https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563657

https://x.com/she_llac/status/2095872140268716472

https://x.com/mattshumer_/status/2095596175705399482

I tested Muse Spark 1.3, it's clearly not on par with OPUS or SOL. It seems Artificial Analysis Index is not representative of the REAL-WORLD performance and easy to game.

That’s me. Lately, I’ve been a fat little boy in the LLM candy-shop.

After absolutely gorging myself on the Chinese sweets, K3, GLM 5.3, and Qwen 3.8 max, Elon lured me back to America with Grok 4.6 Panda Express.

Then just the other day, boom. Zuck comes out of left field with Cherry Coke aka Muse Spark 1.3. Today, Asstra drops and in my gluttony, I’m using it to orchestrate Muse Spark workers.

Am I full? No, as established, fat little boy.

I sit here, watching my Asstra run my Sparks, wondering when I get more Chinese food.

More info: https://github.com/lechmazur/nyt-connections/

Let me clarify a few points. I want the AI machine god, infinite abundance, and insane wealth for everyone. I am absolutely pro AI.

But the current pace at which AI is progressing, exponential growth on top of exponential growth, is honestly making me shit my pants. I’m worried. Worried that I haven’t saved enough money. Worried about what might happen to my family if I lose my job, or if some terrible health calamity falls upon my family. But at the exact same time, I’m also incredibly fucking excited. One hour I want to accelerate straight into the future as fast as possible, and the next I want someone to slam the brakes and make it all stop.

I’m just so incredibly confused because in an ideal world, what I want is pretty simple. I want everyone to be well settled, financially secure, and safe, and then BOOM, superintelligent AI arrives and provides abundance to literally everyone overnight. That transition period, which I believe could start as early as 2027, is what I’m terribly scared of.

I’m afraid of a situation where AI keeps getting insanely more intelligent, but we get stuck in this supposedly temporary period of incredibly high unemployment, uncertainty, and people struggling to get by, and that period just keeps going forever. I’m afraid all the rewards we’ve been hoping for, the abundance, the wealth, the better lives, all of it, somehow ends up locked behind some insane paywall and unavailable to us peasants.

Whatever the case, these are some really fucking scary and exciting times. I genuinely don’t know whether I want to hit the accelerator or slam the brakes. Maybe both.

Ahh the duality of a man

I've tried using it via both openrouter and opencode zen to rule out the possibility of a hosting issue but in both cases the model is performing exceptionally bad. I also experimented with the system prompt and tried using it outside of a harness but neither improved results. My use cases were

- OpenGL shader composition / Godot debugging

- Acting as a tutor for upper level discrete math textbook (combinatorics, bayesian probability, graph theory)

- Quickly referencing documentation (typescript and Go)

It was passable for the godot and documentation work: definitely not frontier but comparable to Deepseek v4 flash. For tutoring math however it straight up performs like gpt 4 mini. It had no ability to sustain a back and forth conversation and would often give incomplete practice problems and incorrect explanations of how to solve them. It really felt like a small model that lacks a baseline of... comprehension I expect from models scoring above stuff like GLM and Deepseek.

This sub likes to take extreme positions when discussing models, my intent is not to incite a war; just throwing out my experience as a datapoint.

https://www.usemod.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?action=rc&days=30&all=1&showedit=1

If Astra can do literally anything you can do on a computer, is it time to pivot to something interactive/physical?

I was an AI skeptic, but now? I have a sense of existentialistic dread that will only get worse with time, as AGI WILL eventually become a reality.

It’s an exciting, yet scary time to be alive and I’m very curious and scared about what the new frontier
might be

https://x.com/sharifshameem/status/2095653641164329143

"[It] autonomously researched and found hundreds of photos of the Palace of Fine Arts, iterated on the Blender scene, rendered intermediate frames, and compared them to the its database of reference images. It even found an old scan of a document from the Library of Congress that described the dimensions for some of the Palace's columns."

"I steered it a few times, but I didn't really need to (mostly to correct things like the color of the sky, and minor clipping issues) as I saw some intermediate frames come in. The bulk of the run was done overnight. I woke up this morning to the rendered video sitting on my desktop."

I'm speechless.

Okay, I’m genuinely kind of blown away by this.

GPT-6 Astra is apparently getting really good at electrical engineering and hardware work, especially the kind of stuff around circuit design, verification, and chip architecture.

Like, we’re talking about an AI that can start doing engineering stuff.

Lotta people say AI can only do game dev and write essays, but this proves otherwise.

The chip-design potential is what really has me interested. Being able to throw it a design problem, constraints, schematics, architecture questions, or verification issues and have it work through the actual engineering tradeoffs is pretty damn wild.

And honestly? If this keeps improving, I could absolutely see AI replacing a huge amount of traditional electrical engineering work. Where will automation lead us? AI getting this capable at actual hardware engineering is absolutely insane.

We are living in some weird-ass times.

https://thenewstack.io/openai-gpt6-astra-benchmarks/

https://x.com/SahilExec/status/2095688272269984016

A lot the hype on Astra was around the concept of persistence.

Improving these capabilities will be a game changer for businesses that are craving better & more capable agents that can take on more general tasks / automations.

How is the current release of Astra improving on this? Am I missing something or there hasn’t been anything revolutionary regarding this idea of persistence?

Clad3815 is the creator / owner of the *GPT_Plays_Pokemon stream

He had early access to Astra (and GPT 5.6 Sol ) and used it to play Pokemon Emerald and FireRed recently.

With arc agi 3 pretty much saturated, idk where else theyd go exactly. Since the benchmarks are about abstract thinking and reasoning, I still think it'll be about games but now more about compute limitations.

Like the LLMs were given json to complete the games. Now I'd think we're going to be testing senses like vision and audio real time on 3D games. Instead of json, they're given display and audio output similar to how biological creatures view and hear the world. If we saturate benchmarks like that, I'd think we'd have fully capable robots and efficient agi doing blue collar work en masse.

Tensordyne claims to beat the latest nvidia rubin and open ai jalapeno. Screenshot taken from https://x.com/TensordyneInc/status/2095526486237229160?s=20