Dwarkesh Patel recounts OpenAI agent civilizations saga

A user gave Astra a robot, paint brush, and camera, and it learned to control the robot to paint the Golden Gate bridge in real life, improving across attempts.

A Reddit user asks for ~10B models that act as good collaborators, noting that new models score high on benchmarks but don't push back on flawed premises. The thread seeks recommendations for models that challenge ideas.

A modular ComfyUI workflow for MiniMax H3 supports multi-segment generation, continuous transitions, existing-video continuation, and targeted segment regeneration. Motion Context makes joins between segments nearly imperceptible.

GPT-6 Astra achieved the biggest jump in Vending-Bench history, making OpenAI #1 for the first time, per Andon Labs. However, OpenAI's system card and Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki warn that CoT monitoring is progressively diminishing, as Astra can accomplish tasks without CoT and control its CoT better.