> What do you all think about Astra now that it's been out for a few weeks?

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