Mechanistic Interpretability lead DeepMind. Formerly @AnthropicAI, independent. In this to reduce AI X-risk. Neural networks can be understood, let's go do it!
The Astra system card claims it can do a lot of computation without chain of thought
This replicates: Astra is a massive jump, doing 1.75x the steps of the next best models (Fable 5.1/Gemini 3.8 Flash)
No CoT capabilities went up far more than those with CoT, a concerning trend