Waking the dragon…
The cast
Today's scoreboard

The dragon is a rumor. The numbers are real: Intelligence Index, live from airace.lol.

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A rumor, staged as a boss fight

The scoreboard is live from airace.lol

What you are looking at

The timeline says Google's next model will go toe to toe with Fable and Astra. Nobody has a number for it yet, so here it is the way the memes draw it: one enormous golden dragon, and three small ones that have stopped moving.

The honest bit

The big dragon is a rumor. It has no score, so its bar on the board is a question mark. The three small dragons are real: each is that lab's best model today on the Intelligence Index, and right now they are the ones on top. Google's best released model is here too: it is the little sibling cheering behind the big one, and the last row on the board, so you can see how far the rumor would have to jump.

Three scenes

1 is the boss fight, with today's real scores. 2 is the same dragon with three heads, all of them silly. 3 is two heads that mean it and one that does not. Scenes 2 and 3 are posing: nothing in them is a score.

Play with it

The cast is yours. The card at the bottom left lists every tag on stage: tap a lab chip to pick another lab from the airace roster, type any name, and in scenes 2 and 3 pick each head's face. Surprise me deals a random cast. It stays in your browser; reset puts the default cast back. The scoreboard keeps the real names either way.

Click the ground and the dragon puts a bolt there. Both carved stones are links. Space makes it roar and slam. C hands the camera to the director, and your first drag takes it back.

Keys

1 2 3 scenes · Space roar · C cinematic cameras · R reset the view · T tilt-shift · / hide the interface · ' render tuning · drag to orbit · right-drag to pan · scroll to zoom · WASD to move, Q E to turn, hold ⇧ for faster.