The Memo - 13/Apr/2026

To: US Govt, major govts, Microsoft, Apple, NVIDIA, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Tesla, Citi, Tencent, IBM, & 10,000+ more recipients… From: Dr Alan D. Thompson Sent: 13/Apr/2026 Subject: The Memo - AI that matters, as it happens, in plain English AGI: 97% ASI: 0/50 (no expected...

To: US Govt, major govts, Microsoft, Apple, NVIDIA, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Tesla, Citi, Tencent, IBM, & 10,000+ more recipients… From: Dr Alan D. Thompson Sent: 13/Apr/2026 Subject: The Memo - AI that matters, as it happens, in plain English AGI: 97% ASI: 0/50 (no expected movement until post-AGI)Prof Alex Tabarrok, Economist at George Mason University (9/Apr/2026): ‘Everyone goes to the negative possibility instead of to the positive possibility. Which doesn’t mean that we’re guaranteed, the transition could be bumpy, that’s for sure. The Industrial Revolution was bumpy. But I also think we need to think about more leisure as a good thing… No one’s complaining that, “Oh, we used to have so much more work to do, we used to be able to wash our clothes by hand, and now the machines have taken those jobs”… AI right now has a little bit of a bad publicity and image, but the moment that AI creates a medical breakthrough, I think that will go away. And I don’t think that’s at all unrealistic… [A cure for cancer] would be tremendous, absolutely tremendous, like living longer, better lives… It’s hard to imagine the future because it’s going to be much different than the past, but it’ll still be good.’Thanks to The Memo subscriber Sarah, who flagged that Grok recently found my analysis of Grok, and used it as a primary reference for the Grok article on Grokipedia. What a world...We published two special editions of The Memo this month, the first covering OpenAI’s industrial policy proposal of a 4-day work week (which experts say is equivalent to 20% unemployment, and a good thing post-AGI), and the second detailing the Claude Mythos announcement.At the end of this edition, I quote a long piece by Adelaide-born child prodigy and Fields Medal winner, Prof Terry Tao, on how all this current large language model stuff fits within our concept of human intelligence.The Models Table hit 800 model highlights with the recent announcement of Meta Muse.https://lifearchitect.ai/models-table/ContentsThe BIG Stuff (China 140T tok/day, Meta Muse, OpenAI Spud, 1st $1B AI company…)The Interesting Stuff (Claude Code leak, assassination notes, GPT-Image-2…)Policy (Public hospitals ready for AI, banks + Mythos, xAI sues AI regs, video games…)Toys to Play With (New history LLM, AI audio assistant, Claude train driver, LMCTFY…)Things I’ve Been Thinking About (AI and demon trains, Tao’s smart analogy…)Next (Roundtable…)The BIG StuffExclusive: Q1 2026 intelligence explosion projections confirmed by new Q1/Q2 data (Apr/2026)My output explosion analysis projections are tracking nicely, (and may have been conservative!), with two public news announcements reinforcing the projections:4/Apr/2026: Qwen3.6 alone hits 1T tok/day on OpenRouter (not counting other APIs and local installs).24/Mar/2026: China total model output hits 140T tok/day.As a reminder, all humans combined speak and write a total of ~176 trillion tokens/day. I forecast the daily output of all models combined will match this by Jun/2026, tripling to 600 trillion tokens by the end of 2026, and then 10×ing again to 6 quadrillion tokens by the end of 2027. Read more: https://lifearchitect.ai/output/The Memo features in recent AI papers by Microsoft and Apple, has been discussed on Joe Rogan’s podcast, and a trusted source says it is used by top brass at the White House. Across over 100 editions, The Memo continues to be the #1 AI advisory, informing 10,000+ full subscribers including RAND, Google, and Meta AI. Full subscribers have complete access to all 20+ AI analysis items in this edition!OpenAI chief teases Spud model, says it is worth 2 years of research and a major step toward AGI (2/Apr/2026) Read more

Source: Life Architect AI — Published April 13, 2026 at 03:47 UTC — Category: Models