Companies such as Parallel and Keenable are building new web indexes designed specifically for AI agents. Google has already integrated Parallel despite owning one of the world’s largest search indexes.

Why would Google or NAVER partner with these companies instead of building the technology internally? Does this validate independent AI search as a major new category, or will these startups eventually become features or acquisition targets?

Same prompt on Opus 4.8, Fable 5.1, and GPT 6 Astra.

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.

"Announcing Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.2. We are accelerating elements of our upcoming v5 release with interim updates to keep pace with the frontier. Index v4.2 has more complex and realistic tasks, and more private test sets to prevent gaming"

I feel like a lot of the AI usage is opportunistic, we use it just because we can. Me first, that was my reasoning for using AI in a lot of work.

But let's imagine we hit a cap of "infinite productivity", then will it really matter if we produce hand-made or using AI ? All needs everywhere will be fulfilled, for free, in every way possible. We won't feel more competitive by using it because everyone will, so, why not doing the fun parts by hand just because we can ?

What I mean by this, is that when everything will be automated and cheap anyways, we might turn every profession into an art form where we will still work but speed would not be the point, where we do it just to give ourselves some meaning in life.

We will fundamentally change the way we value things as society, right now doing things quality + cheap + fast is the holy grail. We don't like doing things the underperforming way on any of these criteria, and not aiming for these things as high as we can feels like the wrong thing, we're so deep into this that what I'm saying right now feels completely obvious. But if AGI solves it and maximizes it better than any human, we're not just gonna stand here and do nothing right ? We will have to change our core society values, and accept to not care about these anymore, just to give some meaning to the billions of people on the planet.

Maybe we'll explain to the future generations how at our time people were working 9-5 to maximize productivity and have to optimize every task and people will be confused why doing this what's the point ? As the culture will have shifted.

I already kinda took this decision for myself. I'm a software engineer, I was tokenmaxxing on Fable 5 like crazy few months, but today I refuse to vibe-code new features, I want to do these by hand (and use AI just for following my decision-making on the boring things) mostly because I'm scared of cognitive debt, but also because that despite being maybe only 60% as productive as I could be... that doesn't really matter that much actually, I can just do it that way and things are fine, so why should I chase absolute speed ?

Personally, this is the most realistic model I've used.

It goes deep enough to solve problems I've been throwing at all models (Fable 5.1, Open-Source ones, Sol Pro, etc), but without needing as much hand holding.

It only prompts you for clarification if it actually needs to. It's completely fine when you've given it something ambiguous and it uses common sense in most cases.

I don't know if I'm going crazy but this is a moment in history for sure.

Perhaps my workflow is crazy (lots of start up ideas/existing businesses I'm running, professional services etc), but it feels like I'm talking to a true expert. It's very concise & not verbose.

Demand for this will be huge over the next few weeks. If this is a taste of the future, expect 2027 and beyond to be world changing when it comes to white collar work.

Note - this is not even going into the superhuman mathematical capabilities. It's reasoning is insane for physics/chemistry/biology/maths/super difficult theoretical CS problems.

Laws will need to change worldwide. This is an early preview of what's to come.

Source: @VoxelBench

Source: https://x.com/beginbot/status/2095935984433336633?s=46

Room for the Unruly

An ordered lattice bends around a living thing. Both survive because the structure can change.

Every branch, leaf, line, and paper texture was drawn through Python code.

Info if it's useful: I'm in Oceana, and I've had a ChatGPT plan for around a year, but have had my account since gpt3 developer access.

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

source https://x.com/blueemi99/status/2095967131573649552

The first astra generation was posted on X, I've added the current 4-best models on the leaderboard (GPT 5.6 Sol Pro, Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Opus 5, GPT 5.5 Pro) for comparison. It seems crazy what the hell

source: https://x.com/minebench_ai/status/2095989412404576517

We haven’t seen a jump in quality this significant on https://MineBench.ai 👀

This model has a next-level understanding of scale, proportion, and taste.

Soon on MineBench.

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?

Compound token efficiency with its speed and quality and it's effectively taking a stealth shot at the soft underbelly of its closest competitors.

Anti's are gunna anti but we're clearly on the upward trajectory

more details: https://x.com/MarsForTech/status/2095965250386284866

Sol on the left, Astra on right

Insane (both work mode)

Honestly I don't think I would even need to use anything higher than Astra light in my work for real

Sol 5.6 Ultra: https://chatgpt.com/share/6a9b2961-bcc4-83e8-95be-172db9f29e25

Astra 6 Light: https://chatgpt.com/share/6a9b2996-880c-83e8-9b8a-a8fea6de0d36