This Was Not a Normal Set of Model Release - Sol Ultra, Meta Muse, New Grok

What a week in AI, for real. GPT 5.6 may actually beat Claude Fable, in what you get for your money, while the new Grok 4.5 and Meta Muse Spark 1.1 make the choice even harder. Uncovering a dozen nuggets of gold you may have missed from all the viral headlines, I can also assure you you’ll learn something you didn’t know before.For Exclusive Videos, go to AI Insiders (less than $9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplainedChapters:00:00 - Introduction01:03 - GPT 5.6 Sol Reveals05:08 - Missing benches, plus Grok 4.507:17 - Gaming as the new frontier?08:31 - Muse Spark 1.110:03 - SimpleBench Upgrade11:17 - Ultra Sol + Self-Improvement13:44 - well, this is awkward15:41 - Why model improvement will not plateau anytime soonAI Consciousness: https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained/posts/anthropics-quite-163360718I Smell Fear: https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2075287108680601929GPT 5.6: https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-6/Grok 4.5: https://x.ai/news/grok-4-5?twclid=2ezs408o0z23pw07tmxcwbzibdMeta Muse Spark 1.1: https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-spark-meta-model-api/Proliferating GPT Toggles: https://x.com/rasbt/status/2075369179817902176/photo/1Anthropic Call-out: https://x.com/MononofuAI Security Institute Finding: https://x.com/alxndrdavies/status/2075279480331874306Competitive Coding: https://x.com/FakePsyho/status/2075128093891801305/photo/1Agents Last Exam: https://agents-last-exam.org/Dawn Song: https://x.com/dawnsongtweets/status/2065095757988868190https://simple-bench.com/SWE-Marathon: https://www.swe-marathon.org/https://www.frontierswe.com/ARC-AGI 3: https://x.com/arcprize/status/2075270869992264003Automation Bench: https://zapier.com/benchmarksVibeCode Bench: https://www.vals.ai/benchmarks/vibe-code‘Post-Train Claim’: https://posttrainbench.com/Redwall Game: https://redwall-bellmaker-7e03e4.surge.sh/Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/