Two critical updates re: Astra and mathematics

First, abstracting from all the words in my long analysis on OpenAI Astra yesterday, the overall point was that Astra may not be the breakthrough that OpenAI wants you to think it was. I expressed concerns about how little they revealed about what they did. Moreover, I thought I didn’t stress it there, we all know they are facing huge economic and competitive pressures; they need a win. I am often left with the feeling that their public facing communications are better marketing than they are science.My jaw dropped a couple hours after my own post, reading this from Levent Alpöge, an accomplished mathematician who works at Anthropic:One (obviously smart) guy at Anthropic was able to “replicate” (as best he could...

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