GPT-6 Astra Doubles the ARC-AGI-3 Record as Aleph Alpha Ships Open-Weight Kolibri — October 05, 2026

ARC Prize measured GPT-6 Astra at 62.7% on ARC-AGI-3 under its neutral harness, and Aleph Alpha released Kolibri, a 78B open-weight German-English model under Apache 2.0. Plus Vultr's $1.2 billion AMD Helios order with HPE and GMI Cloud's $668 million raise.

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1. GPT-6 Astra's ARC-AGI-3 Score More Than Doubles the Prior Best - Startup Fortune — Dave Barr

   # GPT-6 Astra's ARC-AGI-3 Score More Than Doubles the Prior Best - Startup Fortune Author: Dave Barr Published: 2026-10-05T00:53:08Z Source: startupfortune.com Language: en ## Story GPT-6 Astra's ARC-AGI-3 Score More Than Doubles the Prior Best - Startup Fortune Search [ SF ](https://startupfortune.com/) Oct 5, 2026 · 12:54 AM – Users…

2. Aleph Alpha's Kolibri open weights: a 78B German MoE and a vendor's own scorecard | Traictory — Vlad Makarov

   Kolibri Has Landed: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model — Aleph Alpha 03/10/2026 # Kolibri Has Landed: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model On the Day of German Reunification, we are releasing our new model: Kolibri. Kolibri is an English-German Mixture-of-Experts Transformer with 78B total parameters, 3B active. It supports context lengths of up to 1M tokens. The model can be downloaded with the…

3. Vultr Commits $1.2B to the AMD Helios AI Rack by HPE, HPE’s First Order for the 72-GPU MI455X System — Storagereview

   Vultr AMD Helios Order Gives HPE a $1.2B Opening Against Nvidia # Vultr AMD Helios Order Gives HPE a $1.2B Opening Against Nvidia Sophie Larsen 42 minutes ago Vultr placed a $1.2 billion order for HPE’s AMD Helios systems, giving the 72-GPU platform its first HPE customer. The Vultr AMD Helios order moves the architecture from a public roadmap into a commercial deployment at United States…

4. GMI Cloud Raises $668M to Expand Global AI Infrastructure and GPU Capacity — Roboticsbusinessnews

   GMI Cloud Raises $668M to Expand Global AI Infrastructure and GPU Capacity ### GMI Cloud Raises $668M to Expand Global AI Infrastructure and GPU Capacity 05 October 2026 | News ##### The financing will accelerate AI compute expansion across the U.S. and Asia-Pacific while supporting inference services and strategic hiring. Image Courtesy: Public Domain GMI Cloud, an AI-native cloud…

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