ValsAI's Astra agent nears Minecraft victory, builds Nether portal in under 3 hours
imjustnewatai · x · 2026-09-09
ValsAI reports its agent Astra has begun saturating an unreleased computer-use eval: in under three hours it killed multiple hostile mobs and progressed all the way to building a Nether portal in Minecraft, with moves like tower-killing zombie hordes and trapping skeletons to dodge arrows. The team believes a longer run would beat the game. Follow-up debate: the agent thinks 10 seconds per step, so whether it should pause while thinking matters for human comparability.
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