Langford: OpenAI staffer probed where the FBT idea came from amid Astra rumors
JohnCLangford · x · 2026-09-04
Langford says he was asked about a rumor that OpenAI's Astra uses a Full Bandwidth Transformer. He has no special knowledge but finds it strange that someone from OpenAI asked where the idea came from. The post links his NeurIPS "Embodied World Models for Decision Making" workshop page as background on his research agenda.
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