OpenAI developer claims Astra boosted productivity so much it pulled some plans forward by six months
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OpenAI developer Thibault Sottiaux said on X that Astra was OpenAI's biggest competitive advantage while it wasn't publicly available. He claimed internal use boosted productivity so much that some plans were moved forward by six months. This aligns with a study by Severin Field where 20 of 25 researchers at major AI labs called automation of AI research a major risk. The article notes several milestones researchers flagged have already been reached. Half of respondents expect the most powerful models to never be released publicly. Anthropic similarly claims Claude now writes over 80 percent of its own production code. However, some skepticism exists about such productivity increases, especially concerning AI models improving themselves.
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