Leak speculation: Astra training likely ran May-July; OpenAI researchers spend $7k/day on agents
scaling01 · x · 2026-09-06
Account scaling01 speculates, based on new clues, that training of the rumored model Astra likely happened between May and late July. Cited context also notes that the 90th percentile of OpenAI researchers spends over $7,000 a day on coding agents, hinting at frontier labs' agent usage scale. Unconfirmed speculation.
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