Raschka dissects GPT-6 Astra: looped transformers, recurrent depth, hidden CoT
rasbt · x · 2026-09-09
- Sebastian Raschka reviews OpenAI's newly released GPT-6 Astra: his best model to date, leapfrogging GPT-5.6 across writing, math and coding, with a disproportionate edge in 3D rendering/animation demos (benchmarks included).
- He examines rumors that Astra uses looped transformer/recurrent depth and is "hiding" its chain of thought.
- The article builds up looped transformers from basics, then surveys recent research papers on looping blocks and recurrent depth, assessing how (or whether) hidden CoT actually connects to looping computation.
Related event: Raschka Deep-Dives into GPT-6 Astra and Looped Transformers(3 posts)→
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