Two Minute Papers Explains the OpenAI Astra Weight-Space Programming Hack
Two Minute Papers · youtube · 2026-11-08
Two Minute Papers released a video explaining the so-called OpenAI Astra Weight Hack, based on the publicly available Weight Space Programming work.
- The research explores programming/intervening on model behavior directly in weight space
- The linked blog post at rikiyat.github.io details the method
- The video is sponsored by Lambda GPU Cloud
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