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Sam Altman’s Attack, Amazon vs. Starlink, and What Opus 4.7 Actually Means | #248

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

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**Podcast:** Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

## Participants

- **Peter Diamandis** (PHD Ventures)
- **Salim Ismail** (None)
- **Dave Blundin** (None)
- **Alex Wissner-Gross** (Reified)
- **Dr. Dawn Musalem** (Fountain Life)

## Transcript

A 20-year-old Texan threw a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's San Francisco house. Suspect was on something called the official Paws AI Discord server list. The state of Maine passed the first ever statewide data center ban in the United States. Social unrest coming as a result of people's fear and people not getting jobs. Only 23% of the public is optimistic about AI. 99% of the people you bump into on the street are underreacting and unaware.

If you don't want to use it, fine. Let other people use it and get the benefits of it. Anthropics Opus 4.7 dropped. It is moderately interesting. Is it mythically interesting? No. The new guidance is use prompts. Use prompts for everything. The problem is it's sort of an odd-burning effect where I want mythos access. Amazon and Apple team up to compete against Starlink.

I would bet that Apple in short-term ends up pitting Amazon, the new global star owner, against SpaceX Starlink. Elon does not stand still. So as we started recording this episode today, Anthropics Opus 4.7 dropped. So we wanted to do a quick pickup, insert it here at the top of the show, to discuss what is Opus 4.7?

How does it compare to 4.6? Mythos. Of course, we're here with our resident genius on all benchmarks, Alex Wissner-Gross. It is moderately interesting. Is it mythically interesting? No. Is it incrementally interesting? No. It's a solid release. I've been using it for the past few hours.

I ask it to... My standard go-to, as loyal viewers of the pod may recall, is asking it to generate a cyberpunk first-person shooter game design that's visually stunning. And it generated something that was visually stunning. The benchmarks are interesting. The bio benchmarks in particular are interesting.

It's a solid release. It's probably, if I had to guess, a further post-training of some existing model. Could be a distillation of a larger model. Could be a distillation of Mythos, potentially. Not quite clear. But I would say it is a solid point release of Opus. And the problem almost is an expectation anchoring one, having seen the eval results for Mythos, or Mythos as you like to say. I like calling it Mythos, yes.

The problem is, it's sort of an Osborne effect, where I want Mythos access. Give me Mythos access. And then when you compare the Opus 4.7 benchmarks with Mythos, you feel, I don't know... Cheated. Underwhelmed. I was going to go with on we, but you can pick your own superlative here. So if you look at migration, so I think it was particularly instructive to look at migration notes between 4.6 and 4.7.

The biggest change that I could see is that all of the dials and hyperparameters that used to be present in 4.6 and earlier, like temperature for example, there's no temp...

Sam Altman’s Attack, Amazon vs. Starlink, and What Opus 4.7 Actually Means | #248

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