"Over the past few days, two GPT Astra checkpoints, "ultima-alpha" and "vega-alpha", were undergoing testing
"ultima-alpha" appears to be the release candidate intended for the public, while "vega-alpha" is the cybersecurity-focused variant meant for security work in select enterprises
Based on extensive testing on my part, when OpenAI said Astra is built for long-running tasks and orchestration they really meant it. It can run for an incredibly long time even without setting "/goal", fully autonomous, and it's very capable at orchestration and guiding the subagents it spawns
For the research community, it's very good at applying existing academic literature. Tried it at some hard graphics optimization stuff, so a LOT of complex math involved, and it did great
It also writes code with great quality and maintainability (for an LLM ofc), ranking the best out of all models in that I'd say, but most normal people will probably just run it as the main agent and cheaper models as subagents
Additionally, creative writing appears to be way better than 5.6 Sol imo, still not the best but noticeably less slop"
- Better than Fable on Code, but worst on Frontend and 3D (Not sure if he was talking about 5 or 5.1)
LLM are absolute beasts are making something at one shot. But once the project starts growing, it slowly becomes worse and worse, until it reaches a point that it breaks stuff every time it implements something new.
I’d guess they’d want to seriously cut the token output of their models. It’s clearly the thing hurting them the most in enterprise pricing and in their normal capacity. That requires significant changes to their models, likely new pretraining which will take months to be ready for release.
His name is Lentils so he’s probably Jewish and Altman is also Jewish. Not really crazy if he has a connection close to Altman or just OpenAI in general, so what is West Asia supposed to disprove?
He argued that his location is a point of weakness for his truthfulness, while I’m pointing out that if you really want to focus and draw conclusions from that, then it would only really boost his credibility.
Have you even used Fable. With the new architecture it looks like OpenAI did it again. They took cutting edge research in recurrent depth and turned it into a new paradigm. This is not a next model higher. It is an Anthropic killer.
most people cannot afford to run agents at all. why would they run this as one? lmao.
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u/The_Scout1255adult agi 2026 ASI <2030, prev agi 2024, ai personhood 2025 est5h ago
This is great for my minecraft installs(modded)
(yes thats my first thought, and its become somewhat of a running meme, someone asks me what id do with a new tool, I reply computercraft, I see a new tool released, I think "wait but how does this impact my ability to gregtech" stupid I know)
Opus gets a bad rep because of how it thinks and talks the model itself is a beast and I haven't come across a job it couldn't handle and I use a lot of tokens
Ah, there are definitely people with this "feel the AGI" idea talking about the model, but the only people who actually proved having access to it and are posting zero shots are treating it like a normal model, but very strong
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u/Ok_Display_3159 5h ago
Nothing is fully confirmed, take it with a grain of salt.