4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
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The speaker believes most models—and possibly all models—still cannot meaningfully solve the games, while allowing that models can solve some individual games.

Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026

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“but honestly like most models still can't really do or i don't actually think any models can solve these games very meaningfully like there are some games that they can i think i've seen astra be able to solve the kirby game and we also for this benchmark we intentionally designed a really minimal harness and i will get to this point about harnesses because i think there's a whole conversation to be had about like what is the value of a harness like what is even the”
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