Best model put out so far by any of the frontier labs. Way better than Anthropics models, especially in actual text generation. Claudes fodder heavy text is ridiculous.
> However, I don't see it as such a massive leap compared to Fable or Sol.
It's hard to quantify these things without burning tons of tokens. But Fable has been a huge disappointment for me with the sole exception of graphics (UI/GPU shaders). It burns an obscene amount of tokens and barely produces output better than Opus 5.
Edit because I forgot to mention that Fable is the only modern model that seems to splat out random Chinese or Arabic glyphs. And 5.1 does it more than 5
My guess is : collect all the prompt and their satisfaction score. group them by similarity . For each group pretrain the next model on that . Get these results ready.
Next model generation feed them back those answers.
However, I don't see it as such a massive leap compared to Fable or Sol. As ever, there's a mismatch between the benchmarks and my daily experience of the models.
What do you all think about Astra now that it's been out for a few weeks?