Blogger: astra and fable are pacing the LLM frontier today
willcb · x · 2026-09-15
willcb tweets that the models astra and fable "have really been pacing the frontier" today.
A short first-hand observation of frontier model performance with no benchmarks or examples attached, but a useful signal that these models' capabilities may have recently jumped.
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