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Having a blast learning what's possible at the edges of multimodal personalization for consumer right now with these models.
The current narrative is that people will want to build their own bespoke apps that fit their needs - but I think the richer opportunity is to build world-class products that carve unique experiences for each user of your platform... they also inspire.
This is a shot of our podcast highlight clip, generated for big life "moments" in your Backwhen project. It's automatically curated from group interviews over time - leveraging video gen with @GeminiApp veo by a @claudeai producer.
Congrats to the @Brewers - what a series performance and so cool to see the World Series back to the franchise after so long. Long for the @Mariners to do the same one day.

ALT Milwaukee Brewers National League Champs Postseason 2026, Budweiser x MLB Five cutouts (going clockwise from the middle) of Jackson Chourio, William Contreras, Brice Turang, Abner Uribe and Christian Yelich in cream-colored Brewers uniforms in front of a dark blue and silver background with the National League Championship Trophy as well.
Bawahah this is so good
Introducing ChatGPT for Dishwashing
GPT-6 achieves state-of-the-art results on dishwashing benchmarks for long-running jobs and difficult stains.
The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem is a $1 million challenge about whether the equations describing fluid motion can break down. In this video, I accidentally found a counter-example while trying to optimize my dishwasher. But in reality, OpenAI used 10,000 AI agents to find a proof in 88 hours: openai.com/index/navier-stok…
Parody of the original GPT-6 Astra ad
@OpenAI #ChatGPT_Partner #chatgpt
Credits:
Written and Directed by Joma
Co-Writer - Henry Connor Coan IV @coan_henry
Production by Dauntlus Studios @dauntlus.studios
Producer/Co-Director - Marcus Liew @dauntlus
Camera Operator - Amos Lee @amoselijahlee
Art Director - Alethea Soo @aletheasoo
Art Assistant - Alicia Lim @aliciatkl_
Assistant Editor - GPT-6 Astra
Music: Tensions Run High by Soundridemusic
youtube.com/watch?v=Ly9H63SL…
Indeed the major issue is that the challenge review is positioned when it crosses center plate - not fully aligned with the official MLB playbook for the cubic (3D) strike zone as they first trialed
So umpires are getting scrutinized and lambasted for missing pitches an 1/8” of an inch to an inch off the plate that really isn’t the plate as MLB only counts the back half of home plate. Imagine being told you are wrong by a computer that the pitch you called a strike because it caught the front half of the plate is actually a ball. Then getting crap from all the younger, nerdy generation because it’s so EZ to tell if a pitch is a strike at 100 mph or a ball from your fucking couch. Get a grip people. They won’t call the real zone because hitters would struggle more than they do now. Imagine that.
Noticing one seismic lift in designing emerging software right now, even as you're increasingly competing with frontier labs in offering consumers their bespoke personalized workflows... each upstream model release can materially elevate your well-designed features, at every turn, and with minimal product rework.
While inheriting regular upstream improvements from library dependences have long benefited online software, the experiential leap generative models are offering users is demonstrable and can be pretty magical if stacked right and guided by your brand ethos. In many cases, it makes base features ever cheaper to power, too.
Leveraging model updates doesn't come for free obviously (requires diligent coordination and good evals before deploying), but with upstream intelligence growing so rapidly, baking the right mix of generative features into your product might matter more than anything else.
And it’s also the reason why I still don't believe everyone will want to build their own island of generative apps - the cross-model remix is how the best experiences are crafted.
Blaine Sheldon retweeted
Holy Smokes, what a tribute.
The entire Mariners’ team emerges from the home dugout and onto the field here at T-Mobile Park, tipping their caps to Rick Rizzs moments before his final game.
It was all a gesture of surprise. The water works have begun.
Thanks for a lifetime of Mariners Moments, Rizzs - we’ll miss hearing your play calls all season long.
Hopefully you’ll drop back on the mic to call our long-awaited World Series run when the times comes!
41 seasons on the call, a lifetime in our hearts.
Rick Rizzs, you’re a Mariners legend. #FarewellRick
It's wild we live in a moment where we're deploying deep intelligence at scale with once unfathomable compute, while also living deeply nostalgic marketing of what the 90s US culture delivered.
