Welcome, humans.

We’re LIVE right now (click to join!) talking all things Skills vs Agents vs GPTs vs Projects vs Gems vs Plugins… yooou naaaame it, we’re going to try to explaaain it.

See, AI has given us a new kind of productivity problem: five, six, maybe even seven different ways to customize our work with agents, three different words for “workflow,” and one very reasonable question: Which one am I actually supposed to use, when?

Today on Neuron LIVE, we’re sorting the whole mess: AI Skills, Projects, Gems, Custom GPTs, Agents, plugins, and maybe even “loops,” because apparently the AI industry looked at “agents” and thought, “Could use one more term.”

The goal is simple: by the end, you should know when to organize work, when to customize an assistant, when to save a reusable workflow, and when to let an AI system actually go do something.

This is basically the guide we wish existed before every AI lab dumped all these confusing terms on us.

What we’re testing live, on stream:

• Projects (ChatGPT, Claude): when you need a place to organize ongoing work, context, files, instructions, and repeat tasks.

• Gems & Custom GPTs (Gemini Gems, Custom GPTs): when you want a reusable custom assistant for a specific job.

• Skills (OpenAI, Codex, Claude, Gemini ADK): when you want repeatable instructions, workflows, references, scripts, and process memory the AI can load when needed.

• Agents (ChatGPT Agent, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Code agents, Google ADK): when you want AI to take actions on your behalf autonomously towards a goal.

• Plugins (Codex plugins, ChatGPT Apps SDK, Claude plugins, Google ADK plugins): because yes, those are somehow back in the conversation too.

• Loops (Addy Osmani’s loop engineering post, Claude dynamic workflows, Google ADK loop workflows): if we have time, we’ll touch the trendiest topic in AI discourse without making everyone pretend they already know what it means.

Watch live here: YouTube Live | LinkedIn Live

P.S. Timestamps will be added to the video after the stream, so if you can’t make it live, bookmark the YouTube page and check back tomorrow (might take a bit longer than 24 hours; we’re a small team! have grace!). Then, you’ll be able to jump straight to the parts you care about.

📬 Full writeup on the website to follow

Not free right now? We’ve got you. We’ll eventually publish the full breakdown to our website: the cleanest definitions, the biggest “ohhh, that’s what this is for” moments, and a direct call on which one normal people should start with.

Keep scrolling for our favorite moments from the episode and why you should watch.

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🎙️ In case you missed it: Mustafa Suleyman on Microsoft building its own AI stack

Yesterday, Corey sat down with Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, at Microsoft Build 2026 to talk about the company’s new model lineup and its push to become more self-sufficient in AI.

TL;DW: Microsoft dropped seven models in one day, including models for transcription, voice, images, code, and reasoning. Mustafa’s pitch is that the company still works closely with OpenAI, while also building more of its own AI stack, from Copilot to healthcare models.

Why you should watch: The most useful part is hearing Mustafa’s filter for AI progress: does the technology accelerate human progress and keep humans in control? That makes the interview a good companion to today’s live, because today’s question is where the pieces fit in your workflow, while Mustafa’s question is where the whole AI stack is heading.

Favorite jump points:

• (1:01) Seven models in one day: Microsoft’s new lineup across transcription, voice, image, code, and reasoning.

• (2:12) The OpenAI shift: why Microsoft wants its own frontier AI muscles while still partnering with OpenAI.

• (8:13) Humanistic superintelligence: Mustafa’s test for whether a new AI system should exist at all.

Watch / Listen now: YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts

P.S. This is Mustafa’s second appearance on The Neuron AI Explained. If you liked this one, go watch our previous deep discussion with Suleyman on AI consciousness.

🔴 NEXT WEEK: OpenClaw vs Hermes Agenet, Explained

Thursday, June 18 at 10:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM CT / 1:00 PM ET

Next week on Neuron LIVE, Grant and Corey are breaking down two of the buzziest personal AI agent tools right now: OpenClaw and Hermes.

We’ll explain what each one does, how they’re different, who should try which one, and how to install them step by step (Grant will sacrifice his burner computer for science) and what you need to know before giving an AI agent access to your apps, files, browser, calendar, messages, or anything else you’d prefer not to accidentally hand to a tiny digital raccoon with admin privileges.

We’ll cover:

• OpenClaw: what it is, why people are excited about it, and why setup/security matter.

• Hermes: what makes it different, who it’s built for, and where it feels easier to start.

• The practical difference: local control vs convenience, power vs safety, setup time vs usability.

• The signup walkthrough: we’ll show you exactly how to get started with one of them live.

• The “should you actually use this?” test: the workflows where agents help, and the ones where you should probably keep them on a leash.

By the end, you should know which tool is worth trying first, what to avoid during setup, and how to think about personal agents without getting buried in GitHub pages, waitlists, Discord links, and 19 tabs you swear you’ll come back to later.

Basically: if this live session was all about “what even is an agent?”, this one is “okay, which agent do I actually install?”

🎙️ In Case You Missed It… Part Two: Tiago Sada Explains Why the Internet Needs Proof of Human

Corey sat down with Tiago Sada, Chief Product Officer at Tools for Humanity, for a very timely conversation about one of the internet’s fastest-growing problems: proving there’s an actual human on the other side of the screen.

Tools for Humanity is building the technology behind World and World ID, a system designed to verify that someone is a real, unique person without making them hand over their full identity to every app, website, ticketing platform, dating app, or suspicious “free iPad” pop-up they encounter online.

TL;DW: Corey and Tiago dug into why CAPTCHAs, KYC checks, and AI detection are starting to crack under the pressure of bots, deepfakes, and AI agents. They also covered how World ID works, what it stores, what it deletes, and why “proof of human” could become a trust layer for the internet.

Why you should watch: The biggest unlock here is not just stopping bots from hoarding concert tickets like tiny digital goblins. It’s the bigger question: how do we let AI agents act on our behalf without letting fake humans, fake accounts, and fake identities wreck the internet in the process?

P.S. This gets surprisingly practical fast. Dating apps, Zoom calls, gaming, Shopify stores, ticketing, enterprise security,basically anywhere you currently wonder, “Is this person real?” World ID wants to be part of the answer.

• YouTube: Watch Here

• Spotify: Watch here

• Apple podcasts: Listen here

One more before you go:

We’ve been doing a run of beginner-friendly livestreams lately. Here’s our rec: start with A Total Beginner’s Guide to AI Agents & Automation if you want the plain-English version of agents, automation, APIs, webhooks, JSON, and MCP. We’ve got a written guide to accompany it here as well.

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