AI-Podden News - September

In this September AI news roundup, our host Ather Gattami sits down with Anders Arpteg to unpack the biggest developments across frontier models, autonomous systems, AI efficiency and the ongoing debate around AGI. The conversation covers OpenAI's Astra model and its Navier-Stokes breakthrough, the industry-wide shift toward smaller and more cost-efficient models, and why impressive benchmark gains still do not necessarily mean we are close to artificial general intelligence. They also discuss the growing importance of workflow automation and agentic products, recent advances in autonomous driving and physical AI, and why future progress may depend less on brute-force compute and more on new algorithms, architectures and better ways of measuring intelligence.