GPT-6 Astra Harder To Monitor, AI Model Mania, and Gemini’s Mountain Fail | EP116

GPT-6 Astra is putting up some eye-watering benchmark scores, with several well into the 90s. Justin’s impressed enough to consider ditching Anthropic. Frank’s less dazzled by the scores and more worried that OpenAI’s most capable model is also getting harder to monitor.

Plus: Nvidia’s $12 billion Unicode joke, the US government weighing in on OpenAI’s copyright case, Gemini 3.8 Flash becoming old news within days, Meta’s absurdly cheap Muse Spark 1.3 coding model, Fal generating video faster than you can watch it, Tencent shrinking HY4 without making it stupid, and Gemini sending three hikers up Mount Shasta rather badly prepared.

00:27 Did Nvidia really make a $12 billion joke?
01:53 Was Frank right about OpenAI and copyright?
05:52 Are AI models now coming like buses?
06:22 Did Gemini’s new model become outdated in days?
08:42 Is Meta now the cheapest way to code with AI?
10:40 Can AI now make video faster than you watch?
12:40 How did Tencent shrink AI without dumbing it down?
14:28 Has GPT-6 Astra broken the benchmarks?
16:57 Is Astra becoming impossible to monitor?
19:58 Is computer control Astra’s biggest breakthrough?
23:15 Is OpenAI preparing us for life after laptops?
25:44 Is Astra already AGI?
28:16 Is AGI still going to be stupid in weird ways?

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► LINKS TO CONTENT WE DISCUSSED

• There's an Easter egg hiding inside the $12.9303 billion price tag of the Nvidia-Hugging Face deal
• US government sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material
• Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
• Claude: Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1
• Introducing Muse Spark 1.3
• Introducing H3 Max by fal
• Tencent released open-source Hy4 preview model
• Introducing GPT‑6 Astra
• Researchers fear safety disaster ahead of OpenAI’s Astra release
• Inside OpenAI’s Reboot
• Hikers rescued after using AI to plan Mount Shasta hike

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