The Week We Hit 96% Toward AGI: Ninja Robots, Brain-Like AI & GeoGuessr on SteroidsAGI just jumped again — to 96%, according to Alan’s conservative countdown — and this week delivered some of the most surreal breakthroughs yet.

In this episode, Dylan breaks down the moment where everything in AI seemed to accelerate at once:

• Google’s adaptive nested-learning architecture that lets AI learn while thinking
  

• Gemini 4’s potential to become a “train once, learn forever” model
  

• China’s humanoid robot that side-flips away from arrows like a movie stunt double
  

• New hyper-realistic video-game mods that blur the line between gameplay and reality
  

• Autonomous sanitation robot parades in Shenzhen
  

• NVIDIA’s hybrid diffusion–autoregressive model that could make LLMs 5× faster
  

• Johns Hopkins’ research showing which tweaks make AI more “brain-like”
  

• GeoVista, an AI agent that can zoom, pan, and reason its way through Street View
  

• NY’s proposed law forcing websites to reveal when AI sets personalized prices
  

It’s a rapid-fire tour through the most important—and strangest—advances happening at the edge of the singularity.

If you want the smartest, fastest weekly AI briefing, this is the one.