Analyst speculates OpenAI's Astra is a World Model 3.0 after abandoning Sora
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-07
Analyst teortaxesTex speculates that OpenAI's Astra contains multiple large capability jumps, and its uncanny mastery of the visual perception-action loop points to a "World Model Project 3.0" — the successor to abandoned Sora and GPT-omni ambitions. He earlier argued videogen splits into "animated stills" and embodied environment modeling, the latter compute-hungry enough that Altman reportedly sought Saudi help. Unverified analysis.
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