OpenAI's Releases "Intelligent UI" and Anthropic's New Model
Let Freedom: AI & Business News
October 8, 2026
In this episode, we explore OpenAI's release of an intelligent user interface, along with Anthropic's new 5.5 Haiku model. Additionally, we discuss Microsoft’s innovative hardware project Manus, which has successfully raised $500 million dollars. Show Links Get the top 80+ AI Models for $8.
Speakers Jayden Schaefer
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Jayden Schaefer (0:00)
If you want to get access to this episode and my next 30 episodes all ad free, so there'll be no ads on them, go check out my podcast, AI Chat. You can go search for that on Spotify or Apple. It's AI Chat. I'm gonna post all of these news episodes, and I'm also posting interviews, like I just interviewed the CEO of Cohere. They've raised over a billion dollars for their AI model, talking about what they're gonna be spending the money on and the direction of the AI industry, along with all of this new stuff. So if you wanna go check it out with no ads for free, it is AI Chat. Welcome to the podcast today. I apologize, it's been a week since I have recorded an episode, and that is because I have probably got the bubonic plague from Russia. Probably not, but some horrible cold. So we're on the upswing right now. We're getting back into it, and we have an awesome lineup today. The first thing is that OpenAI has added something called Intelligent UI to GPT-6. This is actually very useful, and they have a great demo for this. So we'll be getting into that. If you're following along on Apple Podcasts, you'll be able to see the video for that or on YouTube or wherever else. We also are going to be talking about Anthropix Clawed 5.5 model that just dropped. Specifically, that is going to be their Haiku 5.5.
Then we have Microsoft that has just released a new NVIDIA chip AI PC. This is going to be in the new revamped Windows 11 And I think there's a lot of exciting stuff happening in hardware. Speaking of hardware, there's a company called that the former CEO or founder of Cal AI just raised $10 million for his 19 years old. We'll get into that. We also have Manus who just raised over $500 million. This is their first funding round since they got split up with Metta. I have some probably controversial takes on that whole situation. And then Vesta has just raised $30 million to help with use AI for mortgage lenders using agents. There's also controversial takes on that. So we're going to get into all of it today. Before we do, I wanted to mention that AI Box has just revamped our Playground feature. If you've used AI Box in the past, that's my own startup. We've just added a whole bunch of new features to our Playground where you're able to do a handful of different things. If you've listened for a while, you know that we have something called the AI Box Builder. That's kind of where you link together different AI models to build tools. And they have something called the Playground where you can talk to a handful of different AI models, over 100 of them, and you can compare them side by side. We have rebuilt the entire Playground from the ground up. You can do a couple of cool things. One is in the Playground. We basically just have one chat interface and you can talk to that. That chat interface can go and build tools. You can also reference tools you've already built. We call them boxes, but you could say, hey, I built a box that helps me to, you know, generate podcast scripts for XYZ thing. Go use that. It will go find whatever box you built and it will be able to use that inside of AI Box. You can also say, hey, I want to, you can add favorite models and I think you can add groups as well. That's a new feature we just added. So you can, what I've done basically is I've made a group with chat, GPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok. And anytime I ask a question, instead of just going to one of them, I ask it to the whole group and it generates a response from all four at once. In the past, we had the ability to compare the results side by side, but you had to basically regenerate one question at a time, which was slow. So now you can make a group and you just ask your question to the group and you can pick the best response. You can kind of see some of the differences between all of them. So if you want to go check out the brand new launch of AI Box and all of the new features in the playground and the builder and a lot more exciting stuff coming soon, go check out AI box.ai. I'll leave a link in the description. It's only $8.99 a month to get started, so it's super cheap. You get access to over 100 AI models, you get image, audio, video. If you want to try making really cool videos, if you want to try making amazing images with a bunch of different image generators, go check it out. It's the best way, I think, to try all of the AI models and get the best responses and find out where there's any gaps or holes in an AI model that you might be using. You know, Claude is awesome, doesn't generate images, so you get access to all of that on here.
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