Why is Astra so good at 3D modeling? Better RL envs vs dropping English CoT
willdepue · x · 2026-09-07
- Hypothesis (akarvonen): Astra's big jump in 3D modeling comes from strong no-CoT capabilities — reasoning in English tokens has long seemed like a bottleneck for spatial reasoning.
- Counterpoint (willdepue): "it's probably just better RL envs honestly, I'm pretty sure."
- He adds that Astra's perception also improved markedly — likely mostly scale, but likely some pretraining architecture/encoder wins too: "Astra can see really well and this surely helps."
Related event: Debate Over Astra's 3D Leap: No-CoT Ability or Scale?(3 posts)→
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