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AI With Kyle – Daily AI News With Zero Hype, Zero BS
AI With Kyle is the daily podcast for people who want to understand artificial intelligence without hype, without jargon, and without getting lost in marketing nonsense. Every day, Kyle breaks down the biggest AI news, model releases, research updates, leaks, lawsuits, policy moves, and industry shifts - fast, clear, and brutally honest.
If you’re tired of exaggerated claims, clickbait headlines, or breathless “AGI tomorrow” predictions, this show gives you what actually matters in AI right now.
Every episode covers:
-Major AI model releases and upgrades (OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Meta, xAI, Mistral)
-Real benchmarks, real performance, and how new models actually behave
-The business story behind AI: funding rounds, strategy changes, earnings, and power plays
-Research explained plainly - world models, multimodality, reinforcement learning, generative video, synthetic data
-Practical impacts for creators, entrepreneurs, and businesses
-Regulation, AI safety, copyright cases, and everything changing the landscape
-Tech industry shifts happening under the surface
This show is perfect for:
-Founders and entrepreneurs
-Creators and educators
-Business leaders following AI strategy
-Anyone who wants signal, not noise
What you get here:
-Straight explanations
-Clear context
-No hype
-No fluffy futurism
-Just the important stuff
AI changes daily. This podcast helps you keep up - not by guessing about the future, but by understanding the present.
Subscribe if you want calm, honest, daily AI coverage you can actually trust.
099: Today in AI: Flux Two Rivals Imagen at 1/5th Cost, Open Source vs Closed, Running Models Locally
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099: Today in AI: Flux Two Rivals Imagen at 1/5th Cost, Open Source vs Closed, Running Models Locally
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This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle News and Updates Live Stream’
First aired: 27 November 2025
Summary: Relatively slow news day today, so I decided to dive into Flux Two, the new open source image generation model from Black Forest Labs. It's genuinely impressive — almost as good as Google's Imagen (or "Nano Banana Pro" as I keep calling it), but here's the kicker: it costs about 3 cents per image versus Imagen's 15 cents. That's five times cheaper for nearly the same quality. Flux One was brilliant at generating images almost instantaneously, and Flux Two keeps that speed whilst matching the big boys on quality. It's the kind of thing that actually matters if you're building applications or doing proper design work, not just making party tricks. Off the back of that, I went into what open source actually means because there's a lot of confusion out there. People think open source equals free and closed source equals paid, but it's more nuanced than that. The Chinese labs are pushing hard on open source whilst American companies are closing everything down, and I reckon both approaches will stick around. I showed everyone how to run models locally on their computers or phones using tools like LM Studio and Hugging Face — it's worth trying just to see how it works. Not suggesting you should train your own models from scratch (please don't, the computational requirements are mad), but fine-tuning and deploying existing ones is genuinely accessible now.
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00:00 Intro
00:10 Today's AI News: Flux 2 & Open Source Deep Dive
01:05 Flux 2 From Black Forest Labs Announcement
02:21 Flux 2 vs Nano Banana Pro: Pricing Comparison
03:13 ELO Benchmarks: Is Flux 2 Worth It?
03:48 Why Sora 2 Is Just a Party Trick
05:19 Live Demo: Testing Flux 2 Image Generation
07:10 Testing Text and Typography in Flux 2
08:49 Flux 2 Quality Assessment
09:17 Why Open Source AI Matters
10:26 How to Access Flux 2: GitHub & Hugging Face
11:26 Open Source vs Closed Source AI Explained
12:00 Emre: AI Security Tool for Vibe Coders
14:50 Deep Dive: Open vs Closed Source Models
16:39 How Cursor Built $30B From Open Source VS Code
18:06 The Cathedral and the Bazaar Philosophy
19:05 Chinese AI Labs Dominate Open Source
20:04 Meta Abandons Open Source Llama Models
20:54 Run AI Locally: iPhone, Android, Mac Apps
22:56 Inference vs Training Your Own Model
23:20 Training AI: Hardware Requirements & Costs
26:35 GPU Rental Pricing: H200 Costs Explained
28:36 xAI Colossus: $15 Billion in GPUs
29:28 Europe vs China: Who Wins the AI Race?
29:59 Google DeepMind Acquisition for $400M
32:04 How to Start Building AI Apps
34:34 Building AI Agents with N8N
35:40 Can You Get OpenAI 4o Open Source?
37:43 Using Claude Code Inside Cursor
38:20 Shoutout: Diona Hodges
38:46 Wrap Up & Key Takeaways
40:10 Subscribe & Newsletter
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AI with Kyle
AI With Kyle – Daily AI News With Zero Hype, Zero BS
AI With Kyle is the daily podcast for people who want to understand artificial intelligence without hype, without jargon, and without getting lost in marketing nonsense. Every day, Kyle breaks down the biggest AI news, model releases, research updates, leaks, lawsuits, policy moves, and industry shifts - fast, clear, and brutally honest.
If you’re tired of exaggerated claims, clickbait headlines, or breathless “AGI tomorrow” predictions, this show gives you what actually matters in AI right now.
Every episode covers:
-Major AI model releases and upgrades (OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Meta, xAI, Mistral)
-Real benchmarks, real performance, and how new models actually behave
-The business story behind AI: funding rounds, strategy changes, earnings, and power plays
-Research explained plainly - world models, multimodality, reinforcement learning, generative video, synthetic data
-Practical impacts for creators, entrepreneurs, and businesses
-Regulation, AI safety, copyright cases, and everything changing the landscape
-Tech industry shifts happening under the surface
This show is perfect for:
-Founders and entrepreneurs
-Creators and educators
-Business leaders following AI strategy
-Anyone who wants signal, not noise
What you get here:
-Straight explanations
-Clear context
-No hype
-No fluffy futurism
-Just the important stuff
AI changes daily. This podcast helps you keep up - not by guessing about the future, but by understanding the present.
Subscribe if you want calm, honest, daily AI coverage you can actually trust.
