GenAI Studio

Generative AI Studio February 11, 2026 – Replay

This week’s updates span medical AI, frontier model releases, and growing scrutiny around reliability. Google expanded healthcare-focused models, Anthropic introduced Claude Opus 4.6 with detailed safety documentation, and new research highlighted simple prompt techniques that improve reasoning performance. At the same time, reflections on AI governance and a reported Copilot hallucination in a policing context underscored the need for stronger oversight as AI systems become more embedded in real-world workflows.

Generative AI Studio January 7, 2026 – Replay

This week in AI highlighted progress in health-focused and on-device AI models, alongside new tools for evaluating AI behavior. Developments from SleepFM, Liquid AI, and Anthropic pointed to expanding real-world applications and stronger evaluation practices, while reflections on tech careers and writing culture emphasized the growing social impact of AI on work, creativity, and voice.

Generative AI Studio December 17th, 2025 – Yearly Round Up

This week, we held a yearly review to look back on the rapid progression of the Generative AI space, and anticipated developments to arrive in 2026 and beyond.

Generative AI Studio December 10th, 2025 – Replay

This week in AI brought advances in open foundation models, agentic coding tools, and benchmarks for general intelligence. Notable releases from Mistral, OpenAI, and Microsoft highlighted continued momentum toward more capable and openly accessible systems. At the same time, efforts such as ARC-AGI-2, AAIF, and Poetiq’s solver reinforced a growing emphasis on transparent evaluation and reproducible reasoning. In education and real-world use, new AI certification courses and reporting on how people engage with AI tools underscored the expanding role of generative AI in learning, skill development, and everyday interaction.

Generative AI Studio November 26th, 2025 – Replay

This week in AI brought major advancements in conversational intelligence, autonomous coding tools, and model transparency, with notable releases from xAI, Google, Anthropic, Microsoft, and AI2. Community platforms like LMArena and new system-prompt updates from Claude highlight growing emphasis on evaluation and transparency in AI models. In education and productivity, UBC’s Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT) introduced new AI-resilient teaching frameworks, emotion-aware classroom tools, and AI-powered study aids.

Generative AI Studio November 12th, 2025 – Replay

This week in AI brought advances in model introspection, neural network understanding, privacy-preserving compute, and a powerful open-source reasoning model. Highlights include Anthropic’s introspection findings, Meta’s 1,600-language ASR system, Google’s Private AI Compute, Moonshot AI’s open-weights Kimi K2 Thinking model. At UBC, The Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology released new AI-in-assessment guidance and announced workshops supporting AI-enhanced course design and teaching.

Generative AI Studio October 1st, 2025 – Replay

This week in AI highlighted new tools for productivity, video and audio generation, and accessing AI-generated text quality. Microsoft introduced Agent Mode for Office, enabling users to automate complex workflows with step-by-step reasoning. OpenAI’s Sora 2 and ChatGPT Pulse showcase advances in AI-driven media, and personalized daily insights. Researchers also proposed a new framework measuring AI “slop,” helping to identify and improve low-quality AI-generated text.

Generative AI Studio September 17th, 2025 – Replay

This week in AI highlighted student learning with AI, advances in chatbot privacy, and new AI models with increased privacy-protection, and mathematical capabilities. For the tool of the week, we spotlight UBC’s CREATE (Content, Retention, Engagement, Accessible, Teaching Presence, Evaluation) App, developed by UBC students, faculty and staff. The app aims to help instructors create focused learning objectives and transforming them into interactive quizzes, flashcards and gamified questions.

Generative AI Studio September 3rd, 2025 – Replay

This week in our GenAI studio, we explore new ways AI is being trained, the policy challenges shaping its use, its growing concerns over teen safety and more. For the tool of the week, we spotlight Google’s “Nano Banana” image model, a leader in in image editing and generation.

Generative AI Studio August 20th – Replay

Prompt Engineering in 2025. Progressing from basic to better. Principles on getting consistently higher quality results from language models.

Generative AI Studio Aug 6 2025 – Replay

This week in our GenAI studio, we explore the emergence of agentic models, public reaction to AI in governance, and multiple newly released models and tools. For our tool of the week, we try OpenAIs new open source model GPT-OSS, available on Ollama.

