Astra solves Excel World Championship cases ~4x faster than human champions using pure computer use
sandersted · x · 2026-09-04
Benchmarked against human Excel World Championship competitors, the Astra model completed a 2023 Microsoft Excel Championship case with a perfect score in under 5 minutes using pure computer use — no human even finished within the 30-minute limit. Overall, Astra navigates Excel roughly 3x faster than the best human, per Hanson Wang and Brooke Joseph, marking a striking leap in agentic computer-use capability.
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