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Podcast: This Day in AI Podcast
Episode: Gemini 3 Flash, GPT-Image-1.5, Skills vs MCPs, and Our 2025 Model Reviews - EP99.29
Description: The Gift of Simtheory: https://simtheory.ai---2025 Model Timeline: https://simulationtheory.ai/5fd0e964-4c41-4f9a-bbb3-2a398d8500f0It's the long-anticipated holiday special... except Mike and Kris forgot to prepare so it's just a normal episode. 🎅 This week: Gemini 3 Flash drops and it's actually incredible - cheap, fast, and weirdly smarter than Gemini 3 Pro at tool calling. We put GPT Image 1.5 head-to-head against Nano Banana Pro using hobo photos (spoiler: Google wins again). Plus, FireCrawl Agent is the research tool we've been waiting for, Anthropic launches Skills as an ope...