Opinion: OpenAI squeezes base models via RL, Astra 6.1 will be stronger

Ananth @Ananth7eOriginally posted 2026.09.23

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openai are the best at squeezing performance out of the base model through RL. we've already seen this multiple times with previous models. next astra will be the same story here. astra 6.1 will be more useful and way better model than astra-6.

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