Astra is a quiet force. Artificial Analysis has updated their benchmark twice in 4 days to reflect its real strength
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Something similar happened with Sol and Arena had to restructure their coding benchmark and added a full-stack bench, plus updated the webdev bench to reflect real world performance after Astra released. Looks OpenAI is only lab not benchmaxxing
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