Cal Newport

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Deep Questions with Cal Newport · How Worrisome is GPT-6’s “Stealth Thinking”? | Tech Decoded · 10 Sep 2026 podcast

Okay, so that is where more or less we were. podcast-host

This brings us up to speed to Astra. podcast-host

Okay. podcast-host

So what we have heard, the report from the information, and again, this is not confirmed by OpenAI. podcast-host

So I'm just running off of their report. podcast-host

I'm pulling the thread from that report. podcast-host

It may turn out to be different. podcast-host

But the report we have from the information is that Astra was implementing some variations of a collection of techniques from the research literature. podcast-host

for reducing the amount of these chain of thought tokens required, yet to still get good type of results like you would if you did have this sort of rambling. podcast-host

There's a name for it. podcast-host

Loop transformers is one of the techniques. podcast-host

Recurrent depth is another one of the techniques. podcast-host

Confusingly, sometimes recurrent depth feels like it's an umbrella term that also includes loop transformers, but they're sort of techniques that are in the same family. podcast-host

So we think... podcast-host

Astra implements something like these techniques inside its implementation. podcast-host

Now, how do these things work? podcast-host

It's actually relatively straightforward. podcast-host

Let me bring this back up on the screen here. podcast-host

All right, so here we have our model of a large language model with the transformer blocks. podcast-host

But notice now I've added a loop. podcast-host

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