Speculation: OpenAI's Astra is a World Model 3.0 after Sora's demise
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-07
An AI community member speculates that OpenAI's Astra contains multiple large capability jumps, and that its uncanny mastery of the visual perception-action loop stems not from strong latent reasoning but from it being OpenAI's World Model Project 3.0, following the abandonment of Sora and the initial GPT-omni ambition. This is unverified personal speculation.
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