GPT-6-Astra reportedly posts ECI of 169, crushing open-weight catch-up hopes
scaling01 · x · 2026-09-04
- Cited figures show GPT-6-Astra posting an ECI of 169, far above the author's earlier prediction of 166.5, which was already considered bullish.
- The author concludes open-weight models have little hope of catching up with frontier closed models, and laments the gap. The number is unverified.
Related event: Epoch AI's pre-release eval puts GPT-6 Astra at record 169 ECI(10 posts)→
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