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MIT team uses OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra to directly edit Qwen's open model weights

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MIT researchers Study authorsGPT-6 Astra OpenAI model used as the editing toolQwen Alibaba's open-weight model, the edit targetGemma Google's open-weight model, a second edit target

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