Travis Kalanick
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has surpassed OpenAI's O3 Pro, Google Gemini's 2.5 Pro as the most intelligent model.
This includes like seven different industry standard evaluation tests.
You can look it up, but reasoning, math, coding, all that kind of stuff.
This is, you know, book smarts, not necessarily street smart.
So it doesn't mean that these things can reason.
And obviously there was a little...
There was a little kerfluffle on X, formerly known as Twitter, where XAI got a little frisky and was saying all kinds of crazy stuff and needed to maybe be red teamed a little bit more decisively.
Many of you know Grok 4 was trained on Colossus.
That's that giant data center that Elon's been building.
And we showed the chart here at Chamath.
You sent us a link to the bitter lesson by Rich Sutton in the group chat.
That's the 2019 blog post.
We'll pull it up here for people to take a look at and we'll put it in the show notes.
Maybe just generally your reaction to both how quickly Elon has, and that chart showed it, how quickly Elon has caught up
And I don't think people expected him to take the lead, but here we are.
Just explain this concept one more time with a better lesson.
Hand-coding heuristics into the computer and saying, hey, here are specific openings in chess.
Yeah.
Yeah, use chess, right?
Yeah.