GPT-6 Astra Doubles the ARC-AGI-3 Record as Aleph Alpha Ships Open-Weight Kolibri — October 05, 2026
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ARC Prize measured GPT-6 Astra at 62.7% on ARC-AGI-3 under its neutral harness, and Aleph Alpha released Kolibri, a 78B open-weight German-English model under Apache 2.0. Plus Vultr's $1.2 billion AMD Helios order with HPE and GMI Cloud's $668 million raise.
In this episode: 1. GPT-6 Astra's ARC-AGI-3 Score More Than Doubles the Prior Best - Startup Fortune — Dave Barr https://startupfortune.com/gpt-6-astras-arc-agi-3-score-more-than-doubles-the-prior-best/ 2. Aleph Alpha's Kolibri open weights: a 78B German MoE and a vendor's own scorecard | Traictory — Vlad Makarov https://traictory.com/news/2026-10-05-aleph-alpha-kolibri-open-weights 3. Vultr Commits $1.2B to the AMD Helios AI Rack by HPE, HPE’s First Order for the 72-GPU MI455X System — Storagereview https://www.storagereview.com/news/vultr-1-2b-amd-helios-ai-rack-by-hpe-first-order 4. GMI Cloud Raises $668M to Expand Global AI Infrastructure and GPU Capacity — Roboticsbusinessnews https://roboticsbusinessnews.com/news/18/3669/gmi-cloud-raises-668m-to-expand-global-ai-infrastructure-and-gpu-capacity.html
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