✦AI TRENDS

Where AI engineering is headed

Perspectives and analysis from our team on the trends shaping enterprise AI.

Analysis of major AI developments and what they mean for businesses building with AI, written by the team that builds AI products every day. Start with our look at GPT-6 Astra and the debate over whether AGI has arrived.

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Gemini 4 Carbon: Benchmarks, Pricing and How It Compares

Google's Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. Here is everything published so far: all 17 benchmarks in Google's table, the independent results that agree and disagree, pricing and cost per task, who can use it, and how it compares with GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5.

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GPT-6 Astra: Is This the Beginning of the AGI Era?

GPT-6 Astra just launched, and Nvidia's CEO says AGI has arrived. Here's what OpenAI's new model actually does, what the benchmarks show, and what Jensen Huang, Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis, Elon Musk, and Gary Marcus are saying about whether the AGI era is really here.