EMERGENCY PODCAST! Is this AGI?

Sponsor: https://novacut.ai/ 

https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/ 

• Really Good Visual reasoning. 
• Harness design very important
• Very fast, but doesn’t show reasoning trace
• Solved Arc AGI 3 99.9%
• "works in a way that obscures some or all of the AI’s reasoning, otherwise known as its 'chain of thought

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-fable-and-mythos-5-1

• Someone reported 3.5x weekly increase on Max compared to Pro https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1uzkxbi/comment/oy8675z/
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https://developer.meta.com/ai/models/muse-spark/ 

• Meta is catching up
• Very cheap if you give up your data
• We’re speculating but may be benchmaxed 

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/3-8-flash-and-3-8-flash-cyber/ 

• Still disappointing no Pro model
• Pareto frontier on speed/intelligence
• Cost performance curve is good

 

Hardware

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-new-mac-studio-with-m5-max-and-m5-ultra/

New Apple CEO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ternus

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/openai-jalapeno-better-than-nvidia

https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-in-talks-to-buy-hugging-face-13-billion-dollars-2026-8 

 

Benchmarks

https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/artificial-analysis-intelligence-index-v4-2 

What is AGI? What are we measuring here