Open AstaBrief cuts cited report generation to 51.1 seconds
Researchers can now download and run AstaBrief 8B to turn a research question and retrieved literature excerpts into a cited report, rather than sending sensitive work to a hosted model. In Asta’s tests, its Fast mode averaged 51.1 seconds per report versus 178.5 seconds for Thinking mode, about 3.5× faster. Allen also released the training data and an example workflow for generating reports from local PDFs.