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Edition 025 — The model OpenAI refused to ship, a cheaper Sonnet, and AMD's $8.2B bet on worlds
OpenAI shelved GPT-6.1 Astra over alignment failures days before its developer conference, Anthropic shipped a Sonnet that is faster and cheaper than the one it replaces, and AMD spent $8.2 billion on Fei-Fei Li's World Labs. Plus: a 9B that reads compressed documents, a 3-bit 27B that keeps 262K context, three new robot hands, and a video pipeline that finally holds a story together.