Unverified claim: GPT-6 Astra edited Qwen3.5-0.8B weights to improve math
perelmanych · reddit · 2026-11-03
An X post claims GPT-6 Astra directly edited Qwen3.5-0.8B weights to improve math performance. Unverified—GPT-6 isn't an officially released model—but it fuels discussion of frontier models tuning open-weight models without extra training data.
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