Neel Nanda: Astra's Gains Look Like a Looping Model, Not General Progress
NeelNanda5 · x · 2026-09-11
Interpretability researcher Neel Nanda argues that Astra's disproportionate improvement on no-CoT reasoning — rather than the general capabilities we actually care about — suggests something unusual, likely a looping model, rather than genuine general capability progress. He links to his full analysis.
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