Astra reportedly trained on 100k GPUs at Stargate Texas in first $1B training run
ai · x · 2026-09-04
A repost from Emad Mostaque claims OpenAI's Astra used 100k GPUs at Stargate Texas, with a couple of months of pretraining making it the first $1 billion training run. The claim is unverified third-party reporting.
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