The model, called Astra, can spot more security vulnerabilities than the most advanced OpenAI model publicly available today, company officials told reporters on a conference call on Tuesday. Astra also needs less computational power to accomplish those tasks.

The company will give select partners early access to its Astra AI model—so they have time to shore up their defenses.

OpenAI says Astra is considerably more capable at cyber tasks than GPT-5.6 Sol. Following the Hugging Face incident, it is being especially cautious about releasing it.