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This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle News and Updates Live Stream’
First aired: 5 December 2025
Summary: Open Router just dropped a fascinating meta-analysis of 100 trillion tokens, and the results are properly wild. Turns out 52% of AI usage is for creative roleplay and companionship apps. Yes, that includes romantic chatbots and not-safe-for-work stuff. This is the side of AI we don't really talk about in our space—whilst I'm here banging on about productivity and business applications, half the market is having digital companions and writing elaborate fantasy scenarios. Character AI, Janitor AI, Spicy Chat—they're all sitting there in the top consumer apps list alongside ChatGPT and Claude. It's actually mad when you think about it.
In other news, Claude Code has officially killed off the "you are absolutely right" meme. Someone built an entire tracker called Absolutely Right LLL just to measure how often Claude would say it, and since Opus 4.5 dropped, it's flatlined. Bit sad really—I wanted to get a mug made. Also, I'm relaunching my free community for anyone interested in learning how to use AI without feeling overwhelmed. We've got 3000 members already, and I'm adding courses, playbooks, and a five-day AI readiness challenge. No fluff, just trying to help people figure out what on earth to do with all this.
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0:00 Anthropic Dominates AI Coding Market with 60% Share
0:16 Welcome & Free AI Community Announcement
1:03 AI News Roundup: What's Coming Next Week
1:22 Claude's "You Are Absolutely Right" Meme is Dead
2:37 Open Router's 100 Trillion Token Study Reveals AI Usage
3:41 52% of AI Usage is Roleplay & Companionship
4:24 Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps: Who's Winning
6:06 The Hidden AI Companionship Market Nobody Talks About
6:18 DeepSeek's Open Source Dominance is Declining
8:10 Why Anthropic Controls 60% of AI Coding
9:07 Live Q&A: Stream Quality Check
10:00 OpenAI Code Red: Gemini is Winning
11:21 Google Releases Gemini 3 Deep Think Mode
14:27 ChatGPT vs Gemini vs Claude: Which Should You Use?
14:40 Anthropic's New AI Interviewer Survey Tool
16:13 Cristiano Ronaldo Invests in Perplexity AI
17:37 Exploring Perplexity's Wild Ronaldo Fan Page
18:34 Q&A: Gemini's Random Language Switching Bug
19:18 Best AI Communities to Join in 2025
19:45 Sabrina's Discord for Female AI Entrepreneurs
20:13 DeepLearning.AI Community for Technical Learning
21:02 Learn AI Together: 90K Member Discord
21:35 Marin's 21-Day AI Builder Challenge (Paid)
22:27 Relaunching My Free AI Community
23:40 Free Courses, Playbooks & 5-Day AI Challenge
24:34 Final Q&A Session
25:29 Newsletter, Community & Wrap-Up
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