unitree Tease Next Humanoid https://x.com/UnitreeRobotics/status/1957800790321775011 Getting a Leg up with End-to-end Neural Networks | Boston Dynamics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYwekersccY Winners At World Robotics Championships 100m DASH: https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1mt6iqj/100m_humanoid_champion/ STANDING JUMP: https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1956744420755439891 SOLO DANCE: https://x.com/siyuanhuang95/status/1956901673668124817 Digital Signature Based on Your Name App https://x.com/joshtriedcoding/status/1957005166294581688 CarBoarding https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1mt8v39/carboarding/ AndThen Homepage (sign up for updates!) https://andthen.chat/