Company president Greg Brockman told media publications in a briefing that Astra’s launch could perhaps be viewed as the beginning of an era of artificial general intelligence.
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra, the company’s newest AI model, is now available to a limited number of users after its unveiling yesterday (3 September).
The company said it will become available “over the coming days … to all ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise users, as well as through the OpenAI API, Microsoft Azure and AWS Bedrock”.
The company said Astra is “the most capable model we have ever broadly deployed” and its first model to reach the ‘critical’ level of cybersecurity capability under its preparedness framework.
Astra can, with the right tools and access, find previously unknown security flaws and develop new ways to exploit them across many well-protected systems without a person guiding each step, according to its maker, which said it therefore “significantly strengthened” protections against the new model taking harmful cyber actions through misuse or misalignment.
