# EMERGENCY PODCAST! Is this AGI?

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Podcast: [The Generative AI Meetup Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/generative-ai-meetup)
Published: 2026-09-05T08:43:17+00:00
Episode link: https://podcast.genaimeetup.com/e/emergency-podcast-is-this-agi/
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## Resource

Sponsor: https://novacut.ai/ https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/ Really Good Visual reasoning. Harness design very important Very fast, but doesn’t show reasoning trace Solved Arc AGI 3 99.9% "works in a way that obscures some or all of the AI’s reasoning, otherwise known as its 'chain of thought https://www.anthropic.com/claude-fable-and-mythos-5-1 Someone reported 3.5x weekly increase on Max compared to Pro https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1uzkxbi/comment/oy8675z/ https://developer.meta.com/ai/models/muse-spark/ Meta is catching up Very cheap if you give up your data We’re speculating but may be benchmaxed https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/3-8-flash-and-3-8-flash-cyber/ Still disappointing no Pro model Pareto frontier on speed/intelligence Cost performance curve is good Hardware https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-new-mac-studio-with-m5-max-and-m5-ultra/ New Apple CEO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ternus https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/openai-jalapeno-better-than-nvidia https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-in-talks-to-buy-hugging-face-13-billion-dollars-2026-8 Benchmarks https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/artificial-analysis-intelligence-index-v4-2 What is AGI? What are we measuring here

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