#255 - Gemini 3.7, Jalapeño, Qwen 3.8, Drones

**Andrey Kurenkov** (0:11)
Hello, and welcome to the Last Week in AI podcast, where you can hear a chat about what's going on with AI. As usual, in this episode, you will summarize and discuss some of last week's most interesting AI news. As somewhat usual, we'll be also including a bit of news beyond the last week since we are catching up.
I'm one of your regular hosts, Andrey Kurenkov. I studied AI in grad school and now work at the startup Astrocade.

**Jeremie Harris** (0:37)
And I'm your other regular co-host, Jeremie. Yeah, Gladstone AI, national security stuff.
Soon to be doing a series of more public work around investigating the AI end game and national security and lab and infrastructure side of it. But yeah, and I apologize. The absence last week was on me. We had our big family green card activation trip. And so anyway, traveling with a baby to LA for some work stuff and some pleasure stuff. So there was a lot going on. Things got hairy there. So I appreciate everyone's patience. We should be more settled. I was just telling Andrey, I've got one more trip coming up the week of September 17th. So there may be a hiccup there. Andrey may be able to get a co-host for that. But just to kind of put that on everybody's radar, things should be settling in more now that all the green card insanity, and it is insanity, is over. Yeah, looking forward to the next phase of the story.

**Andrey Kurenkov** (1:30)
Yeah, it's a bit of a process with these things. And as you said, travel can be tricky. Luckily, we didn't miss too much. Missing last week relative to before, things kind of settled down a little bit since our last episode. So nothing too crazy to cover. This quick preview of this episode, we'll be catching up a little bit. There have been some new models and tool updates to mention, but nothing too big. We will be discussing things like Gemini 3.7 and Grok 4.6, some new model releases, but nothing sort of earth-shattering.
Applications and business, again, nothing like huge, some interesting developments and some slightly more nuanced things that if you're following the industry, it will be interesting. Policy and safety, once again, will be the big section and we'll have a real mix of stuff there. We'll be talking about drones, which we haven't touched on in quite a while. The security updates from OpenAI and their proposed or supposed slowdown of model developments, which I think is probably the most interesting development and beyond that, just a real variety of stuff. And we will try to get to some research as well by then. So it should be a pretty good mix episode. This episode is brought to you by Outshift, Cisco's incubation engine. Today's AI engines operate in silos, limiting their true potential. We focused on building bigger, smarter models, but scaling up is just one approach. To reach super intelligence together, we need to do more. We need to scale out. And we actually have a blueprint from 70,000 years ago. Humanism didn't just get smarter individually. The cognitive revolution transforms society because we began sharing knowledge, goals, and innovation. Agents are now at the same inflection point. They can connect, but they can't think together. That's why Outshift by Cisco is building the Internet of Cognition, transforming AI from isolated systems into orchestrated super intelligence by creating open, interoperable infrastructure. Outshift is enabling agents and humans to share intent, context, and reasoning. The cognitive evolution for agents is here. Explore Internet of Cognition at outshift.com. That's outshift.com.
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