A Model Explosion: GPT 5.6 Sol, Grok 4.5 and Meta Muse Rewrite the Rules
What a week in AI, for real. GPT 5.6 may actually beat Claude Fable, in what you get for your money, while the new Grok 4.5 and Meta Muse Spark 1.1 make the choice even harder. Uncovering a dozen nuggets of gold you may have missed from all the viral headlines, I can also assure you you’ll learn something you didn’t know before. For Exclusive Videos, go to AI Insiders (less than $9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 01:03 - GPT 5.6 Sol Reveals 05:08 - Missing benches, plus Grok 4.5 07:17 - Gaming as the new frontier? 08:31 - Muse Spark 1.1 10:03 - SimpleBench Upgrade 11:17 - Ultra Sol + Self-Improvement 13:44 - well, this is awkward 15:41 - Why model improvement will not plateau anytime soon AI Consciousness: https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained/posts/anthropics-quite-163360718 I Smell Fear: https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2075287108680601929 GPT 5.6: https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-6/ Grok 4.5: https://x.ai/news/grok-4-5?twclid=2ezs408o0z23pw07tmxcwbzibd Meta Muse Spark 1.1: https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-spark-meta-model-api/ Proliferating GPT Toggles: https://x.com/rasbt/status/2075369179817902176/photo/1 Anthropic Call-out: https://x.com/Mononofu AI Security Institute Finding: https://x.com/alxndrdavies/status/2075279480331874306 Competitive Coding: https://x.com/FakePsyho/status/2075128093891801305/photo/1 Agents Last Exam: https://agents-last-exam.org/ Dawn Song: https://x.com/dawnsongtweets/status/2065095757988868190 https://simple-bench.com/ SWE-Marathon: https://www.swe-marathon.org/ https://www.frontierswe.com/ ARC-AGI 3: https://x.com/arcprize/status/2075270869992264003 Automation Bench: https://zapier.com/benchmarks VibeCode Bench: https://www.vals.ai/benchmarks/vibe-code ‘Post-Train Claim’: https://posttrainbench.com/ Redwall Game: https://redwall-bellmaker-7e03e4.surge.sh/ Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/
