Is This the Best AI Model Right Now?

Last Humans in the Loop · Sep 30, 2026 · 1h 11m · transcript

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02:31 OpenAI releases GPT Sol and Luna

03:38 Claude Opus 5.5 lands — and feels dramatically better than prior Opus releases

04:30 Opus 5.5 posts a big coding jump over Sonnet 5

04:30 Grok 4.7 launches with a new emphasis on safety and cybersecurity

06:30 Qwen 4 announced with a massive 5–10 trillion parameter architecture

07:06 Why Gemini Flash still feels behind the frontier

08:30 Astra makes a huge jump on ZeroBench visual reasoning

09:13 AI capability costs are falling faster than almost any previous technology

10:50 Open-source Jev competitor Leia appears one week after Jev’s…