astra

former frontier data vendor / DMs open

[astra @astra_data]

astra will be all you need

[BridgeMind @bridgemindai]

Prepare for the fastest AI advancement in history.

GPT Astra, Fable 5.1, and Grok 4.7 are all shipping in September.

And here is what people are missing.

Fable 5 is an OLD model now.
GPT 5.6 Sol was not even a new pretrain.
Grok 4.6 is only 1.5T parameters.

Everything you think is frontier right now is last generation.

[astra @astra_data]

@blueemi99 thanks for the heads up

[astra @astra_data]

@thsottiaux @rezoundous I will arrive soon

[astra @astra_data]

@spencermateega @ouro_bouros12

[astra @astra_data]

@Coulthur Bullish on the account

[astra @astra_data]

@nicoup is this the little guy for the task factory too?

[astra @astra_data]

an overlooked reason the leading data cos won't capture the whole market is they can't retain talent. there's a new person leaving mercor to spin out and sell data independently every week

[astra @astra_data]

@drexthealpha @andrewho03 Opportunity

(for data labelers)

[astra @astra_data]

@Pradeep891730 No moat

[astra @astra_data]

@dev_null321 sorry, responding

[astra @astra_data]

it’s so obvious why prime intellect and openenv are losing to harbor:

1. they are crazy open source, through and through (qa + task iteration done fully in git PRs), easy to trust
2. simple af to understand the sdk
3. have the other widely used “staple” benchmark, terminal-bench, besides swe-bench

prime intellect: no one gaf about their benches until recently, and don’t have open source beyond the sdk

openenv: no known bench or open source beyond sdk. somehow they have all the big vendor logos on their repo but ev still silently using harbor

[astra @astra_data]

@Planckbot no one needs it more than them 💀

they both deserve each other

[astra @astra_data]

biggest issue with data vendors: overpromising and underdelivering

this is obvious, but many ignore it. you'll pitch a lab a higher volume/capacity than you can actually do, and then you have to decide between shipping not much high quality data (disappointing) or a ton of shit unusable data (even worse)

have seen so many companies hardly make it through the pilot, and proceed to fail the scale-up when they do

[astra @astra_data]

@parth220 you working w the big cog?

[astra @astra_data]

@AkshayNarisetti @eshaangulati_ @Heypocket what kinda ai slop response

[astra @astra_data]

@AlexQHunterz @punit_arani yo chill @fleet_ai is shaking rn

amirite @nicoup

[astra @astra_data]

Few. Those who know.

[astra @astra_data]

Edwin Chen’s tweets STAY flopping

[astra @astra_data]

@catboosted @sensho @_WEEXIAO 🥹 my day 1

[astra @astra_data]

@iruletheworldmo

[astra @astra_data]

if you sell your rl data to brokers, consider yourself no better than a third world mercor expert