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Astra can do 34 consecutive simple math operations in latent space, 4x more than Sol

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After hearing rumors that GPT-6 Astra uses some form of recurrent depth, I decided to make a benchmark that specifically forces LLMs to do long chains of reasoning in latent space, without using chain-of-thought. The results for Astra are crazy: it can do 34 consecutive simple math operations (add,…

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  1. 2026-09-09 20:24 · r/OpenAI
    Astra can do 34 consecutive simple math operations in latent space, 4x more than Sol

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