In this episode of The Road to Abundance, Gordon Mullan and Govind Shukla dive into one of the most explosive weeks in AI so far. OpenAI stunned the community with a rare double launch, releasing GPT-5 alongside brand-new open-weights models, and the ripple effects are already being felt across the tech world. DeepMind’s Genie-3 is here too, offering playable, promptable, physically consistent worlds that could change how games and simulations are built. We also explore how CRISPR-GPT is turning complete beginners into gene-editing experts in just a single day, and why some jaw-dropping robot dog demos are making people wonder if it’s time to rethink where this is all heading. And don’t forget — you can find previous episodes of The Road to Abundance on the ENGX SPACE YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@engxspace Download MP3: https://engx-space.simplecast.com/episodes/trta7
In this episode of The Road to Abundance, Gordon Mullan and Govind Shukla dive into one of the most explosive weeks in AI so far. OpenAI stunned the community with a rare double launch, releasing GPT-5 alongside brand-new open-weights models, and the ripple effects are already being felt across the tech world. DeepMind’s Genie-3 is here too, offering playable, promptable, physically consistent worlds that could change how games and simulations are built. We also explore how CRISPR-GPT is turning complete beginners into gene-editing experts in just a single day, and why some jaw-dropping robot dog demos are making people wonder if it’s time to rethink where this is all heading.
And don’t forget — you can find previous episodes of The Road to Abundance on the ENGX SPACE YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@engxspace
Download MP3: https://aia.simplecast.com/episodes/115
NAVIGATION
00:00:00 – Introduction
00:00:46 – OpenAI: GPT-5, GPT-OSS, ChatGPT Agent & Study Mode
00:32:48 – Anthropic: Funding U-turn & Claude Code Sub-agents
00:34:20 – Meta: AI in Interviews & Super-intelligence Vision
00:34:23 – Microsoft: Edge AI Upgrades & $4T Milestone
00:44:47 – Amazon: Bee AI Wearable Acquisition
00:55:17 – Mistral: Le Chat Deep Research & Codestral Upgrades
00:56:12 – Google: Veo 3 API, Genie 3, Gemini 2.5 & AlphaEarth
01:06:42 – China: Qwen Model Parade
01:09:03 – Tencent: HunyuanWorld & LeVo Text-to-Audio
01:09:53 – Z.ai: GLM-4.5 Lineup
01:10:29 – Runway: Act-Two Motion Transfer & Aleph Video Editing
01:12:21 – ElevenLabs: Eleven Music Launch
01:13:55 – JetBrains Junie: Code-fixing Agent & OSS Support
01:15:09 – Benchmarks & Mishaps: HLE, ARC-AGI-3 & Stack Overflow
01:17:30 – Law & Order: US AI Race Plan & EU AI Act
01:19:41 – Science & Tech: CRISPR-GPT & Cancer-targeting Proteins
01:29:31 – Robotics: Tesla Robotaxi Expansion & Chinese Farm Automation
01:30:16 – Ethics & Culture: AI Music, Job Risk Study & Industry Trends
01:39:52 – Final Words
SERVICES AND LINKS FROM THE EPISODE
🔹 OpenAI prepares to release GPT-5: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-prepares-gpt-5-for-roll-out
🔹 Horizon Alpha — possibly the secret GPT-5: https://x.com/OpenRouterAI/status/1950713168193282078
🔹 Leak of OpenAI model parameters: https://x.com/secemp9/status/1951162373361803522?s=46&t=pKf_FxsPGBd_YMIWTA8xgg
🔹 Introduction of ChatGPT Agent: https://futurism.com/openai-new-ai-agent-food-stadium
🔹 Anthropic seeks investment in the Persian Gulf: https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-dario-amodei-gulf-state-leaked-memo/
🔹 Sub-agents in Claude Code: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/sub-agents
🔹 Meta to allow AI in job interviews: https://devby.io/news/meta-razreshit-ispolzovat-ii-na-tehsobesah
🔹 Meta’s superintelligence mission: https://www.meta.com/superintelligence/
🔹 Amazon acquires Bee: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7353453923795378176
🔹 Edge with Copilot Mode: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/ai-powered/copilot-mode
🔹 Le Chat updates from Mistral: https://mistral.ai/news/le-chat-dives-deep%20
🔹 Codestral update: https://mistral.ai/news/codestral-25-08
🔹 Access Veo 3 via Gemini API: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/veo-3-now-available-gemini-api/
🔹 Conversational image segmentation in Gemini 2.5: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/conversational-image-segmentation-gemini-2-5/
🔹 Try segmentation in AI Studio: https://aistudio.google.com/app/apps/bundled/spatial-understanding?showPreview=true&appParams=task%3Dsegmentation-masks.
🔹 Video Overviews in NotebookLM: https://blog.google/technology/google-labs/notebooklm-video-overviews-studio-upgrades/
🔹 Opal platform: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-opal%20
🔹 Win at International Math Olympiad: https://www.heise.de/en/news/OpenAI-and-Google-win-gold-at-the-Math-Olympics-10496839.html%20
🔹 Deep Think in Gemini Ultra: https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-2-5-deep-think/
🔹 AlphaEarth Foundations by DeepMind: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphaearth-foundations-helps-map-our-planet-in-unprecedented-detail/
🔹 Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct
🔹 Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct: https://hf.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct
🔹 Wan2.2 (open-source video MoE): https://github.com/Wan-Video/Wan2.2
🔹 HunyuanWorld-1.0 — 3D world generator: https://github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/HunyuanWorld-1.0
🔹 LeVo: https://github.com/tencent-ailab/songgeneration
🔹 Runway Aleph: https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-aleph
🔹 Classics reimagined by Aleph: https://x.com/blizaine/status/1950203241150530043?s=46&t=dUCVh9akIWxxNUIkrDJwJg
🔹 FUZZ-2.0 by Riffusion: https://producer.ai
🔹 JetBrains Junie updates: https://blog.jetbrains.com/junie/2025/07/the-agentic-ai-era-at-jetbrains-is-here/
🔹 Free Junie request form: https://www.jetbrains.com/junie-github
#theroadtoabundance #gpt5 #genie3