Aug 4, 2025
Here’s a new episode of The Reddy Rundown, crafted so you don’t have to frantically follow everything in the AI news space wondering what you are missing as an exec in 2025 trying to keep up
I’m Shawn Reddy, CEO at AI Advantage Agency. My obsession is wiring dependable systems that let creative ideas land harder and convert faster. Below is my field report on the AI moves that matter, plus the plays we are already testing in-house.
1. Grok Imagine lands inside X
What happened xAI just opened Grok Imagine to premium X users on iOS. Drop a prompt or an image and the tool spits a fifteen-second video with native audio in seconds. Quality still shows the tell-tale AI glaze, but the speed is wild.
Why marketers should care Speed buys test cycles. I can draft a product teaser over lunch and push variants by dinner. Because the videos keep auto-generating as you scroll, we can harvest a dozen hooks without extra prompt work. I plan to feed the best frames straight into our short-form remix pipeline.
2. Google Gemini 2.5 Deep Think goes multi-agent
What happened Gemini now spawns a mini team of specialised agents that hash through a hard question in parallel then vote on the best path. Early scores beat Grok 4 and OpenAI o3 on complex reasoning and code.
Why marketers should care Think of it as rapid strategy mode. Feed it your messy CRM exports and ask for a cross-channel attribution model. The parallel approach surfaces edge cases we usually catch only after a quarter of spend. Ultra-tier access is steep at two-hundred-fifty dollars a month, so this is an analyst-seat tool, not a general licence.
3. Anthropic maps persona drift
What happened Researchers isolated activation patterns they call persona vectors that correlate with unwanted behaviours like sycophancy or hallucination. By dampening those vectors they reduced the bad traits.
Why marketers should care Brand-safety controls will soon sit inside the model, not just in a wrapper. That lowers guardrail maintenance and lets us push conversational assistants closer to the front line without creating compliance nightmares.
How we stretched Veo 3 past eight seconds
Quick play
Create your first eight-second clip in Flow
Save the final frame as an asset
Launch a frames-to-video job starting from that frame and describe the next beat
Stitch the clips inside Flow’s timeline and trim the seam
Repeat for longer narratives. We used this to build a thirty-second launch reel with zero visible jumps.
Tools to test this week
Grok Imagine In-app for X SuperGrok and Premium + - Generate five intro clips for a paid-social campaign, then watch CPC fall as the algorithm finds its favourite hook
Gemini 2.5 Deep Think Gemini Ultra tier - Stress-test budget re-allocation scenarios before your board meeting
Veo 3 Frames to Video Google Flow - Turn one hero shot into a series of clip ads without reshoots
Concierge concierge-ai.com - Pipe Slack conversations into your support bot so replies include real order data
Persona-Vector research Anthropic paper - Future-proof your brand-voice guardrails by monitoring drift patterns
Final thought
The gap between idea and creative asset keeps shrinking. Executives who treat AI as an experiment will chase it forever. Executives who treat it as infrastructure will own the speed advantage. As always, reply with wins or roadblocks and I’ll fold the best lessons into next week’s Rundown.
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