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Not even close to astra. Astra is something else. It is expensive, but uses way fewer tokens do my tasks. xAI missed its chance, Ball is on Anthropic's court.
by saejox 11d ago
Not even close to astra. Astra is something else. It is expensive, but uses way fewer tokens do my tasks.
xAI missed its chance, Ball is on Anthropic's court.
- enraged_camel 11d agoAstra fails in similar ways, and at similar frequency, as GPT 5.6 Sol does. It often goes way out of scope, or just stops prematurely, or tries to find odd and even dangerous workarounds when it gets stuck. It's phenomenal at computer use and 3D stuff. I've been using it less and less for coding.
- brink 11d agoSame, Astra is extremely RL fried, and nobody is talking about it. I used Astra for a few days on my personal project, and load times went from less than 3 seconds to almost 30 seconds because it kept using the wrong sync primitives and bad architecture overall.
- haellsigh 11d agoHuh, I've had a totally different experience. I've used it extensively, maxing out the 200€ plan on personal projects and it's the best model I've ever used, so easy and pleasant to use. It's great for frontend design and using it in Rust I've had Coming from Opus 5, it's a breath of fresh air.
- redox99 11d agoNot surprising considering Grok 4.7 is a 2T model, so Sol/Opus class, not Astra/Fable class.
- jstummbillig 11d agoHow many parameters do Astra or Fable have?
- brianwawok 11d ago5T I believe is the guess, though not sure its public anywhere.
- 01100011 11d agoI tried Astra w/ high reasoning on a design document project and it was horrible. It started duplicating output lines, made document edits without permission, and basically did a poor job writing clear prose. I went back to 5.6-sol and it's great. I'm an OpenAI fanboy and was severely disappointed. I hope Astra is better for coding.
- manmal 11d agoNo, Astra isn’t better for coding. I’ve switched back to Sol.
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- epolanski 11d agoI don't understand these comments. The two models are in completely different price tiers. Astra costs 5 times as much. It seems like all you can judge about cars would be their maximum speed on an oval.