The Week We Hit 96% Toward AGI: Ninja Robots, Brain-Like AI & GeoGuessr on Steroids
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The Week We Hit 96% Toward AGI: Ninja Robots, Brain-Like AI & GeoGuessr on SteroidsAGI just jumped again — to 96%, according to Alan’s conservative countdown — and this week delivered some of the most surreal breakthroughs yet.
In this episode, Dylan breaks down the moment where everything in AI seemed to accelerate at once:
Google’s adaptive nested-learning architecture that lets AI learn while thinking
Gemini 4’s potential to become a “train once, learn forever” model
China’s humanoid robot that side-flips away from arrows like a movie stunt double
New hyper-realistic video-game mods that blur the line between gameplay and reality
Autonomous sanitation robot parades in Shenzhen
NVIDIA’s hybrid diffusion–autoregressive model that could make LLMs 5× faster
Johns Hopkins’ research showing which tweaks make AI more “brain-like”
GeoVista, an AI agent that can zoom, pan, and reason its way through Street View
NY’s proposed law forcing websites to reveal when AI sets personalized prices
It’s a rapid-fire tour through the most important—and strangest—advances happening at the edge of the singularity.
If you want the smartest, fastest weekly AI briefing, this is the one.
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