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Ethan Mollick said he had Opus 5.5 generate a video using the prompt he uses when testing all AI image generation models, "an otter using wifi on a plane." The account appears in his article reviewing the exponential development of AI over the past 30 months. During the same period, on the day his new book Co-Existence was released, Mollick used charts to review the AI progress in the 30 months since the release of his previous book Co-Intelligence, and said the charts in that article were completed by Opus 5.5 in Claude Projects orchestrating multiple agents. Currently there is evidence showing that this video generation action occurred in the above-mentioned review context, with no subsequent developments yet.
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Ethan Mollick said he asked Opus 5.5 to generate an otter video
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Ethan Mollick reviews 30 months of AI development in charts
On the release day of his new book Co-Existence, Ethan Mollick used charts to review the AI progress in the 30 months since his previous book Co-Intelligence was published. He said that since GPT-4, 20 models have successively taken the top spot, and 180 models were stronger than GPT-4 at release, 19 of which can run on modern smartphones; the METR long-task benchmark showed that the amount of human work AI can complete increased from 4 minutes in 2024 to 17 hours in April 2026, and the benchmark was subsequently discontinued because it could no longer measure accurately. He proposed a third mode of collaboration beyond centaur and cyborg: conjurer, that is, summoning agents, assigning tasks, and evaluating results. The charts in this article were completed by Opus 5.5 in Claude Projects orchestrating multiple agents.