GPT 6 Astra, so good even OpenAI are worried

Where to start? A new era of cost-efficient AI on a day benchmark-makers got humbled, traders got excited, and AI safety researchers got unnerved. From monitorability losing hold of GPT-6 Astra’s chains of thought to breakthrough discoveries, Fable-mogging and much more…

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Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
00:53 - vs Fable
05:27 - most impressive results
13:06 - bonus comparisons (plus trading)
18:40 - concerning trend
21:24 - Cot Control

GPT-6: https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/
Paper: https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-6-astra/gpt-6-astra.pdf

Looped Transformers and AGI Milestone: https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained/posts/breakthrough-and-168513408

Messy Rollout: https://x.com/sama/status/2095678759651438887
Much More Capable Models Coming: https://x.com/MTSlive/status/2095573400899170592
‘AGI Era’ https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/989601/openai-gpt-6-astra-release

ARC-AGI 3: https://x.com/fchollet/status/2095598451115614371
https://x.com/fchollet/status/2095607046129463577
https://arcprize.org/blog/astra

FrontierMath: https://epoch.ai/frontiermath/tiers-1-4/about
Discovery: https://x.com/jdlichtman/status/2095660916310483087

Fable 5.1: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-fable-and-mythos-5-1
https://science-task-lens.aiex.chatgpt.site/securebio
Agents Last Exam: https://agents-last-exam.org/
Terminal Bench Science: https://github.com/harbor-framework/terminal-bench-science#task-coverage
SRE Bench: https://x.com/ValsAI/status/2087682813743317396
ScreenSpot Pro: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.07981
Weathernext 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6jZlnRsXXQ
DayBreak: https://x.com/fouadmatin/status/2095634888951250983
AA Index: https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/gdpval-aa

Visual Demos: https://x.com/mattshumer_/status/2095609734845927525
https://x.com/codestantine/status/2095598327115260368
https://x.com/SahilExec/status/2095688272269984016

Monitorability: https://x.com/NeelNanda5/status/2095533397297045716
https://x.com/tomekkorbak/status/2095596848581071020
https://x.com/Marcus_J_W/status/2095623593006686475
https://x.com/MicahCarroll/status/2095603855316996529
Not Accept Degradation: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/openai-debuts-gpt-6-astra-security-measures-rcna595940

RSI: https://x.com/LiuZuxin/status/2095600499911446697



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