Astra reportedly uses looped transformers for better performance
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-02
Reports indicate that Astra uses "recurrent depth" or "looped transformers." Unlike standard models passing through a fixed stack once, a looped transformer runs the same information through the same layers multiple times before producing the next token. This approach helps improve performance but makes internal reasoning less readable.
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