if true openai has made another o1-level breakthrough
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OpenAI has reportedly achieved an "o1-level breakthrough" with its Astra model, enabling latent space reasoning. This allows Astra to think more abstractly, moving beyond the text-based thought processes of current frontier models. This advancement could provide more comprehensive information and facilitate reasoning about concepts not easily described in text, similar to how humans perform spatial reasoning without relying on verbalized thoughts.
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From the reporting here allegedly OpenAI has trained Astra to do latent space reasoning, which is thinking in a more abstract way and not necessarily jotting down in text all the model's thoughts (as how all the current frontier models work right now). Which is most likely a lot more information and allows the model to reason about things that can't be very well described as text. As for example when us humans do spatial reasoning we don't really think in text.