Astra Reactions, Jobs Print, Cybercab Launch | Diet TBPN

**John Coogan** (0:02)
Big news in the AI world, obviously. Astra GPT-6 launched yesterday. We went through the blog post briefly. It went up mid show.
Bunch of impressive benchmarks. We talked about Arc AGI. We moved the goal posts because Arc AGI V3 is now saturated, which is particularly crazy because of how detailed those games are when you play them. The thing that stuck out to me though was watching the demos of people build 3D scenes in Blender using Astra. Clearly, a bunch of people got access to the model before and were able to fire off one prompt, maybe a few prompts. It feels like it's very, very capable to just fire up Blender and do a full task and model a whole world.

**Jordi Hays** (0:53)
That said, Matt Schumer, who had a couple of the most impressive examples, he has been talking about how the art of prompting is back.

**John Coogan** (1:03)
Oh, interesting.

**Jordi Hays** (1:05)
He had a very specific process where you have a loop. A manager agent and subagents. Yeah. It's still not as simple as just like, you can get a good output in one shot, but to get some of these really incredible outputs does take a little bit of refinement.

**John Coogan** (1:23)
Yeah. I'm sure a lot of that information will propagate across the internet as it already has. I'd love to pull up some of the images from, or the videos from the launch from folks who are actually test driving GPT-6 Astra. First, Sharif said, GPT-6 Astra recreated the Palace of Fine Arts in Blender. This is my favorite building in San Francisco because it was built for the World's Fair in 1914 I didn't know that.
Where the steam locomotive and telephone were showed off. Wow.
It was a time when technology gave us all a deep sense of optimism for the future. I feel like some of that sense has been lost since, certainly. But I hope models like Astra can help restore it and push us towards a more hopeful future. So if we can play that actual video, you can see. So I imagine that it pulls images from the internet. There's a whole bunch of obviously reference diagrams. There's a whole bunch of different ways that you could ground a 3D modeling exercise. You could even pull the blueprints. There might be free models out there.

**Jordi Hays** (2:25)
Yeah, there's probably architectural plans.

**John Coogan** (2:26)
And yeah, it's this odd thing where you could use an AI image generator because the AI image generators are knowledgeable about what the Palace of Fine Arts is. It could generate a bunch of images there. So there's all these different ways to triangulate it. And then you can also just go on. I think Sketchfab is one of the big free 3D model purveyors online. And so you could potentially go grab an actual 3D model build off of that per year scene. So there's all these different ways to solve a problem. And Astra seems to be good at actually going and doing it. There's a few more that we should look through. There's one comparison, since this is the new Pelican Bench, apparently. Same prompt, same goal of creating this fly-through video for a real estate scene. And this feels like something that could be useful. I've already seen on Zillow, there is the ability to re-style images. So if you're looking at a house on Zillow, you can see the interior photos, and then you can say, I'd like to re-decorate this in a modern style, or in a contemporary style, or in a colonial style. And it will go and use AI image generation on the back end to do that. It's only available on a fraction of Zillow listings. It's clearly some sort of feature that they need to turn on. But you could imagine this being something, especially for spec homes that are selling that maybe haven't been, that they don't have the budget to actually go do proper rendering, just lowering the cost, you get sort of a Jevons Paradox moment. There's another one from Thomas. He says, Astra is very good at 3D modeling, and the lighting is way better than this one.
This is what, this actually looks properly ray traced, properly lit, really thoughtfully designed. Maybe that's in the prompt. Maybe that's just the way this one turned out based on the photos. From a Blender scene to then an Unreal Engine 5 walkable experience, so everything becomes translatable. You'll be able to take your tweets, turn them into blog posts, turn them into videos, turn them into 3D games on Steam pretty soon.

**Jordi Hays** (4:26)
GTA style video games.