Generative AI Studio July 23 2025 – Replay

This week in our GenAI studio, we explore new studies on the parahuman behavior of AI, growing capabilities in patient interactions, hidden risks in AI training data, and recent breakthroughs in mathematical reasoning models. [add info on X]. For our tool of the week, we examine …

Generative AI Studio July 16 2025 – Replay

This week in our GenAI studio, we cover various new model releases including those from xAI and Anthropic. For our tool of the week we examine Claudes newest feature, Claude Artifacts.

Generative AI Studio July 3 2025 – Replay

This week in our GenAI studio, discussions were centered around the MIT study on critical thinking and retention around LLM usage in writing — prompting commentary around the changes it brings to teaching and medicine.

Generative AI Studio June 25 2025 – Replay

This week in our GenAI studio, discussions were centered around the Anthropic court case concerning training models off pirated works. We invited professor Jon Festinger to provide some more context on the potential implications of this ruling.

Generative AI Studio June 18 2025 – Replay

This week in our GenAI studio, discussions covered a deeper look at Apple’s paper and it’s flaws as well as how AI is affecting the teaching spaces. For our tool of the week we revisit ComfyUI.

Generative AI Studio June 11 2025 – Replay

This week in our GenAI studio, discussions covered examined Apple’s newest paper and as well as covering various LLMs trained on public data. We also took a look at OpenAIs newest release and Sam Altmans vision for AI. For our tool of the week we turn to Clara, an open source tool suite.

Generative AI Studio June 4 2025 – Replay

This week in our GenAI studio, discussions covered a look into how AI is developing worldwide with usage in the UK as well as bilingual models emerging in Japan. Conversations were also held about the place AI has in our society. For our tool of the week we turn to Wispr.

Generative AI Studio May 28 2025 – Replay

Using Generative AI Models on Your Own Device. Want to use ChatGPT to help you with a task but know doing so would violate university policy? You still have choices, but knowing how to do so, with best practices, is vital to get decent results.

Generative AI Studio May 21 2025 – Replay

This week in our GenAI studio, discussions covered a look into how AI affecting the medicine and therapy space as well as Microsoft and Googles newest tool suite additions. For our tool of the week we turn to Google’s NotebookLLM.

Generative AI Studio May 14 2025 – Replay

This week in our GenAI studio, discussions covered resources from UBC surrounding AI as well as new developments in both small and large LLMs. For our tool of the week we turn to Zed an AI powered IDE.

Generative AI Studio May 7 2025 – Replay

GenAI Studio: News, Tools, and Teaching & Learning FAQs This week News of the week Tool Showcase FAQs These sixty minute, weekly sessions – facilitated by Technologists and Pedagogy Experts from the CTLT – are designed for faculty and staff at UBC who are using, or thinking about using, Generative AI tools as part of […]

Generative AI Studio April 23 2025 – Replay

Generative AI Studio April 16 2025 – Replay

Generative AI Studio April 9 2025 – Replay

Generative AI Studio April 2 2025 – Replay

Generative AI Studio March 26 2025 – Replay

Privacy and Ethical Considerations around A.I.. How do current university policies intersect with GenAI tools and what considerations should we be making around using such tools?

Generative AI Studio March 19 2025 – Replay

Generative AI Studio March 5 2025 – Replay

Generative AI Studio February 26 2025 – Replay

Redefining our AI Glossary. Somewhat ironically, Language Models have caused a sea-change in some parts of our day-to-day language. We can’t truly feel confident having the conversations we need to have about AI without first ensuring we are all speaking the same language.

Generative AI Studio February 19 2025 – Replay

Generative AI Studio February 12 2025 – Replay

Generative AI Studio January 15 2025 – Replay

Generative AI Studio January 8 2025 – Replay

Generative AI Studio December 18 2024 – Replay

GenAI Studio: News, Tools, and Teaching & Learning FAQs This week Yearly Review FAQs These sixty minute, weekly sessions – facilitated by Technologists and Pedagogy Experts from the CTLT – are designed for faculty and staff at UBC who are using, or thinking about using, Generative AI tools as part of their teaching, researching, or […]