V4.1 Flash called the first open model that feels proto-AGI
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-16
The author says V4.1 Flash is the first open model they feel can be called proto-AGI: it can attempt almost anything, is resourceful if not very smart or error-free, and "just more of that" gets arbitrarily far. A follow-up test letting the model freely design its own vanship turned out "not terrible".
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