Nerd Snipe with Theo and Ben

Theo & Ben are back this week to talk all about how Meta's Muse Wonder is here to impress and it seems like Google still can't make a frontier model! We're breaking it all down, including the random appearance of the Tesla Roadster!

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Timestamps:
0:00 Gemini Fanboys Intro
4:31 Gemini 4 Argon Benchmarks vs Reality
16:27 Google's Pricing and Falling Behind
20:30 Grok 4.7 vs Gemini 4
25:01 Google Book and Z Fold Android Pain
36:40 Music Piracy and Computer Use
49:18 Anthropic's Growth and Vibe Coding
59:19 Can AI Replace Human Taste
1:28:17 DeepSeek 1017 and Open Weights
1:34:58 Roadster Flying Car and Wrap Bet
1:51:30 Hunting Tedious Work with Agents

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With OpenAI’s new $500 plan lands alongside reduced subscription value, Theo and Ben explain why cheaper tokens aren’t making DevDay feel like a win, T3 Code's new Orchestrator setup, and more!

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Timestamps:
00:00 OpenAI Dev Day
07:31 T3 Code & Claude Code
20:51 Orchestration V2
30:03 Autoresearch & agent workflows
47:18 AI pricing & API costs
1:19:16 Claude Code & T3 updates
1:35:13 Opus 5.5 vs. GPT-6.1
1:54:24 Dots & proactive AI
2:01:59 More Dev Day features
2:11:30 Grok in Tesla

Theo and Ben break down a packed week of AI releases, from Opus 5.5's insane release to Grok 4.7 falling short of the hype. They then dig into why post-training matters, where Jev, GPT-6 Sol, and Luna fit, and more!

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
3:18 GPT-6 Sol & Luna
14:58 Grok 4.7
38:47 Jev explained
52:48 Why model routing fails
1:05:06 Opus 5.5
1:26:17 Pricing & usage limits
1:34:23 Building games with Opus
1:41:10 Porting TypeScript to Rust
1:48:57 Agent workflows & testing

Theo & Ben break down Jacob Coxon's resignation after three years in pretraining at OpenAI and Anthropic—and his warning that both labs are racing toward AGI and gambling with our lives—along with Dario's latest blog post about pacing the frontier and how Apple's iPhone Duo could have ruined app development (if AI didn't exist).

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
2:53 New iPhones
22:24 Apple and Carriers
32:38 Astra’s Reliability
47:55 Codex Usage and Caching
1:19:44 Anthropic Resignation
1:38:38 Pacing the Frontier
1:40:02 Embedded AI Evaluators
1:43:10 The Hugging Face Hack
2:02:29 React Native Debate
2:09:18 Fast Inference Tradeoffs
2:12:40 Democratic AI Coordination
2:18:22 China and Global Pacing

Theo & Ben break down their latest thoughts on how Astra and Fable 5.1's releases have changed the way they work, how they interact in T3 Code, and then circle back to the latest with Codex usage limits, Gemini 3.8 Flash, Muse Spark 1.3, and the growing gap between model benchmarks and real coding workflows.

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
04:57 Gemini 3.8 Flash
14:48 Muse Spark & small models
22:08 AI subscriptions
34:14 GPT-6 Astra launch & pricing
56:04 Rate limits & autonomous coding
1:10:14 Fable 5.1
1:23:23 AI design & 3D demos
1:40:53 Astra vs. Fable: Which to use?