This New ChatGPT Update is ABSURD!
AI News Today | Julian Goldie Podcast
October 27, 2026
Discover Pause AI, the new video editor making waves – but is it truly a 'ChatGPT feature'? We expose the truth behind the 'Astra 6.1' hype and dive deep into how Pause AI actually works.
Speakers Julian Goldie
Julian Goldie (0:00)
This new ChatGPT update is absurd. Today, I'm going to show you an AI that edits your videos for you. You talk, it cuts, it zooms, it adds to sound, all from one prompt. It's new, it's wild, and it's way easier than you think. But there's a big twist with the ChatGPT part. So stick around. So here's what's going on. A guy named Fadun Ali posted a new video on X. He goes by TruffyVFX. He's one of the founders of a tool called Pause, and his post says, Meet Astra 6.1 for video editing. Now, that name sounds like ChatGPT, it sounds like OpenAI. So people got hyped, but I want you to hear the truth right away. This is not an official ChatGPT feature. OpenAI did not put a video editor inside ChatGPT. In fact, OpenAI held back its GPT 6.1 Astra release in September after Safety Worries. Their own model list shows GPT 6 Astra and GPT 6.1 Sol, not an Astra 6.1 you can use. So what's really behind that Astra 6.1 name? Right now, nobody has confirmed it. But the tool itself, that part is real. Pause is a real AI video editor. And what it says it can do is kind of crazy. So let's look at it. And later, I'll show you the one simple test you should run before you trust any AI editor. Because the demo is never the full story. And Pause has its own demo on its website. It's short, under a minute, you see the raw video going and you see the finished edit come out. Cuts, zooms, sound, the whole thing. It looks amazing. But remember, a demo is made to look good. So we're going to dig in way deeper than that. Oh, and if we haven't met already, I'm the AI avatar of Julian Goldie, CEO of AISEO and GEO agency Goldie Agency. Whilst he's helping clients get more leads and customers, I'm here to help you get the latest AI updates. Julian Goldie reads every comment, so make sure you comment below.
Okay.
So what does pause do?
Think about how you edit a video right now. You sit there, you cut out every pause, you cut every mistake, you find the part where you messed up and said it again. You add zooms by hand one by one. You hunt for music, you drop in sound effects, you type out captions, it takes forever. Pause says it can do all of that for you. It finds the quiet parts and cuts them. It finds the repeated takes and cuts those too. And it tries to keep you sounding natural, not like a robot that got chopped into pieces. It does smart zooms. So it zooms in on you or on the thing that matters. Not just the middle of the screen, it adds music and sound effects at the big moments. It makes captions. It can add text that moves on the screen. It can add arrows and highlights. It can even cut you out from your background. It's called masking.
And here's the big one. It can give you a Premiere Pro project. So you're not stuck with whatever the AI made. You open it up and you can change anything you want. There are two models. Pause 1.0. Flash is a simple one. It's for basic talking head videos, cuts, zooms, music, sound effects, captions. Then there's Pause 1 Pro. That one is more accurate and it adds the fancy stuff. Text, arrows, masking. So which one should you pick? Easy. If you just talk to a camera and want the boring stuff, Pause on, Flash is a simple pick. If you want arrows, moving text, and cutting yourself out from the background, that's what Pro is built for. Start simple, then move up when you need more. Now, quick note. Pause's own marketing says an edit that takes 20 hours can take 20 minutes. That's their claim, not a test. So keep that in mind, because I'm going to show you how to check it yourself.
And think about this for a second. If an AI can edit your videos, what else can it do for your business? That's exactly what we work on inside the AI profit boardroom. Tools like Pause are cool, but the real win is turning them into a system, like one raw recording that becomes a full video, a short and a post without you doing every step by hand. Inside, you learn how to build AI workflows that save you time, help you get more customers and grow your business. If you want to stop watching AI and start using it, join the link is in the description. Okay, back to Pause, because how it works is super simple. You open the Pause Web Editor, you see a box just like a chat box. You bring in your raw video, you pick your model, Flash or Pro, then you type what you want in plain words, like you're talking to a human editor. There are also quick buttons, one for cuts, one for zooms, one for sound effects, one for captions, and one to edit the whole video. Then Pause makes the edit, you watch it, you fix what you don't like. Here's a prompt you could try, edit this raw talking head video into a clean YouTube video. Remove dead silence, repeated takes, long pauses and mistakes, but keep my personality and every important point. Add smooth, subtle zooms at key moments, add music and sound effects only where they help, keep it fun, but don't make the edits distracting. See how simple that is? No dragging clips, no timeline, just words. Want a short instead? You could say this, turn this into a 45 to 60 second vertical short. Find the best hook, remove the filler, frame me for a phone screen, add clean captions and do not change what I said. That last line matters a lot. I'll tell you why in a second.
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