Episode 16 — Astra Beat Claude and Found Two Zero-Days

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OpenAI's Astra hit 100% on the exploit benchmark and found two zero-days before launch, landing in the same 24 hours as Fable 5.1. The first time OpenAI has felt ahead of Anthropic in public.

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Chapters

  1. 02:00Astra's launch video, computer use, and 100% on the exploit benchmark
  2. 13:00Astra versus Fable 5.1: which model for which job
  3. 21:00GLM 5.3 and 5.3 Flash: near-frontier intelligence on Chinese chips
  4. 31:00Gemini 3.8 Flash, Meta's Muse, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, and the flash-model flood