https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eRmzz8J8Qkzqvzrgg/astra-can-...

> *TLDR*: Astra has 8.6x better odds of doing a reasoning task without CoT than the next best model (Fable 5.1), and can do 7.2 serial arithmetic steps in a forward pass vs 4.1 for the next best model (Gemini 3.8 Flash/Fable 5.1)