Astra Weight Edits Point to a New Frontier: Directly Unhobbling Smaller Models
A cryptic but telling note on a frontier model directly editing the weights of a tiny Qwen model hints at capability transfer by surgery rather than training.
A note buried in the day's briefings — and amplified by an unusually poetic tweet — gestures at a technique that could reshape how capability moves between models. @tszzl wrote, 'imagine how good it feels as a little 0.8b qwen being directly edited and unhobbled by a frontier-class mind,' framing a small 0.8-billion-parameter Qwen model having its weights directly edited by a much larger system.
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