Are you going to Shoptalk Fall in Nashville?
Have you RSVP’d for Nashville Sessions yet?
Because we haven’t announced our performers, but maybe we should give you a little preview of who’s taking the stage…
Between them:
🏆 5 Grammy nominations
🏆 Grammy winner
📈 14+ #1 hits
💿 Multiple 5x+ Platinum records
🔥 Songs with BILLIONS of streams
🎵 Hits recorded by some of the biggest artists in country music
And they’ll be playing those songs live, telling the stories behind them, in an intimate Nashville writers’ round.
Not a wild, noisy, packed happy hour.
Just hit songwriters, the songs you already know, and the stories behind how they were written.
Nashville Sessions
September 29 | 5–8 PM
WON x Polar Analytics
Invitation only. Limited capacity.
If you’re coming to Shoptalk Fall, RSVP before we fill it.
Link in comments.
#ShoptalkFall
Astra anticipation is ramping up. If you've followed AI on X for a while, you get a sense for when the rumors are real.
Don't be surprised if it's released this week on Thursday.
Astra may be the first model that OpenAI is under-hyping.
Here are the most detailed statements that have been made publicly to give you a sense for what Astra is:
> First model treated as “critical” under OpenAI’s preparedness framework
> Greg Brockman: "Evals show significant jumps in agenting, coning, and cyber security."
> Solved 10 long-standing open problems across math, quantum physics and theoretical computer science
> roon re: agentic coding: “Astra is pretty remarkable”
> Training was paused for two weeks to focus on alignment
> Alex Heath: “Astra is trained to use software the way humans do.”
> Alex Heath from a closed door preview: “Astra coordinates multiple agents on math proofs, desktop software, slides, financial analysis. It's designed to run for days or weeks, remembers corrections, and collaborates with other agents and people. It operates software at a superhuman, very fast pace."
> Sam Altman: “This is the first model that can invent new things in a way that matters.”
The releases of Astra could happen this week, and if it does it will be a momentous moment not just for AI and technology, but for humanity itself.
🚨GPT Astra is going to be unbelievable
It will apparently be able to use a computer in a “super human” way, I can only imagine this will contribute to the push for autonomous research
Sam Altman also expects this to be the first model that actually invents new things that matter, so im expecting this to be the greatest jump in capability we have seen so far from an AI release
Ngl to you all Astra is going to be crazy
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🥷 New stealth model: Ox Alpha
Ox Alpha is a frontier model built for efficient coding, sustained agentic work, and real-world production use.
- 1M token context window
- Text, image, and video input
Try it now and share feedback to improve the model! https://t.co/tU5lmZrO5z
🥷 New stealth model: Ox Alpha
Ox Alpha is a frontier model built for efficient coding, sustained agentic work, and real-world production use.
- 1M token context window
- Text, image, and video input
Try it now and share feedback to improve the model! https://t.co/tU5lmZrO5z
@jarodsteffes It’s going to be difficult to find a tool to have the elegance of experience you want combined with the multisite aspect. You’ll need to give on one of those.