Alan Thompson raises AGI score to 99%, switches daily driver to Claude Opus 5.5
LeviTurk · x · 2026-09-28
In his Sep 28 Memo, AI tracker Dr Alan D. Thompson raised his personal AGI score from 98% to 99% (ASI steady at 2/50) and says he switched his daily driver model to Claude Opus 5.5 for the first time in over half a year, calling earlier Opus 4.7/4.8/5 releases big steps backwards.
Highlights: Microsoft agentically ported its Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K — a 25-hour session starting with 56 minutes of doc reading and 122 clarification tool calls, then spawning 15 child sessions in separate worktrees that coordinated via a built-in orchestration skill. The memo also covers Claude Opus 5.5, Figure Helix 2.5, GPT-6 Astra/Sol, Neuralink thought-to-text, and policy items (AI Force, an AI slowdown lawsuit, military false intel). Note: this is a paid digest and only the opening is visible here.
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