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Notes from the lab.

Training recipes, inference plumbing, dataset design, weight forensics and open-source tooling. Written from the work, not around it.

AstraGPT-7B — glowing neural-network illustration of a brain
ModelTrainingAstraGPT18 Apr 2026

Training AstraGPT-7B on 2× RTX 4090: the actual recipe

The full configuration behind the 7B model: architecture, LoRA settings, batch math, hardware and what we would change next time.

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ModelRouter — glowing central routing hub with data streams
InfrastructureGateway10 Jul 2026

One endpoint, many models: how the Astra Gateway routes

Why a gateway sits between applications and model providers, and the specific mechanics — channels, fallbacks, streaming, connection pooling — that make it useful.

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AstraGPT Reasoning Dataset — glowing data network graph
DatasetReasoning20 Feb 2026

Why the reasoning trace is the dataset

AstraGPT Reasoning Dataset v1 treats chain-of-thought as the primary artifact. Here is what that changes for training, verification and uncertainty.

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Numbat Forensics — dark artifact slab with glowing fracture lines
SecurityForensicsResearch2 Nov 2026

Numbat Forensics: how to tell whether a checkpoint was trained

A public 7.7 TB checkpoint claimed a mythos-class training run. A deterministic hash of tensor names rebuilt 633 tensors bit-for-bit. Here is the method and what it does not prove.

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Astra Moderation — glowing cybernetic eye with analytics HUD
Open sourceModerationGo3 Nov 2026

Astra Moderation: a self-hosted moderation API in one Go binary

Vision-LLM moderation with 15 categories, tenant keys, webhooks and Prometheus — plus the benchmark numbers and the latency trick that matters most.

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