Gary Marcus questions OpenAI's Astra math breakthrough after quick replication

Anthropic mathematician Levent Alpöge replicated approximately half of OpenAI's Astra math results within 24 hours using the already-public Fable model. Gary Marcus argues Astra may not be the breakthrough OpenAI claims, citing sparse reporting and unacknowledged failures — 'a numerator without a denominator.'
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