Unveiled on Thursday, Astra has outperformed rival models from Anthropic, Google, Meta and Chinese labs Alibaba and Moonshot on key benchmarks for coding, cybersecurity, computer use and reasoning, according to the Sam Altman-led company.

OpenAI said companies participating in its application-based cybersecurity program will be first to get access to Astra.

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