Ethan B. Holland

Today I had a blast sharing my new and improved slide deck “AI Trends and Fun Demos” with the team at Burris Logistics in Milford, DE.

I’ve added tons of graphics and links, and the slides now comprise a full year of artificial intelligence. 262 slides!

Burris Logistics has a special place in my heart. I grew up in Milford. I worked in the Burris Logistics frozen food warehouse.

And most importantly, Jack Burris was like a second father to my dad.

My dad came from a modest Milford family and modeled his entire adult life after the standard of Jack Burris: manners, family, professionalism, integrity.

“When I die, I know I’m in the right place if I see Jack Burris” –Randy Holland

I’m excited to share this fresh 262 slide presentation with anyone who wants to be up to speed with artificial intelligence.

Here are the slides and below are all of the links I shared, in order…

Download the presentation (.key, .ppt, .pdf):
Google Drive folder with Keynote (original), PowerPoint, and PDF versions

Links in the order they appear:

Introduction
AI Mid-Term Outlook: Ethan Holland Presentation at the National Association of Broadcasters – Sept 20, 2023 – Ethan B. Holland
https://ethanbholland.com/2023/09/20/hello-world/

This Week In AI Archives – Ethan B. Holland
https://ethanbholland.com/category/this-week-in-ai/

HeyGen Demo 2024 05 12 – Speaking many languages, script to video clone – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_FOE5kxUTE

Usage and Milstones
METR Benchmarks
https://metr.org/

Personal Superintelligence
https://www.meta.com/superintelligence/

Open-weight models lag state-of-the-art by around 3 months on average
https://epoch.ai/data-insights/open-weights-vs-closed-weights-models

Epoch Capabilities Index | Epoch AI
https://epoch.ai/benchmarks/eci

Generative AI: Images
Kicking the tires on GPT-4o’s image in-painting – Ethan B. Holland
https://ethanbholland.com/2025/03/26/kicking-the-tires-on-gpt-4os-image-in-painting/

Bilawal Sidhu on X: “Okay coolest Adobe Sneaks of the year award goes to Project Light Touch. Adobe calls this “spatial lighting mode” — interactively move your light source around within a 3D volume and voila — your image is accurately relit. They’re probably using ML to infer a PBR + depth map https://t.co/jYjMrv3SKE” / X
https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1983982560054296843?s=20

Nano Banana Pro – Gemini AI image generator & photo editor
https://gemini.google/overview/image-generation/

Gemini 3: Introducing the latest Gemini AI model from Google
https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/gemini/gemini-3/

Generative AI: Video
Prompt Theory (Made with Veo 3) – AI-generated characters refuse to believe they were AI-generated – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buKJQBExUy8

cutting a glass apple #asmr #ai #veo3 – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHYntEgWClc

Ethan Mollick on X: “”April 1805, Napoleon is now master of Europe. Oceans are now battlefields. Ducks are now boats” https://t.co/QjwqPLo95V” / X
https://x.com/emollick/status/1976855737289916922

LLMs could be doing gradient descent at inference – Andrej Karpathy – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyKxC5B6GKk

NEW Runway ACT-TWO AI Lets You Transfer Gestures & Dialogue From a Video to Anything Else – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUNeSYd5v5s

Introducing Runway Aleph | A new way to edit, transform and generate video. – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUHx-2uz_qI

Runway on X: “Aleph is now available via the Runway API, allowing you to bring an entirely to way to edit, transform and generate videos directly into your apps, products, platforms and websites. Learn more and get started at the link below. https://t.co/iFqzZEJeZ8” / X
https://x.com/runwayml/status/1951345545483579704

Runway on X: “We have completed rollout of access to Runway Aleph for 100% of all our paid plans. Aleph is a completely new way of creating, editing, transforming and generating video. To learn more about best practices for prompting, see the link below. https://t.co/Axtn9OJ0Jw” / X
https://x.com/runwayml/status/1950903868499337578

Epoch AI on X: “Sora 2 can solve questions from LLM benchmarks, despite being a video model. We tested Sora 2 on a small subset of GPQA questions, and it scored 55%, compared to GPT-5’s score of 72%. https://t.co/BATVA5A8lM” / X
https://x.com/EpochAIResearch/status/1974172794012459296

Video models are zero-shot learners and reasoners
https://video-zero-shot.github.io/

Multimodal AI
VideoPrism: A foundational visual encoder for video understanding
https://research.google/blog/videoprism-a-foundational-visual-encoder-for-video-understanding/

DINOv3
https://ai.meta.com/research/dinov3/

Introducing Meta Segment Anything Model 3 (SAM 3): Unified Detection, Segmentation & Tracking – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4OLPDjwncw

Introducing Meta Segment Anything Model 3 and Segment Anything Playground
https://ai.meta.com/blog/segment-anything-model-3/

Introducing SAM 3D: Powerful 3D Reconstruction for Physical World Images
https://ai.meta.com/blog/sam-3d/

Open-Vocabulary Image Segmentation | Moondream
https://moondream.ai/skills/segment

Introducing SAM Audio: The First Unified Multimodal Model for Audio Separation | AI at Meta – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPj_cQL_wvg

SAM Audio
https://ai.meta.com/research/samaudio/

Depth Anything 3: Recovering the Visual Space from Any Views
https://depth-anything-3.github.io/

Molmo 2 | A new standard for open video intelligence – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf0ZzQqKYTo

Meta Quest Now Lets You Walk & 3D Scan the World Using Gaussian Splatting – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jbO6f2J0qCg

Burris Logistics Study Guide – Google NotebookLM
https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/5c6fbc0f-d5a6-4360-b21e-a52647518c13

Agents
Interactive Correlation vs Causation Guide | Claude
https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/5e9ad491-a9e3-4f5f-a290-8130d2c25733

Correlation vs Causation: Interactive Guide for Beginners | Claude
https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/71eb192e-245d-45b0-aa80-3a0e76fd18a9

Let Claude handle work in your browser – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBJnWMD0Pho

Robotics and Simulations
Scaling Helix – Laundry – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOoRnv3lA0k

Jim Fan on X: “We trained a robot dog to balance and walk on top of a yoga ball purely in simulation, and then transfer zero-shot to the real world. No fine-tuning. Just works. I’m excited to announce DrEureka, an LLM agent that writes code to train robot skills in simulation, and writes more https://t.co/kuG14LmSOh” / X
https://x.com/DrJimFan/status/1786429467537088741

🕺🤖Figure Robot’s new walking controller: Stable, reliable, and walking blind! #humanoid #figure – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/D-6wwzK9ccw

Marble: A Multimodal World Model | World Labs
https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/marble-world-model

SIMA 2: A Gemini-Powered AI Agent for 3D Virtual Worlds — Google DeepMind
https://deepmind.google/blog/sima-2-an-agent-that-plays-reasons-and-learns-with-you-in-virtual-3d-worlds/

60 Minutes of Non-Stop Robotic Package Sorting (Relaxing ASMR Warehouse Sounds) – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrMdyLriuaU

Closing Remarks
OpenAI Evals
https://evals.openai.com/gdpval/leaderboard

Ethan B. Holland – Emerging tech, thoughts, and photography
https://ethanbholland.com/