AnalysisAI ModelsNovember 2, 2026

MIT paper: GPT-6 Astra edits Qwen weights, lifting MATH-500 to 48.1%

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In "Sparks of Weight-Space Programming," GPT-6 Astra natively edited 0.016% of Qwen3.5-0.8B's weights, raising MATH-500 from 7.9% to 48.1% and tripling IFEval without gradients. Astra also wrote game-playing networks from scratch that outplayed PPO-trained nets.

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