OpenAI unveils GPT-6 Astra, signaling a new AI era
OpenAI has launched GPT-6 Astra, calling it the world’s most intelligent and aligned model and signaling the start of an “AGI era.” Astra was trained at massive scale (over 100,000 GPUs) and shows notable gains on agentic and cross-domain benchmarks (ARC-AGI-3, FrontierMath, BenchCAD, OSWorld, etc.), though Meta’s Muse Spark 1.3 still leads on some tests. OpenAI emphasizes Astra’s improvements in Codex-like memory and inference, while noting it is not AGI as a contractual term but a milestone in a broader journey. Rollout will begin with Daybreak enterprise access and will expand to Plus/Pro/Business/Enterprise and via API/AWS in coming days, with pricing around $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens. Safety remains a priority; Astra is powerful but harder to monitor, and scaling will pause until governance and guardrails catch up. Daybreak Blue access will allow defensive cybersecurity testing, while standard Astra will decline advanced exploit work. Overall, OpenAI frames Astra as a major step toward AGI, rather than a definitive leap.