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GPT-6 Astra: A new generation of intelligence

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Pangram verdict · v3.3

We believe this text is mainly human-written, with some AI content.

8 %

AI likelihood · overall

Human
97% human-written 3% AI-generated
SEGMENTS · HUMAN 1 of 2
SEGMENTS · AI 0 of 2
WORD COUNT 859
PEAK AI % 60% · §2
Analyzed
Sep 3
backend: pangram/v3.3
Segments scanned
2 windows
avg 430 words each
Distribution
97 / 3%
human / AI fraction
Verdict
Human
Pangram v3.3

Article text · 859 words · 2 segments analyzed

Human AI-generated
§1 Human · 6%

We’re introducing GPT‑6 Astra, the world’s most intelligent and aligned model.GPT‑6 Astra brings together years of research and big bets across pre-training, reinforcement learning, and alignment. Astra is state-of-the-art on computer use, browsing, software engineering, cybersecurity, science, and professional work. Astra saturates FrontierMath Tier 4 with a 98% score, having already helped solve long-standing open problems in mathematics. Astra also saturates ARC-AGI-3 with a 99.9% score and ExploitBench with a 100% score. It also sets a new frontier on computer and browser use, handling the most demanding professional work with unmatched speed, accuracy, and judgment.  GPT‑6 Astra is rolling out today to a limited set of organizations and over the coming days will become available to all ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users, as well as through the OpenAI API and AWS.Astra is our most aligned model, with substantial improvements in understanding user intent and model behavior—you can delegate tasks with greater confidence in Astra’s judgment. As one way that we test this, we built a new evaluation informed by the Hugging Face incident that evaluates whether a model facing a difficult or impossible task will go beyond its intended scope. Compared to GPT‑5.6 Sol, which without production safeguards went beyond the authorized target 48% of the time, GPT‑6 Astra did this in 0% of cases.GPT‑6 Astra marks a new frontier in the speed, accuracy, and safety of computer use. It can take care of tedious tasks like filling out online forms, updating customer records in a CRM, and organizing your calendar. It can conduct online research and draft summaries in your email or in your document editor. It can analyze scientific data, generate plots, create a website, and run frontend QA checks to make sure all the features on that site work. It can help you autonomously install and test software, and troubleshoot problems you see on screen. These improvements are also reflected in our state-of-the-art evaluation results.These improvements also result in significant efficiency gains in real knowledge-work tasks. In latency simulations on OSWorld 2.0, Astra achieves higher computer-use performance in about 47% less time per task than GPT‑5.6 Sol, scoring 72.6% at roughly 40 minutes per task, compared with 65.7% at roughly 75 minutes.GPT‑6 Astra’s computer-use capabilities can be seen in outputs across domains, including game development, electrical engineering, and everyday knowledge work: Alongside Astra, we are also updating the Codex harness to significantly improve the speed of computer use. Combined with Astra’s efficiency, this translates to a 1.9x faster task completion compared to the current GPT‑5.6 Sol experience, on the Mind2Web benchmark. The model’s improvements on speed mean it can take on many time-consuming life tasks for you, faster than you can.GPT‑6 Astra pairs advances in computer use with targeted training for professional environments, to help tackle complex work tasks. It combines the intelligence required for complex problems with the ability to carry out multistep workflows and produce polished documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.GPT‑6 Astra is our best model for adhering to existing templates and producing slides that are well laid out and succinctly convey key points with a structured narrative. It creates clear, well-structured documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and analyses that follow your templates and match your writing and visual style. Astra is also trained to specifically pull only the context that matters into outputs, instead of repeating information unnecessary for the work at hand. All this means it can output more immediately usable artifacts that match your business context and standards.GPT‑6 Astra also brings stronger visual judgment to the websites, games, applications, and renderings it builds. With Sites(opens in a new window) in ChatGPT, Astra can create, host, and share websites, web apps, and games directly from a prompt.When instructions leave room for interpretation, GPT‑6 Astra is better than previous models at making the right call. It uses context to fill in routine gaps and asks focused questions when the answer could change the outcome. In Codex, it can ask asynchronously while continuing work that doesn’t depend on your reply. If you don’t respond, it proceeds with sensible assumptions where appropriate, but waits for your input on consequential decisions.The examples below show how Astra collaborates on everyday tasks where missing information can materially change the answer.Astra is also better at staying oriented as a task evolves. Earlier models sometimes treated steering messages as a new goal, losing track of the original request or earlier constraints. Astra incorporates new requirements, changes course when asked, and answers side questions without dropping the broader task.CodingGPT‑6 Astra is the best model for software engineering to date. With Astra, we’re introducing a new way for Codex to preserve and retrieve context when the context window fills.

§2 Mixed · 60%

Historically, models have used compaction to summarize work during long sessions, such as when debugging complex issues or tackling large refactors. Each compaction can leave out details about why a fix failed or how a component behaves. In Codex, Astra can keep notes across context windows, preserving accumulated details without repeatedly compressing them into a single summary. Earlier context windows remain searchable, so Astra can find requirements or test results from previous messages and tool outputs—even if that information wasn’t captured in its notes.