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if Leo's info is right first Astra, then this new Fable pre-train that's supposedly meant to dethrone Astra and then OpenAI has another internal model that is more capable than GPT-6 Astra, which produced the Navier–Stokes problem solution next few months could get crazy

if Leo's info is right, it's safe to assume openai won't consider astra AGI just yet (internally) even "Bel" is being talked about as a potential base for an "AGI-threshold" model, so i'd guess it gets pretty close to whatever OAI's current AGI definition is maybe continuous learning is the missing piece bel solves?

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