Craig Mantin

Instructional Technologist, Educator

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

4) Conversational generation

You've never been able to "talk" to a video model like you chat with an LLM.

That changes with Omni. You can ask it to edit or iterate on a video it generated, or continue a narrative.

This video is two clips - I just asked for "more street interviews" and it knew the context of what it already generated and kept the same style.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

[Wes Roth @WesRoth]

Google Research introduced Learn Your Way, an AI-powered experiment that reimagines textbooks into personalized, multimodal learning experiences.

Built with LearnLM and integrated into Gemini 2.5 Pro, it adapts content to students’ grade level and interests, then generates multiple representations like narrated slides, quizzes, audio lessons, and mind maps.

In a study, students using Learn Your Way scored 11% higher on retention tests than those with standard digital readers.

[Google for Education @GoogleForEdu]

Introducing #Gemini for Education, a version of the @Geminiapp built for you 🫵, the educator! Gemini in Classroom is now free. Plus, find new video overviews in @NotebookLM and quizzes in Gemini. Take a look! 🤠 https://t.co/bbmU8wIAHj #ISTELive2025/#ASCDAnnual25

[Craig Mantin @cmantin]

Video Overviews in NotebookLM example. Lots of potential in teaching and learning.
https://t.co/tgL8OtNUBo

[NotebookLM @NotebookLM]

IT 👏 KEEPS 👏 GOING 👏

In case you missed this year's #GoogleIO keynote, we made a notebook summarizing everything here: https://t.co/4B9cVkqi5H

AND, given how much you guys are loving video overviews (coming soon!), we made one for this year's consumer keynote announcements.

[Google Gemini @GeminiApp]

📣 It’s here: ask Gemini about anything you see. Share your screen or camera in Gemini Live to brainstorm, troubleshoot, and more.

Rolling out to Pixel 9 and Samsung Galaxy S25 devices today and available for all Advanced users on @Android in the Gemini app: https://t.co/dfYShWraii

See how the team has been using it:

[Craig Mantin @cmantin]

@iruletheworldmo Thanks, I would be very interested

[Jimmy Apples 🍎/acc @apples_jimmy]

General thoughts

o3 mini- it’s a good model! I’m excited for o3 pro tho.

Why no canvas support?

Where’s desktop screen sharing ? Does anyone use their mobile for vision, if so, for what ?

4o is well behind on creative writing and general vibes. Even with the last update.

[Craig Mantin @cmantin]

@kimmonismus Looking forward to working with AVM with Vision in the education space as we move towards a more personalized learning model.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

🌐 Introducing ChatGPT search 🌐

ChatGPT can now search the web in a much better way than before so you get fast, timely answers with links to relevant web sources.

https://t.co/7yilNgqH9T

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

More evidence that a well prompted LLM can help learning from a randomized controlled trial at Harvard: “here we show that students learn more than twice as much in less time with an AI tutor compared to an active learning classroom, while also being more engaged and motivated.”

[Raiza Martin @raizamrtn]

New NotebookLM updates, rolling out today:

🎧Pass a note to the hosts – you can now click on ‘Customize’ in Audio Overviews to give additional instructions, such as focusing on a specific topic, source, or even adjusting the audience it’s optimized for.

🎧You can now minimize Notebook Guide and use the chat or other features, and Audio Overviews will keep playing in the background.

💼Over 80,000+ organizations are already using NotebookLM. Today we’re announcing NotebookLM Business: an upcoming version that will be offered via Google Workspace with enhanced features for businesses, universities and organizations. You can apply for the NotebookLM Business pilot program to get early access.

🚀With now millions of users, achieving quality and product milestones, today we’re dropping the product’s “Experimental” label. An exciting milestone - what a wild ride!

@ me with your best customizations – y’all are way more creative than me 😆

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

We're rolling out interactive tables and charts along with the ability to add files directly from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive into ChatGPT. Available to ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Enterprise users over the coming weeks. https://t.co/Fu2bgMChXt

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Control-V is the RAG solution most organizations should start with.

If humans pasting in the context they know they need won’t get the LLM to produce high quality results appropriate for their use case, a fully automated pipeline is unlikely to make it better.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Realtime translation with GPT-4o

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Point and learn Spanish with GPT-4o

[Greg Brockman @gdb]

GPT-4o for education:

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

“Coding” was never the source of value, and people shouldn’t get overly attached to it. Problem solving is the core skill. The discipline and precision demanded by traditional programming will remain valuable transferable attributes, but they won’t be a barrier to entry.

Many times over the years I have thought about a great programmer I knew that loved assembly language to the point of not wanting to move to C. I have to fight some similar feelings of my own around using existing massive codebases and inefficient languages, but I push through.

I had somewhat resigned myself to the fact that I might be missing out on the “final abstraction”, where you realize that managing people is more powerful than any personal tool. I just don’t like it, and I can live with the limitations that puts on me.

I suspect that I will enjoy managing AIs more, even if they wind up being better programmers than I am.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Depressingly, a debunked theory is believed by the vast majority of teachers. The belief in Learning Styles (that some people are auditory learners, visual learners, etc) is not only wrong, it can hurt. But the research shows that when teachers learn why, they change. So, a 🧵1/