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.

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%

Source: @Clad3815 on X

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."

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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.”

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

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.

NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000. Some people say it's good for open source / open weight models, while some people have doubts.

Blog post: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-to-acquire-hugging-face/