OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra is drawing contradictory benchmark verdicts. Epoch AI puts it out in front with 169 points, while Artificial Analysis rates it no better than its predecessor and behind Claude Fable 5.1. The biggest surprise comes from ARC-AGI-3, where Astra works more efficiently than the average human for the first time. ARC Prize chief François Chollet doesn't call this proof of AGI, but he does see the progress running "twice as fast" as he expected, and he's moving up his AGI forecast.

Astra is designed to navigate software much as a person does — working across browsers, spreadsheets, websites and desktop applications, producing finished documents and…

OpenAI leaders think the company’s next generation model, which excels at computer use and coding, may mark a major milestone in AI development.

An impressive system that can (to some unknown extent) build symbolic world models