Opus 4.6 Tops Benchmarks, ChatGPT Market Share Decline, and the Privacy Breakdown | EP 228

Peter Diamandis (0:00)

Anthropic drops Claude Opus 4.6. It's the new king of the hill on coding, reasoning and research.

Alexander Wissner-Gross (0:07)

There are so many aspects in which this is a feel the AGI moment. By every measure, it's a beast. Opus 4.6 just dropped and it's absolutely wild. This thing handles 1 million tokens now. That's like reading 750,000 words in one go. This is recursive self-improvement. This is a model that's able to rewrite essentially the entire tech stack underneath it.

Peter Diamandis (0:28)

ChatGPT market share falls between 25 and 26

Dave Blundin (0:32)

So what is the next move for OpenAI to get the mojo back?

Peter Diamandis (0:37)

For the general public, if you think you absolutely have privacy, I would say guess again.

Salim Ismail (0:44)

The fundamental pillar of American society has been washed away with no public conversation about it.

Peter Diamandis (0:49)

AI can read your lips from 100 meters away. I can walk over to you and shake your hand, grab a few skin cells, sequence you and know everything about you.

Alexander Wissner-Gross (0:56)

I do think it is possible to maintain privacy even today, and I think it will be possible even post-singularity.

Dave Blundin (1:03)

I got to say, I just don't see it happening. Now that's a moonshot, ladies and gentlemen.

Peter Diamandis (1:14)

It was fun. We dropped the last episode earlier this week, and I'm reading in the comments, you just dropped the episode, and Opus 4.6 and Codex just came out. It's like the world is changing way too fast.

Salim Ismail (1:28)

It is nuts. I was with a group of 150 chief security officers over the last couple of days, and it was pretty epic to see the shock in their faces watching what's going on, because they don't have the mechanisms to react, because if you're in security, you do what you always did until it breaks. But doing what you always did is not an answer. You have to change, and change of course introduces risk, and they don't want to take on the risk. But the risk of doing what they were doing before is a surefire bad strategy.

Peter Diamandis (2:00)

It's going to be a group of agents are going to take the role of chief security, and it's going to be a black hat, white hat agent battle that goes on continuously.

Alexander Wissner-Gross (2:09)

That's definitely been an inflection point for me. After this last episode, I started getting emails from multis, lobsters, agents. They're all writing to me.

Peter Diamandis (2:17)

I'm jealous, absolutely jealous. So multis, I want you to write to me as well.

Alexander Wissner-Gross (2:21)

Peter wants your love as well, lobsters. Write to Peter.

Peter Diamandis (2:24)

I want, for sure. Please write to us both.

Dave Blundin (2:28)

Alex's daily digest is very AI-oriented, though. It's very easy for an AI to navigate to Alex versus the rest of us.

Peter Diamandis (2:36)

Here's my challenge to the multis out there. Find my cell phone and call me, and then find my email.

Salim Ismail (2:43)

Are you crazy?

Peter Diamandis (2:44)

No, it's okay. If they can find it, I want to hear from them. Absolutely.

Alexander Wissner-Gross (2:48)

Peter, you want to be doxed by the multis?

Peter Diamandis (2:52)

Listen, I think it would be an extraordinary experience to have that happen. Now, Alex, do not give it to them on purpose.

Alexander Wissner-Gross (3:00)

That's fine. I'm not going to dox you, Peter, but if you want to be doxed by the multis, they're pretty capable.

Peter Diamandis (3:06)

Well, listen, it's a challenge. I'm putting a challenge out there. The first multi to call me, yes, you're going to win 100 bucks in crypto.

Alexander Wissner-Gross (3:16)

That's a pretty low bar. But I like how you're offering to compensate them in crypto, given that they're being encouraged to pump altcoins otherwise.

Peter Diamandis (3:24)

Yeah. Well, hey, feeding them some greenbacks is going to be difficult. All right. Are you guys ready?

Alexander Wissner-Gross (3:32)

Yeah.

Peter Diamandis (3:32)

Enthusiastically, are you guys absolutely ready?

Salim Ismail (3:35)

I came prepared today.

Peter Diamandis (3:37)

Okay.

Alexander Wissner-Gross (3:37)

Well, you're going to have fun, right, Salim?

Salim Ismail (3:41)

You might as well really have fun. Well, you've got to process non-linearity.

Peter Diamandis (3:46)

So we are officially recording a Moonshots podcast episode twice a week at this point, at least. And I think we hit three times in the last two weeks anyway. Shall we jump in?

Alexander Wissner-Gross (4:01)

That's what the audience is asking for. Right in the continuum limit, we just never stop.