In 1956, ten researchers at Dartmouth College promised to build a thinking machine in two months. Seventy years later, ChatGPT hit 100 million users faster than any product in history, DeepSeek wiped half a trillion dollars off Nvidia in a single day, and autonomous AI agents started booking flights, filing taxes, and writing code. This episode is the complete story of how we got here.

Alex Smith, founder of Instant AI and host of Super Confident AI, walks through the full history of artificial intelligence from Alan Turing's 1950 paper to the transformer architecture that changed everything, OpenAI's scaling bet, the DeepSeek shock, and the agent era of 2026. He explains why the "AI is a fad" argument collapses under seven decades of math and trillions in infrastructure. If you use AI tools daily but never understood the story behind them, this is your episode.

Chapters:

(00:00) Introduction

(00:54) The Dartmouth Promise: Two Months

(02:11) AlexNet

(03:50) ChatGPT Goes Public

(05:52) 2025: AI Starts Reasoning

(06:36) The Agent Era Arrives

(07:04) Still Early Innings

(07:34) The Super Confident Take

Ten men in 1956 said two months. It took 70 years. Which moment in AI history surprised you the most? Comment below.

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The US government used export controls to shut down Anthropic's Mythos and Fable 5 AI models in under 90 minutes, marking the first time federal authority targeted a live AI model instead of hardware.

Alex Smith, founder of Instant AI and host of Super Confident AI, walks through exactly how Amazon reportedly found a jailbreak in its own partner's model and took it to the Commerce Department instead of Anthropic. He explains export controls in plain English, breaks down why foreign nationals inside the US were affected, and covers the chilling effect this precedent creates for AI transparency across the industry. Essential viewing for anyone tracking artificial intelligence news, AI regulation, and the future of AI access.

Chapters:

(00:00) Introduction

(01:15) Anthropic Launches Mythos and Fable

(03:19) The Jailbreak That Triggered It

(03:46) Amazon's Role as the Informant

(05:24) How This Hits Regular Users

(07:11) A Brand New Precedent

(08:57) Innovation Versus Control

(09:43) Who Actually Controls Frontier AI?

The government shut off the most powerful public AI in 90 minutes. Drop a comment: national security or competitive sabotage?

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My name is Alex Smith. I am the founder of My Instant AI, one of the fastest growing AI companies in the world, selling prepaid AI access cards in retail stores across more than 150 countries. In this show, I lay out why my weekly conversations with frontier lab researchers, infrastructure operators, and policy makers reveal a version of AI that the headlines are not giving you. I make the case that most people are still treating AI as optional while the window to understand what is coming is closing fast. If you want to stay ahead of artificial intelligence news and understand the future of AI before it arrives, this is the show.

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