Everything from the early digital serif branding (think apple and encarta), to the retro commercial vibes of the SuperBowl, to re-gen of media throwbacks from millennial era TV.
The next best time to build might be in 6 months instead
Good reminder here that with rapidly accelerating AI progress, you should likely be building with a vision that contemplates at least a few orders of magnitude of capability improvement or token volume available to you.
The best opportunities right now are those where you can value to customers today with things that are barely only possible, but with a full mission that feels nearly impossible with today’s tech.
There are lots of products the require orders of magnitude more processing of data (and thus are barely economically viable ideas) or where model capabilities still are in their infancy relative to what’s needed to work. Best to be building for those scenarios.
Blaine Sheldon retweeted
Whoa- this is the most fantastic pedagogical tool I’ve encountered in as long as I can remember (which is a helluva high bar, considering who I live with).
I’m so excited to have my 6yo play with it! And you all should too.
anyhumanever.com/
This is kinda mind blowing and expect we don't get off this lift for the rest of the coming year. It's awesome to imagine the possibilities for health breakthroughs and accessible services to the masses in this new world ahead...
It's also daunting to consider if these models were available when the Patriot Act was first passed and Operation Stellar Wind was deployed post 9/11. We have a serious responsibility for oversight on how these are going to be deployed into government domestically too.
GPT-6 Astra is out. We've been testing the model in early preview on our enterprise complex work eval at Box. It is now the best model we've ever tested on our expanded and hardest test set.
Overall, GPT-6 Astra offers a breakthrough level of capability in coding, analytics, logic, and domain specific knowledge for dealing with complex enterprise knowledge work. In our eval, we use the GPT-6 Astra model in the Box Agent and give it a set of difficult tasks that represent real-world work in various industries. These tasks often will take people hours to execute properly and require deep domain expertise.
GPT-6 Astra scored 77% overall vs. 74% with GPT-5.6 Sol, representing frontier performance. But the story is in some of the bigger gains on individual task types that are incredibly complex across. Here are a few examples across the tests that show how much of an impact this will be in different industries:
* Media and entertainment (48% → 100%, +52 points). Ranking film genres and countries by profitability across a year of production data from four teams, where the trick is to apply the following year's tax-incentive corrections without double-counting them. GPT-6 Astra was perfect on every attempt. Sol had the rankings right but the underlying ratios were wrong.
* Technology (69% → 97%, +28 points). Choosing which region to fund first, from a stack of performance and infrastructure documents that never state the metric the brief asks for. GPT-6 Astra flagged the gap, labelled its own figure a proxy, and caught a growth claim that didn't match the numbers beneath it. GPT-5.6 Sol reported the proxy as the real thing.
* Legal (69% → 93%, +24 points). Reviewing an NDA against a company's own contracting policy, where reaching the right verdict isn't enough; the answer has to cite the provision behind it. Both models declined to approve the draft, but only GPT-6 Astra separated whether the liability cap's structure was permissible from whether its amount was defensible, and pointed to the policy language that settles it. GPT-5.6 Sol argued the same conclusion without citing the provision, which is a critical error in the legal industry.
* Healthcare (53% → 77%, +23 points). Auditing a batch of radiology reports for errors and rating how serious each one is. GPT-6 Astra caught a terminology error in a knee-imaging report that GPT-5.6 Sol missed on both attempts, and was more reliable at grading severity rather than just flagging that something was wrong.
* Energy (82% → 97%, +15 points). Building a consumption report on two facilities from a year of meter logs, where only one of the two sites is actually missing data. GPT-6 Astra found it and drew a line most reviewers wouldn't: the other site's odd solar readings are a measurement problem to investigate, not a gap in the record. GPT-5.6 Sol reported both sites as incomplete.
Astra clearly is going to offer a meaningful jump in powering and orchestrating enterprise workflows. We'll be making GPT-6 Astra as an option in the Box AI Studio for customers to build agents with shortly as it continues to roll out.
this is candyland - hope @MLBTheShow taps it
What a week for multi-modal AI models already - remixing these capabilities into cohesive creative experiences is going to be a high art from in demand for growing teams!
This is genuinely impressive for live sessions - been waiting for multi speaker diarization this smooth

















