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Re: GPT-6 Astra

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Post by drnick1 »

astrobiased wrote: post #368

I can’t help but notice how much this echoes Francois Chollet’s On the Measure of Intelligence: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01547 Most of frontier-model progress still looks like skill acquisition optimization: broader benchmark coverage and performance, more domains absorbed into the training distribution, and increasingly strong performance within that surface area. It seems more about coverage-driven competence. So…

Why do you expect models to do "genuinely new" things? 99.9% of real world tasks are extremely repetitive.

Re: GPT-6 Astra

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Post by Oscalemor »

Perfect thread to read through some good use cases instead of the one-shot game plays across x.com

First impression: the model seems kind. Always intriguing

Re: GPT-6 Astra

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Post by hrmon »

On the introduction video: The lady asks "make sure that [the presentation] feels really high-end", but something that gets generated without any effort is not high-end anymore. it will be mediocre, or more probably GARBAGE.

Re: GPT-6 Astra

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Post by skrellm »

This is great! It can finally substitute the entire upper management!

Their job is easier to automate than an engineer's or any creative's, and considering their salary it's a lot more gain for any company!

Re: GPT-6 Astra

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Post by simonw »

I finally got access. Here are the pelicans! https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer?url=ht...

The "max" one at the bottom took 4 minutes 2 seconds and cost 63.206 cents.

For comparison, here those new Astra pelicans are in a grid with the GPT-5.6 pelicans: https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/gpt-6-and-5.6-p...

Re: GPT-6 Astra

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Post by sanex »

simonw wrote: post #985

I finally got access. Here are the pelicans! https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer?url=ht... The "max" one at the bottom took 4 minutes 2 seconds and cost 63.206 cents. For comparison, here those new Astra pelicans are in a grid with the GPT-5.6 pelicans: https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/gpt-6-and-5.6-p...

Even the "low" pelican is better than most other models.

Re: GPT-6 Astra

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Post by psii »

simonw wrote: post #985

I finally got access. Here are the pelicans! https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer?url=ht... The "max" one at the bottom took 4 minutes 2 seconds and cost 63.206 cents. For comparison, here those new Astra pelicans are in a grid with the GPT-5.6 pelicans: https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/gpt-6-and-5.6-p...

Interesting that the composition is stable across different runs. There is much more variety in other models.

Re: GPT-6 Astra

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Post by simonw »

psii wrote: post #987
simonw wrote: post #985

I finally got access. Here are the pelicans! https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer?url=ht... The "max" one at the bottom took 4 minutes 2 seconds and cost 63.206 cents. For comparison, here those new Astra pelicans are in a grid with the GPT-5.6 pelicans: https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/gpt-6-and-5.6-p...

Interesting that the composition is stable across different runs. There is much more variety in other models.

Especially interesting that once Astra gets to high, xhigh, max it uses the same aesthetic.

Re: GPT-6 Astra

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Post by saaaaaam »

simonw wrote: post #985

I finally got access. Here are the pelicans! https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer?url=ht... The "max" one at the bottom took 4 minutes 2 seconds and cost 63.206 cents. For comparison, here those new Astra pelicans are in a grid with the GPT-5.6 pelicans: https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/gpt-6-and-5.6-p...

I think the Gemini 3.8 Flash ones the other day were superior pelicans. Particularly the murderous one who was going to squish his tiny cousin.

Interesting that terra xhigh effort is cycling right left, in opposition to the prevailing pelican left to right direction.

Re: GPT-6 Astra

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Post by matt_heimer »

sanex wrote: post #986
simonw wrote: post #985

I finally got access. Here are the pelicans! https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer?url=ht... The "max" one at the bottom took 4 minutes 2 seconds and cost 63.206 cents. For comparison, here those new Astra pelicans are in a grid with the GPT-5.6 pelicans: https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/gpt-6-and-5.6-p...

Even the "low" pelican is better than most other models.

It's subjective but I think only gpt-5.6-sol XHIGH is comparable to gpt-6-astra LOW in quality. And it's 24.11 cents vs 9.55 for astra low.
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