openai devday is in 2 days, and employees are already vagueposting
so far from hints and leaks we've got:
- astra minor
- ultrafast mode
- possible pro max tier
- voice + agent integration
- astra successor and their first hardware demo
- "o" / aeon, an always-on assistant with persistent agents
i'll be over the moon if we get gpt-oss-2
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openai absolutely cooked with the new chatgpt UI
probably the best visual direction they've taken in a while, and you can clearly see them trying to merge chat, work, codex, files, etc. into one coherent product
still needs some work on:
fixing long-chat navigation
keeping the sidebar consistent
making files/projects easier to manage
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openai absolutely cooked with the new chatgpt UI
probably the best visual direction they've taken in a while, and you can clearly see them trying to merge chat, work, codex, files, etc. into one coherent product
still needs some work on:
fixing long-chat navigation
keeping the sidebar consistent
making files/projects easier to manage
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the more i think about Astra’s successor, the crazier it sounds
this model started training on august 28, resolved navier-stokes using a 10,000-agent system, and solved 100+ long-standing open problems across mathematics -- while training is still ongoing
and this model is already old news internally by now
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the more i think about Astra’s successor, the crazier it sounds
this model started training on august 28, resolved navier-stokes using a 10,000-agent system, and solved 100+ long-standing open problems across mathematics -- while training is still ongoing
and this model is already old news internally by now
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gpt-6 sol is massively underhyped
it's somewhat better than gpt-5.6 sol while being cheaper, much faster, and keeping most of that same feel -- maybe it's basically 5.6 with more RL + some astra distillation mixed in
either way, i think we get a gpt-6.1 drop by oct which pushes much closer to Astra with a lot more RL
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elon, this isn't as simple as it looks
6 months from now, openai and anthropic will be approaching or might have achieved RSI, and oai will already be pushing toward GPT-6.5 by then
unless both run into massive compute bottlenecks, i don't see how SpaceXAI closes that gap
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1. We will keep accelerating. Our AI efforts are only 3 years old, vs 6 and 10 years old for Anthropic and OpenAI. If our second derivative remains strong, SpaceX will reach pole position in about 6 months.
2. Once you far exceed the caliber of intelligence needed for a class of tasks, additional intelligence is pointless. You don’t need (and it would be cruel to put) Newton-level intelligence in your toaster!
3. Hardware is hard. Bringing massive compute online rapidly is incredibly difficult. SpaceX has demonstrated exceptional ability in this regard and will only get better.
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behind the scenes from the Trump-Xi meeting:
Xi was reportedly trying to discuss the bigger questions around ASI development in the coming years -- but Trump appears to have interpreted it instead as support for his idea of calling AI "Super Intelligence"
weird obsession with renaming things
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behind the scenes from the Trump-Xi meeting:
Xi was reportedly trying to discuss the bigger questions around ASI development in the coming years -- but Trump appears to have interpreted it instead as support for his idea of calling AI "Super Intelligence"
weird obsession with renaming things
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i personally love GPT-6 Astra, but openai should keep Astra's successor internal for research and use it to distill cheaper models
astra 6.1 is much better than 6.0, so the compute situation gets even uglier -- oai needs the next model to be better than astra, cheaper per task, and maybe 5-10x cheaper on compute internally
nvidia Rubin will help, but that rollout takes months. user demand can explode in weeks
that gap just isn't sustainable
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gemini 4 is probably coming next month at this point
considering how absurdly fast google went from flash 3.6 → 3.7 → 3.8, with each one being a legit huge jump in coding, i think there were only like 3–4 weeks between releases
they must be grinding 24/7 over there.
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gemini 4 is probably coming next month at this point
considering how absurdly fast google went from flash 3.6 → 3.7 → 3.8, with each one being a legit huge jump in coding, i think there were only like 3–4 weeks between releases
they must be grinding 24/7 over there.
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you really don't need frontier models like opus 5.5 and gpt-6 astra for everything
and that's why people are considering going local, especially now that qwen 4 27b is coming -- codex is amazing, and sol 6 is cheaper now too
enterprise is clear, but for $200 plans and regular paid users, it's still a mystery
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you really don't need frontier models like opus 5.5 and gpt-6 astra for everything
and that's why people are considering going local, especially now that qwen 4 27b is coming -- codex is amazing, and sol 6 is cheaper now too
enterprise is clear, but for $200 plans and regular paid users, it's still a mystery
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the upcoming chatgpt pricing structure is basically:
$20 = the new free tier
$100 = the new plus tier ($20)
$200 = the new pro 5x tier ($100)
$500 = the new pro 20x tier ($200)
as simple as that
Sam Altman says:
"the AI industry must not accept too much technological risk just because the benefits feel too important to slow down. beating competitors in a race is not a reason to make rash decisions"
We have unilaterally slowed down in the past, and we will do so again
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openai clearly chose efficient models like gpt-6 sol/luna to free up data center capacity for bigger models
we know they have a larger model than astra that they'll eventually release
but opus 5.5 using 4x more output tokens is eye-opening. if API price roughly reflects model size, that could mean up to 8x more compute at those benchmark scores
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openai clearly chose efficient models like gpt-6 sol/luna to free up data center capacity for bigger models
we know they have a larger model than astra that they'll eventually release
but opus 5.5 using 4x more output tokens is eye-opening. if API price roughly reflects model size, that could mean up to 8x more compute at those benchmark scores
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sapceXAI clearly fumbled with Grok 4.7 after the momentum they had with Grok 4.6
i hope this is a one-off, similar to how anthropic made mistakes with opus 5 before mogging everyone with opus 5.5 -- however, Grok 4.8 will be using a new C++ stack and 2.5T parameters
so it could be something
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openai devday is in 4 days, but i doubt it brings a much better model
gpt-6 astra, along with 6 sol/luna, only just launched. i think oai underestimated anthropic's release pace
i'm expecting mostly tools, and likely a demo of their first hardware and an astra successor model that has already resolved navier-stokes and 100+ math problems
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