The Era of AI Mass Intelligence Arrives

In this episode of The AI Daily Brief, NLW reflects on the summer's AI developments and introduces the concept of "mass intelligence" by discussing a piece from Ethan Mollick's blog, One Useful Thing. The episode highlights the democratization of access to powerful AI models due to reduced costs and increased efficiency, using GPT-5 and Google's NanoBanana as examples. NLW argues that the focus should shift from simply evaluating how much better new models are compared to their predecessors, to understanding how they unlock new use cases and change the cost of implementation at scale. He also touches on the multimodal innovation happening beyond text-based applications and introduces the idea of an "Unlock Score" to measure the comparative change a new model brings. The episode concludes by emphasizing the importance of understanding the evolving landscape of AI and its impact on various sectors.