It’s been a travel-heavy hiatus—Mark’s been living in Spain and Shashank’s been bouncing across Asia (including a month in China)—but they’re back to unpack a packed week of AI news. They start with the headline hardware story: the Groq (GROQ) deal/partnership dynamics and why ultra-fast inference is becoming the next battleground, plus how this could reshape access to cutting-edge serving across the ecosystem. From there, they pivot to NVIDIA’s CES announcements and what “Vera Rubin” implies for data center upgrades, cost-per-token curves, and the messy real-world math of rolling hardware generations. Shashank then brings the future to life with on-the-ground stories from China: a Huawei “everything store” that feels like an Apple Store meets a luxury dealership, folding devices that look straight out of sci-fi, and a parade of robots—from coffee bots to delivery robots that can ride elevators and deliver to your hotel room. They also touch on companion-style consumer robots and why “cute” might be a serious product strategy. Finally, Mark announces the launch of Novacut, a long-form AI video editor built to turn hours of travel footage into a coherent vlog draft—plus export workflows for Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, and Final Cut. They close by talking about the 2026 shift from single model calls to “agentic” systems, including a fun (and slightly alarming) lesson from LLM outcome bias using poker hand reviews. Topics include: Groq inference, NVIDIA + CES, Vera Rubin GPUs, GPU depreciation math, China robotics, Huawei ecosystem, hotel delivery bots, companion robots, Novacut launch, Cursor vs agent workflows, and why agents still struggle with sparse feedback loops. Link mentioned: Novacut — https://novacut.ai

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In this episode of the Generative AI Meetup Podcast, Mark (in Ohio) and Shashank (in India) finally sit down after a month of travel to unpack a very eventful stretch in AI. They dive into Google’s new Gemini 3 Pro, its standout scores on Humanity’s Last Exam and ARC-AGI, and why these reasoning benchmarks matter more than yet another near-perfect standardized test score. Mark also makes a public feature request to DeepMind: please increase Gemini’s max output tokens.

From there they get hands-on with the developer experience:

• Google’s new Anti-Gravity coding IDE (and how it compares to Cursor)

• Using GPT-5.1 Codex High in Cursor’s autonomous “plan mode”

• Why long context and long output windows are critical for deep research and book-length projects

The conversation then shifts to the bigger picture:

• LLMs as therapists, sycophancy, safety, and the danger of AI always agreeing with you

• Mark’s rant on robotics, humanoid robots, and a coming age of extreme abundance where robots handle most physical and intellectual work

• Why learning to code may become the mental equivalent of going to the gym—a “brain gym” in a world where AI can do most practical tasks

They also cover the latest AI industry drama and milestones:

• Yann LeCun leaving Meta, what that might signal about Big Tech AI labs, and how godfathers like Hinton, LeCun, and Bengio see the road to AGI

• DeepMind’s new game-playing agent and why world models in 3D environments matter for real-world robotics

• Genspark hitting unicorn status and what it means for “ChatGPT wrapper” startups

• Co-inventing a new term on air: a “narwhal” = a trillion-dollar private company

If you’re curious about where frontier models, coding agents, robotics, and AGI trajectories all intersect—plus some philosophical musing on jobs, meaning, and abundance—this episode is for you.

From a tiny island in Seychelles to the heartland of Ohio, we unpack a wild week in AI. First up: 1X’s “Neo” humanoid—$20k to buy or $500/month to rent—promising laundry, dishes, and errands soon…with a lot of teleoperation today. We debate whether tele-ops is a feature (not a bug), who it employs, and how quickly autonomy could follow. Then we zoom out to the money: Nvidia touches a $5T valuation, OpenAI reportedly eyes a $1T IPO, and the industry’s circular funding loops raise both eyebrows and opportunity. We also test-drive OpenAI’s Atlas browser (a Chromium fork with action-taking ambitions), and dig into Cursor’s agentic coding push, new in-house model, and blistering growth—plus the eternal “moat vs. momentum” question. Along the way: a live Neo preorder, enterprise ROI reality checks, and why agents may turn devs into project managers. If you’re curious where robotics, chips, and agentic software collide, this one’s for you. Ask a question on our

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Mark's Travel Vlog: https://www.youtube.com/@kumajourney11

Mark's Personal Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@markkuczmarski896

Attend a live event: https://genaimeetup.com/

Shashank Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shashu10/