Guillaume Verdon: Google's Astra smells more like a big model than Opus 5.5
beffjezos · x · 2026-09-28
Extropic founder Guillaume Verdon (aka beffjezos) offered a quick take on unreleased frontier models: Astra (Google) reads to him as more of a "big model" play, while the rumored Opus 5.5 still gives off whiffs of "Claudeslop" — Anthropic-style output. Purely a subjective impression from an industry insider.
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