Cloudflare Workers lead @KentonVarda ("holy shit"), @thorstenball and @matvelloso all quoted @rikiyatakehi's thread, which says GPT-6 Astra edited just 0.016% of Qwen3.5-0.8B's weights directly, improving math up to 6x without gradients...
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Cloudflare Workers lead @KentonVarda ("holy shit"), @thorstenball and @matvelloso all quoted @rikiyatakehi's thread, which says GPT-6 Astra edited just 0.016% of Qwen3.5-0.8B's weights directly, improving math up to 6x without gradients...
Cloudflare Workers lead @KentonVarda ("holy shit"), @thorstenball and @matvelloso all quoted @rikiyatakehi's thread, which says GPT-6 Astra edited just 0.016% of Qwen3.5-0.8B's weights directly, improving math up to 6x without gradients or training. The original passed 9,000 likes within two hours; the developers'...
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