Everything George Cameron said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Cameron: General model intelligence does not correlate with hallucination rates
“One interesting aspect is that we've found that there's not really a, not a strong correlation between intelligence and hallucination rate. That's to say that the smarter the models are in a generalist sense isn't correlated with their ability to, when they do…”
Models perform better in custom agent harnesses than native web chatbots
“And what's really interesting is that if you compare, for instance, Claude, 4.5 Opus using the Claude web chatbot, it performs worse than the model in our Agentic harness. And so in every case, the model performs better in our agentic harness than its web chat…”
Cameron: Models perform better with minimal tools than rigid frameworks
“I think where we're getting to is that these models have gotten smart enough, they've gotten better, better tools that they can perform better when just given a minimalist set of tools and let them run, let the model Control the agentic workflow rather than us…”
Cameron: Model performance correlates with total parameters, not active parameters
“We, in our benchmark, see a lot of performance correlated more with total parameters than active, and not that correlated with how sparse like the models are. Our accuracy benchmark is part of a omniscience. It's very correlated with total. It's not correlated…”
Frontier models are cheaper for agentic tasks because they require fewer turns
“Interestingly, in Tau Tau Two Bench Telecom, it's cheaper to run, you know, on a per token basis, more expensive models, like a GBD five, compared to some smaller open source models, because the some of the GBD five, for instance got to the answer faster. And …”
George Cameron: Mixtral 8x7B transformed the landscape for serverless inference providers
“We had Mixtrel A times seven B and it was a key. Like a open source model that really changed the landscape and opened up people's eyes to other serverless inference providers and thinking about speed, thinking about cost.”
Cameron: Inference economics incentivize larger, sparser AI models over dense architectures
“It's, I think, less about total parameters in many cases when thinking about inference costs and more around number of active parameters, and so there's a bit of an incentive towards larger, sparser models.”
Gemini 3 Pro performs poorly on GDPval-AA benchmark evaluator tasks
“One data point there is that even as the, as an evaluator, Gemini three pro interestingly doesn't do actually that well in GDP val AA.”
Cameron: Turn count will become a major AI benchmarking metric
“I think number of turns is, is going to be a metric that we're going to be talking about a lot more. And I think it'll be something that people want to really start to think about a lot more.”
Artificial Analysis open-sources minimalist agent harness Stirrup on GitHub
“We released that on, on GitHub yesterday. It's called Stirrup, so if people want to check it out, and it's a great you know, base for, you know, generalist building a generalist agent.”
AI2's OLMo 3 32B leads Artificial Analysis's 18-point Openness Index
“It's out of 18 currently. And so we've got an openness index page, but essentially these are points. You get points for being more open across these different categories and the maximum you can achieve is 18. So AI two with their extremely open OMO three, 32 B…”