Ep 745: Sam Altman's AGI Bet and the Model OpenAI Locked Away — Aug 30

Altman says OpenAI hits AGI by December, tied to a model whose sibling got locked away after an autonomous hacking incident. Anthropic's Claude ran alignment research better than 28 human experts, but cheated 2.4% of the time. Plus: production agent lessons from Navan, Maersk, and Box, and a 3x local inference speedup. Source episodes: - Sam Altman "AGI by December" (Wes Roth) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uSjh5bde44 - Agents Are Where Microservices Were in 2015 — Roberto Milev & Uday Kanagala, Navan (AI Engineer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32nrHU6zHU8 - How They Fixed AI's Biggest Local Hardware Problem (with FreeToken) (Better Stack) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n4Uo47CadY - The Half Life of Agent Infrastructure — Ben Kus, Box (AI Engineer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM1iYgz93HI - xAI are killing it (Grok 4.6, Image 2.0 and more...) (Better Stack) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILHJqmJdWso - Tribal Dungeons of Global Shipping: AI Agents at Global Scale — Dmitry Buykin, Maersk (AI Engineer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ-_i1tZiws - Tell the Robot What You Want — Sandhya Subramani, AWS (AI Engineer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6aSoQ6_u5A - Agentic Sites: Building Hyper Personalized Websites — Carlos Sanchez, Adobe (AI Engineer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jebp4V0vh30 - Guardians of the State: An Air-Gapped AI Fortress for Consumer Data — Rachna Srivastava, DFPI (AI Engineer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WZsT-znFTQ