ThursdAI: GPT-6.1 Sol, Sonnet 5.5 and Gemini 4 Argon all land as nobody paces the frontier
altryne · x · 2026-10-02
- Alex Volkov recorded this week's ThursdAI live from CoreWeave's Fully Connected conference at Moscone, with guests including Wolfram Ravenwolf, Peter Gostev, Nisten and LDJ.
- Three major models shipped in one week: GPT-6.1 Sol claims near-Astra performance at roughly a fifth of the price, Claude Sonnet 5.5 beats Opus on Terminal-Bench, and Gemini 4 Argon tops the charts.
- OpenAI's biggest DevDay ever brought 20 launches, headlined by "Dots," marking OpenAI's entry into the AI assistant race against Meta's Muse and Grokbot.
- altryne asked Sam Altman at DevDay whether OpenAI would consider slowing down; the answer was no — nobody is pacing the frontier.
- Hour two features four CoreWeave builders discussing physical AI, Forge, distillation and Agent Lens, plus an on-air scoop: CoreWeave serverless GPUs.
Related event: ThursdAI Weekly Recaps a Burst of Major Model Launches(2 posts)→
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