Is this AGI? I don't think I can score 100% on ARC AGI.

The blog post: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-avo-reaches-100-on-...

Using Claude Opus 5, but it can use others:

AVO is also designed to operate across frontier models. While our full public-set result used Claude Opus 5, we additionally paired AVO with GPT-5.6 Sol on a challenging subset of games. In these limited experiments, Sol reached matched levels faster in wall-clock time in several cases, while Opus used fewer environment actions in matched-level comparisons. These preliminary results suggest complementary operating profiles across models, and we leave a broader systematic comparison to future work

Now we’re talking

The next year is going to be wild folks

AVO: Agentic Variation Operators for Autonomous Evolutionary Search

https://arxiv.org/html/2603.24517v1

I thought ARC-AGI-3 was explicitly a test of raw model performance excluding the harness? Adding the harness back in doesn't tell us anything new. We've known that agents are capable of long horizon reasoning with sufficient harnesses. GPT-4(?) was capable of beating Pokemon 18 months ago but models only became capable of beating it without a harness in the last six months...?

None of the tweets, nor the press release, seems to mention how long time it actually took E2E to complete the evaluation, but they do mention it took "12% fewer actions" compared to just Opus 5 without AVO. Feels a bit suspicious they don't break down the timing involved, looking at the diagram from the press release, it gives the impression there is a lot of machinery here, and given they claim fewer actions, each action must be more carefully considered, doesn't it?

Curious to read more about it though, seems the paper for it is here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.24517, I'm not sure I understand if it's better than just Codex with a /goal, as they talk about "can discover performance-critical micro-architectural optimizations" but leave Codex alone for a day or two and you'll get the same results without doing "additional autonomous adaptation" at all.