# Frontier Models Are Gaining Vision, Positioning, and Taste by Emad Mostaque > "If you use [Anthropic’s] new Opus, all of a sudden it can do amazing 3D scenes and photorealistic water and generate entire songs. [Google’s] Astra is the same: it suddenly got eyes. It suddenly had a sense of positioning and taste." > **— Emad Mostaque**, *Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu, 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Recording and precise locator:** [7:56](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsdcF7EEvhM&t=476s) — Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu, 2026. - **Exact reconciled source object:** “If you use [Anthropic’s] new Opus, all of a sudden it can do amazing 3D scenes and photorealistic water and generate entire songs. [Google’s] Astra is the same: it suddenly got eyes. It suddenly had a sense of positioning and taste.” - **Editorial status:** The poster preserves the source-faithful object, including visible bracketed repairs and omissions where present. - **Reconciled source dossier:** [[research/AI Is Now So Good They Will Pay You to Quit|AI Is Now So Good They Will Pay You to Quit]] preserves transcript order, speaker attribution, editorial conventions, and the surrounding argument. - **Weekly promotion dossier:** [[research/Weekly Reminder Hunt - 2026-10-02|Weekly Reminder Hunt — October 2, 2026]] records why this object was selected for permanent promotion. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Gigawatt Is the New Measure of War|The Gigawatt Is the New Measure of War]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Emad Mostaque|Emad Mostaque]] - [[wiki/Consumer AI|Consumer AI]] - [[wiki/Cognitive Labor|Cognitive Labor]] - [[wiki/AI Distribution|AI Distribution]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "If you use [Anthropic’s] new Opus, all of a sudden it can do amazing 3D scenes and photorealistic water and generate entire songs. [Google’s] Astra is the same: it suddenly got eyes. It suddenly had a sense of positioning and taste." — Emad Mostaque, Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-mostaque-frontier-models-are-gaining-vision-positioning-taste ```