OpenAI's Pachocki says Astra cleared the "automated AI research intern" bar.

Astra can take an experimental idea, implement it in OpenAI's codebase, run the experiment and report results, and can follow up on a paper in work that used to take a human researcher about a week. Altman told TIME the company is "not quite yet" at AGI but will declare it internally by year end; Mark Chen puts them at 80%. swyx's read is the useful one and I'll borrow it: the bar is defined by OpenAI, unaccountable, and best tracked as a compute-allocation signal rather than a capability claim. (Latent Space)