Peter Gostev

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Developer Peter Gostev had Astra generate a fully walkable 3D town based on the style of Van Gogh paintings.

But Astra isn't painting from the ether.

It relies heavily on existing databases.

OpenAI cut GPT-6 prices in half and also released two new models, and Meta AI passed GPT, ChatGPT in the App Store as the number one downloaded app in the fastest time ever, all in one week.

Plus, we had Meta Connect, we had Groq release, we had Gemini come back.

It's, it's a big, big, big, big show, and I would love to welcome my host, uh, Peter Gosteve, co-host, uh, Wolfram Ravenwolf from, uh, France.

Peter, how are you doing, sir? How was your week?

My week's been good.

OpenAI launched GPT-6 Sol and Luna, and Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5 as the model race continues to wage on.

I want to bring on Peter Gostev, AI capability lead at Arena, for his thoughts on both of these releases.

Peter, welcome back to the show.

It's great to have you here.

Welcome Wolfram Ravenwolf.

Welcome Peter Gostev.

And hello to everybody who's already tuning in.

It's all about bringing AI changes to you.

OpenAI's Thomas Ricard wrote, "Astra is very good at 3D modeling," and then showed a walkthrough of how he built a demo house walkthrough for their blog post.

Arita's Peter Gostev used Astra in Blender to recreate a famous Apple announcement video of Craig Federighi doing some weird parkour moves.

Now Blender, which is a 3D creation program, was all over Astra related posts.

Alex Oliver showed its capability and persistence by building a photorealistic bat in Blender, saying, "It just kept going until I ran out of tokens." Yunfan Yi modeled the house tour use case that had been on the OpenAI blog post, writing, "Give it a Zillow listing.

What is interesting to you is that this is part two of the longest episode we've ever recorded.

Part one is... summarizing the insane week in the eye with three other frontier models fable 5.1 etc and world models and this episode is dedicated specifically to gpt 5.6 astra so if you care about the rest of the news check out the other episode in this episode peter gostev and ryan carson who came back on the show uh both got early access to the model and shared their experience with us we also read through a bunch of examples and reactions from folks the vibes are off the chain and i can't wait to play with this model and have you play with this model and tell us what you think enjoy the rest of the show and we'll see you here next week Hello and...

All right.

I'm so excited.