AI SLOWDOWN ๐ฅ:
> Dario Amodei: pace the frontier, not halt it โ embedded evaluators, lab coordination, then a global deal.
> Elon, All-In: peer-review rival models before release. โDario is right.โ
> Sam Altman agrees, will match evaluators, and says pacing means slower, not stopped.
> Demis Hassabis: Amodeiโs essay โpoints towards the right path,โ details TBD, plus DeepMindโs standards-body plan.
> Satya Nadella welcomes deliberate pacing and embedded evaluators; superintelligence without human control is โnot worth pursuing.โ
> Alexandr Wang: alignment is fundamental and may gate scaling near the frontier, with no join on a coordinated slowdown.
> Trump rejects a slowdown: takeover talk is a โhoax,โ control is a โstrong and smart president,โ and a โsick conspiracyโ against AI only helps China.
> China MFAโs Guo Jiakun: slowdown talk is โfear-mongeringโ; confrontation โserves no oneโs interest.โ
MODEL FORECAST ๐ฅ:
-โ Today? Gemini 3.8 Live and Live Extended Thinking slugs appeared on the Cloud quota page; not public.
-โ This week? Grok 4.7 should land near Opus 5.0, not 5.1; multimodal still needs work.
-โ This week? Testers say some Claude Code Opus 5 traffic is routing to Opus 5.2 โ faster and less lazy, still unofficial.
-โ Soon: Grok 4.8 is a 2.5T model on a new C++ stack; training wraps this week, then RL.
-โ Not soon: Grok 4.9 is โprobably Astra/Fable classโ; Grok 5 is โmaybe better than anything.โ
PERPLEXITY ๐ฅ:
-โ Portable Computer is live on Windows PCs with NVIDIA RTX GPUs and 24GB+ VRAM, including local MCP and scheduled tasks.
OPENAI ๐ฅ:
-โ Bought Glass Imaging for $300M, per WSJ โ an ex-Apple smartphone-camera startup, after the earlier Opal webcam stake.
-โ Codex โ got an official Arch Linux installer with pacman updates.
GOOGLE ๐ฅ:
-โ Interactive Reports incoming on Gemini Notebook: embed mind maps, slide decks, flashcards, and quizzes.
-โ Gemini Live can run Deep Research in the background and ping you when the report is ready.
-โ API slug antigravity-preview-09-2026 spotted: hosted Linux sandbox agent, expected to be powered by Gemini 3.8 Flash.
P.S. All predictions in the Model Forecast section are unconfirmed and may change anytime.
P.S.S. We've used Grok to compose this brief, cherry-picking the news and doing some post-editing.