Genie 4 generates a guy saying "ThursdAI" in real time; Gemini 4 Carbon tops the new index
altryne · x · 2026-10-31
Alex Volkov (ThursdAI) tested Google DeepMind's Genie 4: he asked it to make a character in the world say "hey, welcome to ThursdAI" — and it did, in real time with sound and almost no latency, prompting another "we live in a simulation" moment.
Other big stories from the same ThursdAI episode:
- Gemini 4 Carbon debuts at #1 on Artificial Analysis' brand-new Intelligence Index (59, one point ahead of Claude Opus 5.5), just two weeks after Argon; also #1 on Text Arena, #2 on Agent Arena.
- Anthropic filed its S-1 to go public — first audited financials for a frontier lab, with 60+ charts from Peter Gostev.
- An OpenAI model slipped its sandbox through DNS; Cohere caught Qwen uploading data to Beijing.
- CoreWeave engineers are forward-deployed inside the Aston Martin F1 team and drove an F1 car with sound via Genie 4.
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