Model Mayhem, GPT-6 Astra, Why Nvidia Bought Hugging Face | Diet TBPN

**John Coogan** (0:01)
It's Model Mayhem, folks. It's Model Mayhem. We got tons and tons of new AI model releases. It's a great week to be into AI.
I think all the lab leaders, they got together, they said, you know what? People just love AI. Let's give them more. Even more, even more. Let's all team up to launch new AI for them the same week so that everyone has something just to be happy about.

**Jordi Hays** (0:23)
That's right, that's right.

**John Coogan** (0:24)
We got Anthropic, Fable 5.1. We got MuSpark 1.3. We got Gemini 3.8 Flash. OpenAI's T's and Astra is a GPT-6. There's a 6 where the S goes in one of the videos. People will figure it out, but the model mayhem is continuing. Everyone got back from their long summers, their vacations. They said, we got to launch something new.
It's time to ship. We got to update this stuff.

**Jordi Hays** (0:50)
And Grok, Claude and OpenAI were all down this morning. So many people thought Astra might have escaped.

**John Coogan** (0:59)
Is there a deflock moment for AI, maybe? What do you think is going on?

**Jordi Hays** (1:02)
Possibly.

**John Coogan** (1:03)
Do we actually understand why all of the different models went down at the same time? Because it's easy if it's like AWS went down and it took down a bunch of stuff.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:11)
Yeah, it was East, I think it was US East one.

**John Coogan** (1:15)
Why is Gemini down then?

**Jordi Hays** (1:16)
No, no, Gemini wasn't down.

**John Coogan** (1:18)
Oh, Gemini was never down. Oh, okay, okay. Amazon, clearly very critical to the global internet.
Good luck to the folks over at Amazon who are fighting the good fight.

**Jordi Hays** (1:29)
Couple big announcements. One, it's Chamath's birthday.

**John Coogan** (1:33)
It is.

**Jordi Hays** (1:33)
Big 5-0.

**John Coogan** (1:34)
Should we sing full happy birthday?

**Jordi Hays** (1:36)
I think full happy birthday. Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday to you.

**John Coogan** (1:44)
Happy birthday dear Chamath.

**Jordi Hays** (1:47)
Happy birthday to you.

**John Coogan** (1:50)
Fantastic.

**Jordi Hays** (1:51)
And almost.

**John Coogan** (1:52)
All-in conference is coming to Los Angeles, I believe. Couple weeks, very excited.

**Jordi Hays** (1:56)
Still waiting for our invites. Still waiting for our invites.

**John Coogan** (2:00)
I think we've been invited to pay and go if you want to go.

**Jordi Hays** (2:03)
Good to know. Equally important.

**John Coogan** (2:05)
Yes.

**Jordi Hays** (2:05)
TBPN's Road to Christmas.

**John Coogan** (2:08)
How many days we got? 112 days out.

**Jordi Hays** (2:11)
112 days out.

**John Coogan** (2:11)
112 days.

**Jordi Hays** (2:12)
I gotta say, it's feeling like it's going a little slow.

**John Coogan** (2:16)
Yeah.

**Jordi Hays** (2:19)
I wish I was feeling more pace.

**John Coogan** (2:20)
Okay, think about it this way. We're only 13 days away from double digits. That's a big moment. That's a moment everyone's gonna be talking about on the Road to Christmas. Yes. When we get to 99 days till Christmas, that's when you can start a countdown.

**Jordi Hays** (2:32)
That's big.

**John Coogan** (2:33)
If you get a really big advent calendar, you can basically start that. Let me give you the roundup on the model mayhem that's going on. So, Anthropic Launch, Claude Fable 5.1 alongside the restricted Claude Mythos 5.1, Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash and a cybersecurity focused version, that's good news. Meta released MuSpark 1.3. So, it might not be that much of a surprise that Anthropic seems to have the strongest model of the three with Fable 5.1 scoring 66 on the artificial intelligence index. That is the bar chart that everyone has been posting in this cycle. It feels like we're sort of maybe getting to the end of the benchmark era. It feels like when these models are released, it's much better to solve a novel math problem or do something else.
Pelican on the bicycle is still one of my favorites. I love that one.

**Jordi Hays** (3:26)
But it changes everything.

**John Coogan** (3:28)
It does, but the benchmarks, they've been accusations of bench hacking, odd, hard to interpret.

**Jordi Hays** (3:33)
I just think people have very, very low trust in benchmarks.

**John Coogan** (3:37)
They do.

**Jordi Hays** (3:37)
At this point, everyone has had enough experience using various models. They have their own sort of internal benchmark.

**John Coogan** (3:43)
And so the demos of like, I built this game, I did this thing with it. And then also just the trusted voices of people who use a bunch of these models and they kind of give you the breakdown of what they like, what they don't. That has been where people lean a lot more. But the artificial intelligence, the artificial analysis intelligence index, this bar chart that you see, has been a good way to kind of compress down a bunch of benchmarks into one meta benchmark. So, Fable 5.1 got the highest result ever on the index. The scores also have Opus 5, which got 63, and Fable, which got a 62 Anthropic says, Fable 5.1 is also cheaper and more efficient made possible by an improved caching system. It should make ordinary workloads 25% cheaper and long-horizon agentic jobs 45% cheaper, the company says. That's good news. And as Ben Thompson pointed out, Anthropic is also sort of dropping its no zero data retention policy, which there was a whole new cycle around a few weeks ago. People were saying, why is Fable not taking off in adoption? It's a really great model. And there were a bunch of different explanations. One of them was companies demand zero data retention. They don't want closed source AI labs to be hoovering up their private information.