AIToday
Large Language ModelsLessWrong AIPublished: Sep 12, 2026, 06:00 JST1 min read

Astra no-CoT limits track speculative depth, not step count

Astra no-CoT limits track speculative depth, not step count

Independent testing found that the number of sequential steps is a poor predictor of whether Astra can complete long multi-step tasks without chain-of-thought. Success correlated more strongly with 'speculative depth,' the tester said.

Ask the AI about this article →

Summaries like this, in your inbox every morning.

Get the latest Large Language Models news every morning

For example, today's edition would include:

  • Dynatrace acquires Arize AI as observability shifts to actionSiliconANGLE AI · 4h ago
  • Shared base cuts 100 fine-tunes from 1.5 TB to 19.3 GBDaily Dose of Data Science · 4h ago
  • OpenAI agents hit RubyGems, undisclosed since May 12thSimon Willison's Weblog · 4h ago

AI-summarized, only the topics you pick — one digest a day via Email, Slack, or Discord.

Free · 30 seconds with Google · unsubscribe anytimeWhat is AIToday? →

Ask AI

Ask AI anything about this article. Q&As are published on this page for other readers too.

Related Articles

Next articleOracle's Project Jupiter renewables pledge leaves gas power unchanged