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Nov 2, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Astar: Self-Evolving Industrial AI That Learns from Its Own History to Beat Experts

Alibaba and Zhejiang University's Astar model enables industrial AI systems to autonomously evolve by learning from their own Git commit history and experiment results, achieving 54% single-generation success rate with a 0.6B model—surpassing GPT-5.5 and human experts—and delivering 23.6% offline HitRate and 4.86% GMV gains in Lazada's ad system.