On Friday, NVIDIA published a result that will be in a sales deck near you within a month. It took an AI model that scores just over 30 percent on a hard interactive test and drove it to 100 percent. The model never changed. Nothing was retrained. What changed was the scaffolding around it, which the industry calls a harness.

It is a genuine engineering achievement. It is also the clearest illustration yet of why the AI performance numbers arriving in procurement no longer measure what buyers think they measure.

In this episode, Stephen Forte covers:

• What NVIDIA's AVO system actually did: all 183 levels across the 25 environments of the ARC-AGI-3 public set, a benchmark that drops an AI into a video game it has never seen and asks it to work out the rules on its own. The model inside was Claude Opus 5, which scores 30.1 ...