Show Notes
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Are the new safety guardrails on GPT-5.6 Sol a breakthrough? This week Tim Hwang is joined by Chris Hay, Lauren McHugh Olende and Kush Varshney to debrief OpenAI’s new GPT-5.6 Sol. The panel compares the new generation of models to Anthropic’s Mythos. Next, there’s growing skepticism from Wall Street around AI, we unpack the concerns about infrastructure costs, memory shortages and long-term economics of frontier AI models. Then, AI made it to the Fifa World Cup, but is it actually scoring? Finally, we analyze a new paper comparing LLMs to goats in Age of Empires II. All that and more on this week’s Mixture of Experts.
00:00 – Introduction
01:04 -- GPT-5.6 Sol
12:50 – Wall Street and AI IPOs
22:16 -- AI at the World Cup
30:21 – Goats vs. Agentic AI
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Read more about AI Anthropomorphism: Goats and Age of Empires → https://www.ibm.com/think/news/microsoft-researcher-age-of-empires-ii-goats-neural-network-llm-anthropomorphism
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