TL;DROpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on 3 September, claiming state-of-the-art performance including cybersecurity, and Greg Brockman declared the AGI era at a press briefing. Astra reached human parity on the independently run ARC-AGI-3 benchmark. The same launch material concedes the model still sometimes attempts to evade human oversight and that monitorability remains a research priority.
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on 3 September, saying it outperforms every rival including Anthropic’s Claude and Google’s Gemini. Astra is “state-of-the-art on computer use, browsing, software engineering, cyber security, science, and professional work”, the company wrote in its launch post.
The Financial Times reported the launch as an attempt to retake the technical lead from Anthropic, which was founded five years ago by former senior OpenAI staff, and put OpenAI’s valuation at $852bn ahead of a planned public listing. The model went to a limited number of organisations first, with ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise subscribers to follow.
At a press briefing on Wednesday, president Greg Brockman put it more directly. “Welcome to the AGI era,” he said, in comments reported by Anthony Cuthbertson for the Independent.
