New Delhi, Sept. 13 -- A week is a long time in the world of AI. On 1 September, when Anthropic launched Fable 5.1, some people on my Instagram feed posted where they were when the advanced LLM dropped, as if it were a moon landing. Two days later, when OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, the same people called it a watershed moment, having seemingly forgotten about their own excitement from 48 hours ago.

By 6 September, Nvidia chief Jensen Huang had declared on X, in response to Astra, that AGI (artificial general intelligence) had arrived. The same day, OpenAI's own chief scientist Jakub Pachocki urged "extreme caution and voluntary slowdowns" in AI research and deployment, arguing that humanity is not prepared to handle the rapid rise in mac...