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

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://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."

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

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

Source: @Clad3815 on X

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.

I'm speechless.

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François Chollet is the creator of ARCAGI and has historically been one of the more skeptical voices on near term AGI and LLM scaling.

In 2024 when he was asked about his AGI timeline, he recalled that his estimate would have been roughly 10 yearish. In February 2026 he said AGI around 2030~, roughly around the time of ARCAGI 6-7.

Today, following the latest Astra release and ARCAGI-3 saturation, he was asked whether he still thinks ~2030 is on track. His answer:
“Sooner, given progress is happening faster than I expected.”

Here are more results:
Claude Fable 5.1 86.6%

Human Baseline* 83.7%

Gemini 3.8 Flash 82.4%

Claude Fable 81.9%

Muse Spark 1.3 81.8%