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The Decoder reports that OpenAI developer Thibault Sottiaux called Astra a major competitive advantage and linked internal use to a six-month roadmap acceleration. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: OpenAI developer claims Astra boosted productivity so much it pulled some plans forward by six months · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:17acc134e0f0ff47db8890bdd969f4de7175e7cec14eefb50bc2728bf562b607

OpenAI developer Thibault Sottiaux poured some gas on the hype fire. Astra was probably OpenAI's "biggest competitive advantage" while it wasn't publicly available, he wrote on X. Since the team started using it internally, productivity jumped so much that some plans got moved up by six months.