OpenAI unleashes Astra, its most capable and controversial model yet

OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra marks the arrival of AGI, even as its cybersecurity abilities and harder-to-monitor reasoning raise new safety concerns.

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“Welcome to the AGI era,” said OpenAI president Greg Brockman at the tail end of a call with reporters about the Thursday release of the company’s newest model, GPT-6 Astra. OpenAI describes AGI, or artificial general intelligence, as “highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work.”

The company calls Astra its most intelligent and safest model to date, built on........

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