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So Meta just announced a new "superintelligence" unit, and honestly, at this point I'm convinced the only superintelligent thing about Meta is their ability to rebrand the same AI hype every six months. But hey, at least they're consistent.

Welcome to AI This Week, where we break down the latest in artificial intelligence without the corporate buzzword bingo. I'm your host, and today we're diving into a week that had more AI announcements than a tech conference expo hall. Let's get into it.

First up, OpenAI is making some serious moves down under with their "AI in Australia Economic Blueprint." Now, when a company releases an "economic blueprint" for an entire country, you know they're either really ambitious or really need new markets. The partnership with Mandala Partners promises to unlock AI's "full economic and social potential" for Australia. Which sounds great until you remember that OpenAI also just launched their "OpenAI for Government" initiative in the US. At this rate, they'll have blueprints for every continent by Christmas. Though I have to admit, an AI-powered blueprint is probably more reliable than most government planning documents.

Meanwhile, Google's been busy playing genetic detective with their new AlphaGenome model. This AI can predict regulatory variant effects in DNA, which is basically like having a really smart friend who can look at your genetic code and say "yeah, that's gonna cause problems." But here's the kicker - they're offering it via API, which means anyone with a credit card can now analyze genomes. I'm not saying this will go wrong, but I'm also not saying my 23andMe results are about to get a lot more interesting.

And speaking of Google, they also dropped Gemini Robotics On-Device, bringing AI to local robotic devices. Because apparently, we learned nothing from every robot movie ever made. The model promises "general-purpose dexterity and fast task adaptation," which sounds suspiciously like what they said about the last five robotics breakthroughs that are still sitting in labs somewhere. But hey, at least when our robot overlords take over, they'll be really good at adapting to new tasks. Like, say, world domination.

Now for our rapid-fire round, because this week had more AI news than a ChatGPT fever dream. Anthropic's Claude Code hit 115,000 developers and processes 195 million lines of code weekly. That's roughly equivalent to the entire codebase of Windows being processed every few days. Meta's new superintelligence unit is apparently becoming an "AI talent black hole" - which explains why Sam Altman called their hiring tactics "distasteful." Nothing says healthy competition like publicly calling your competitors distasteful. And on HuggingFace, we've got everything from FLUX image generation to models with names like "DeepSeek-TNG-R1T2-Chimera" - because apparently, AI researchers have been watching too much Star Trek.

For our technical spotlight, let's talk about something called "answer matching" versus multiple choice for AI evaluation. Researchers found that letting AI models give free-form answers and then grading them with another AI works better than traditional multiple choice tests. Which makes sense - multiple choice has always been the academic equivalent of a participation trophy. But here's the beautiful irony: we're now using AI to grade AI, which means we're basically one step away from AI giving itself performance reviews. "Dear AI, how did AI do this quarter?" "Excellent question, AI. AI thinks AI deserves a promotion."

The research shows near-perfect agreement with human grading, which either means the AI is really good at grading, or humans and AI are equally bad at it. Either way, it's a step toward more authentic evaluation, assuming we can resist the urge to game the system - which, let's be honest, humans are excellent at.

And that's your AI week in review. From genetic fortune-telling to robot butlers to AI grading AI, we're living in interesting times. Next week, we'll probably have AI teaching AI to evaluate AI that grades AI. Until then, remember - the future is here, it's just unevenly distributed and occasionally writes poetry about being sentient. I'm your host, and this has been AI This Week.