KOL Tests Astra, Sees No AGI; Speculates GPT-6 Uses Up to 5x Compute

After heavy use of Astra, KOL scaling01 says it lacks taste and agency—still a 'code monkey,' not AGI—while speculating GPT-6 may spend 2-5x pretraining compute on RL, up to 5x total if the 300k GB200 GPU rumor holds.

2026-09-07 ~ 2026-09-07 · 3 related posts

• Scaling01 on Astra: no AGI vibes, lacks taste, doubts 10T params, guesses 6-8T — scaling01 · 2026-09-07
• GPT-6 could use 2-5x pre-training compute for RL, speculates scaling01 — scaling01 · 2026-09-07
• Next-gen model training could hit 5x pretraining compute if 300k GB200 rumor holds — scaling01 · 2026-09-07