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6 months ago I posted GPT-5.4 solving one face of a Rubik's cube. Today Astra can do the whole thing (without code execution)

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Astra also found a hole in my sandbox and ran code to generate a 19-move solution, after patching that and telling it not to run code it found this much more human-like 61-move solution. So, not quite saturated in terms of finding an *optimal* solution yet but pretty impressive. Code at https://git…

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  1. 2026-09-05 10:07 · r/singularity
    6 months ago I posted GPT-5.4 solving one face of a Rubik's cube. Today Astra can do the whole thing (without code execution)

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