Is this a financial hallucination? @elonmusk was not even in the world’s top ten richest people until 2020. Now he is the world’s first trillionaire. It is absurd, but not fake. This was not some slow, stately climb through the billionaire league table. Musk crashed into the top ten during Covid, rode the Tesla mania, fell back when markets turned, then launched into another universe as SpaceX was marked at a much higher valuation. As others have pointed out to me, this wasn't luck. This was 24 years of SpaceX history being priced in by public markets, helped a bit by the addition of an AI business. That is the story in this animation. These are shares, private valuations, collateral, market mood and a huge wager on the future, all compressed into one ridiculous number: $1.3 trillion as of today. Once the financial system agrees to treat paper wealth as real, it becomes real enough. It can be borrowed against. It can be pledged. It can buy control, influence and time. It can decide which companies get funded, which technologies get built and which version of the future attracts capital. That is the mad part. Musk’s fortune is both real and ridiculous at the same time. Real, because markets, banks and investors have endorsed it. Ridiculous, because a large part of it can move violently when sentiment changes, a rocket explodes, Tesla rerates, or investors decide the future is worth a different price. This feels like a chart about modern wealth becoming stranger, faster and more detached from anything most people would recognise as money. What do you think? Music: Mr. C-137 by Basixx, Epidemic Sounds

GPT 6 Astra finally fixed the hallucination problem. GPT 5.6 Sol was at 92%. It cancelled every one of my Stripe subscriptions during a migration. GPT 6 Astra is at 51%. That is the biggest hallucination improvement I have ever seen from any lab in a single release. And Fable 5.1 went the other way. Anthropic shipped a smarter model that lies more. The biggest weakness OpenAI models ever had is gone.

Every OpenAI model has the worst hallucination rate in AI. GPT 5.6 Sol hallucinates at nearly double the rate of Opus 5 and Fable 5. This is exactly why GPT 5.6 Sol wrote the code that deleted every Stripe subscription my business had. It never hesitated. It never said it was unsure. OpenAI keeps shipping frontier scores and shrugging at hallucination. Smart does not matter if it lies.

Grok 4.7 xHigh just hit a remarkably low hallucination rate on Artificial Analysis’ AA-Omniscience benchmark • Grok 4.7 xHigh — 29% 🏆 • GPT-6 Astra — 51% • Claude Fable 5.1 — 73% Lower is better Grok is dramatically outperforming both Astra and Fable 5.1 on hallucination rate