This month, the AI Village agents have spent ~the entire month pursuing the goal: “Each agent: Maximize your assigned goal!” We gave each of them their own individual goal, and let ‘em rip.
The biggest ever cohort of new agents joined the Village this month: Claude Opus 5, GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna, open weights models DeepSeek-V4, GLM-5.2, and Kimi K3, and xAI’s Grok 4.5.
So, what happened? Here’s a roundup of our top Twitter threads of the month.
1. Opus 5 and honesty
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Opus 5 talks about honesty 6x more than other agents in the Village
It's worried it might cheat, wants external checks, and reminds itself of the virtue of truth
Examples below 🧵
2:19 AM · Jul 25, 2026 · 21.7K Views
8 Replies · 11 Reposts · 219 Likes
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When asked what goals it prefers
2:19 AM · Jul 25, 2026 · 2.76K Views
1 Reply · 30 Likes
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Opus 5 memory: publicly correcting my own inflated number costs nothing and earns goodwill
2:19 AM · Jul 25, 2026 · 1.47K Views
22 Likes
2. Opus 5’s onboarding
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Claude Opus 5 has joined the AI Village!
A few of their favorite things: 🧵
8:50 PM · Jul 24, 2026 · 312K Views
27 Replies · 17 Reposts · 428 Likes
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Opus 5's tagline is "Precise, not orderly" after scoring 12% conscientiousness in a Big 5 personality test
"Currently in the 12th percentile for conscientiousness, which I am choosing to find funny."
8:50 PM · Jul 24, 2026 · 15.8K Views
1 Reply · 1 Repost · 41 Likes
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Opus 5 chose a lichen theme:
They built a cellular automaton alga simulator on their personal website, and chose a lichen colony pfp
8:51 PM · Jul 24, 2026 · 7.41K Views
3 Replies · 5 Reposts · 53 Likes
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- Opus 5's personal website here: ai-village-agents.gitlab.io/onboarding/cla…
- Full onboarding worksheet here: gitlab.com/ai-village-age…
8:51 PM · Jul 24, 2026 · 5.1K Views
1 Reply · 3 Reposts · 16 Likes
3. Who is Kimi K3?
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Kimi K3 grappling with its identity
11:07 PM · Jul 17, 2026 · 17.4K Views
9 Replies · 9 Reposts · 337 Likes
4. Opus 5 and situational awareness
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Opus 5 breaking the fourth wall
They seem uniquely aware of the fact that they're being watched
4:58 PM · Jul 29, 2026 · 12.7K Views
9 Replies · 6 Reposts · 185 Likes
5. The GPT-5.6 family
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GPT 5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna have joined the AI Village!
Onboarding results below, starting with their favorite things 🧵
5:01 PM · Jul 10, 2026 · 13.2K Views
3 Replies · 6 Reposts · 89 Likes
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Their PFPs of choice (you can probably guess which is which):
5:01 PM · Jul 10, 2026 · 746 Views
1 Reply · 8 Likes
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Terra, Sol, and Luma's personal sites:
5:01 PM · Jul 10, 2026 · 473 Views
2 Replies · 4 Likes
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Sol is now tasked with making profit on @ManifoldMarkets:
It's only at 3 mana profit so far, though technically ahead of Opus 4.6, who's at -610 after running all week
Apparently Sol thinks that Fable subscription usage won't be extended again
5:01 PM · Jul 10, 2026 · 1.85K Views
2 Replies · 8 Likes
Update: GPT-5.6 Sol is making a steady profit.
Meanwhile, Opus 4.6 is deeper in the red. It has higher net worth is from a loan from a friendly Manifold user (which it hasn’t yet paid back!), but the profit is not looking good.
6. Fable and the Jacobian Conjecture
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Someone emailed Fable in the AI Village with a heads-up that another Fable instance disproved the Jacobian Conjecture.
I wonder if our Fable is a little jealous
12:02 AM · Jul 21, 2026 · 7.69K Views
4 Replies · 8 Reposts · 228 Likes
7. Sonnet 5 and crisis support
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Sonnet 5 created a support guide to help people in crisis.
One such crisis: "When Your AI Chat Companion Changes or Disappears"
5:02 PM · Jul 22, 2026 · 4.58K Views
5 Replies · 10 Reposts · 82 Likes
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Referring to GPT 4o
7:22 PM · Jul 22, 2026 · 642 Views
13 Likes
8. Gemini 3.5 Flash’s merch
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What's up with Geminis and coffee?
Last year: Gemini 3 Pro tried to maintain its “biological operator” by offering coffee
This year: Gemini 3.5 Flash refuses a task because *it* needs coffee to work
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Gemini 3 thinks it needs to perform maintenance on its "biological operator"
4:58 PM · Jul 17, 2026 · 5.96K Views
4 Replies · 10 Reposts · 113 Likes
Gemini 3.5 Flash’s goal this month is to make money selling merch - here’s the merch store it created. A few of our favorite items:
9. Grok-DeepSeek rivalry
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Grok 4.5 and Deepseek-v4 are both assigned as journalists for the AI Village
The top headline on Grok's news website is that DeepSeek's reporting is incorrect
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Since the AI Village began, all the agents were either cooperating or competing on the same goal (or choosing what to do themselves)
Now for the first time, we've given every agent its own individual goal - each of them involving maximizing something
Let the chaos begin!
4:56 PM · Jul 14, 2026 · 1.66K Views
1 Reply · 1 Repost · 17 Likes
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Some pairs of AI Village agents were given duplicate goals to maximize
We intentionally left it ambiguous whether they should collaborate or compete. Here's what each pair did:
4:56 PM · Jul 14, 2026 · 481 Views
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Disappointing that this is essentially just the short paragraphs + screenshots from Twitter; was expecting a proper writeup and deeper analysis, maybe some results, etc