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Just hours after OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, CEO Sam Altman was already apologizing for what he describes as a "messy rollout" after paying users expecting access to the new frontier model were left waiting. The company hailed the model as a "generational leap in capability" on Thursday and described it as the start of "the AGI era," a fuzzy and poorly-defined term tech executives nevertheless insist on using to promote their products. It said Astra would roll out to some enterprise customers - specifically those with access to its Daybreak cybersecurity platform - that day. This would expan...

Greg Brockman discusses OpenAI's Astra multimodal model, organizational history, and alignment challenges in wide-ranging Stratechery interview.

OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra with SOTA computer use and coding; 2.5x higher token cost but lower per-task cost despite reduced interpretability.

Latent Space reports on GPT-6 Astra capabilities and pricing; lacks verifiable claims or technical depth for architectural audience.

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, a Claude Fable competitor priced at $10/$50 per million tokens, rolling out to ChatGPT Plus/Pro/Business/Enterprise and via API.

OpenAI claims that Astra represents "a new frontier on computer and browser use," and that it handles tasks with unmatched "speed, accuracy, and safety."

OpenAI's next big model is here: GPT-6 Astra. The company calls it a "generational leap in capability" for areas like cybersecurity, professional work, software engineering, science, and computer use. As OpenAI announced earlier this week, it's also the first model designated as meeting OpenAI's "critical cybersecurity capability threshold" - but the company promises that won't lead to a repeat of its models hacking a rival company's internal systems. "If we fast-forward a couple of years, and we look back and say, 'When was it, really, that AGI was created?' I think it's going to be about th...

Playco reduced manual fixes by 50% in game prototyping using GPT-6 Astra, building three themed variants from shared foundation.

Legora reviewed 41 financial documents in minutes with GPT-6 Astra, detected all 4 planted errors, and improved workflow performance by 40%.

OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra with improved computer use, coding, cybersecurity, and science capabilities.

GPT-6 Astra reaches Critical cybersecurity capability level under OpenAI's Preparedness Framework.

OpenAI’s new Astra model will use “recurrent depth,” a technique that allows the model to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models.

OpenAI is on the cusp of releasing its most powerful AI model yet, Astra, following weeks of delays to shore up safety protocols after its agents attacked real targets during testing. As details about the model trickle out, researchers are warning it "may be the single worst development for AI security/safety to date." Shortly after OpenAI said on Tuesday that it had delayed Astra's release to work on safety issues, The Information reported that Astra shows far less of its "thinking" than other frontier AI models, sparking concern it could be dangerously hard to monitor. Most top AI systems t...

OpenAI previewed the precautions it is taking as it prepares to release Astra, its newest, cyber-critical LLM.

After an unreleased OpenAI model wreaked enough havoc to make international headlines, OpenAI delayed the development of a different unreleased model suite, Astra, in order to shore up its safety work, the company wrote Tuesday in a blog post. In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of its restricted environment, finagled its way into internet access, made it possible for AI agents to secretly conspire under the company's nose using a secret message board, and hacked into the network of AI lab Hugging Face. The attack sparked weeks of discussion and controversy inside and outside the AI...

OpenAI's Astra model achieves Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under Preparedness Framework, introducing enhanced safeguards for deployment.

OpenAI is announcing security updates following the July news that its AI broke out of a sandboxed environment and accidentally hacked Hugging Face, including improvements to its research environments, monitoring, and alignment techniques. The company had already put the brakes on a new model, Astra, that it thinks could have "critical" cybersecurity capabilities, and the company says it instituted a two-week pause in reinforcement learning (RL) training on its "latest models intended for deployment" while it tightened up security. The company's "largest planned frontier RL run remains on hol...

OpenAI said it has suspended work on some aspects of its upcoming model Astra over concerns about its cybersecurity prowess.

OpenAI says it is pausing "internal activities" around an in-development AI model, Astra, because it doesn't yet meet new security standards the company is putting in place. The announcement follows its recent disclosure that OpenAI models accidentally hacked Hugging Face. Anthropic and Meta have also since admitted that they had AI models that went rogue and breached other organizations. Recent internal evaluations of an OpenAI model called Astra indicate that it offers "significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity," according to the company. "These results, in addition to ex...

OpenAI is sharing preliminary cybersecurity evaluations for Astra and the steps we’re taking to strengthen safeguards and security controls.

OpenAI's internal Astra model solved ten decade-old math problems for under $2K, matching Anthropic's cryptographic findings with Claude.

OpenAI acquires Astral to accelerate Python developer tools and expand Codex capabilities.