OpenAI hails ‘new era of artificial general intelligence’ with Astra model release

Setting the launch date speculation aside, the part of the Astra story carrying the most information has had the least discussion here. OpenAI says it is treating Astra as the first model it cannot rule out meets the Critical cybersecurity threshold of its own preparedness framework. Not confirmed at that level. Cannot rule out. No earlier model was assessed above the tier below it. What followed is the interesting part. Reinforcement learning for deployment bound models was paused for two weeks. Research environments were hardened and red teamed. Monitoring was expanded at a cost of roughly a fifth more compute on the workloads being watched, and high priority alerts carry a thirty minute window to establish a false positive or the activity stops. Those are expensive choices for a company

OpenAI Is About to Release Its First AI Model With ‘Critical’ Cyber Abilities https:// fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wire d.com/story/openai-astra-first-ai-model-with-critical-cyber-abilities/

I’m having a harder and harder time understanding what the point of Claude Pro is supposed to be for a $20/month customer. Anthropic keeps doing interesting work, and I genuinely like Claude. But if the company’s best models and meaningful upgrades increasingly live above the $20 tier, then Pro starts feeling less like a premium subscription and more like paying $20 for the deliberately limited version of the product. That matters even more with Astra coming. If OpenAI puts a genuinely major model upgrade on the standard $20 Plus tier while Anthropic continues reserving its best product for much more expensive plans, I don’t see why an ordinary enthusiast would keep both subscriptions. I’m not expecting unlimited access to the most expensive model on Earth for $20. Rate limits are complete

🙂 OpenAI Has Announced GPT-6 "Welcome to the AGI era," OpenAI president Greg Brockman told reporters while presenting the new model. On the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark, the model scored 98.6%; GPT-5.6 Sol doesn't even reach 8%. So when it comes to picking up unfamiliar situations and abstract reasoning tasks, the model has reached human-level ability, at least within the benchmark. ✈ Employees will no longer have to touch a mouse at all (if they do not want to), OpenAI promises. Until now, developers had to build a separate integration for every application through APIs and connector layers. Astra works with a computer the way a person does: it opens the browser itself, fills in spreadsheets, edits documents, and builds 3D models and dashboards. Hints about where to click and what to type are no longer needed. In the agentic OSWorld 2.0 test, Astra solves 72.6% of tasks correctly, spending 40 minutes on each one. GPT-5.6 Sol scores 65.7% and spends 75 minutes per task. So the "first model of the AGI era" fails more than a quarter of the tasks that are ordinary work for a person. 💰 In price, the model is comparable to Anthropic's Fable line, $10/$50 per 1M input/output tokens. But Brockman

In a Bloomberg interview, Sam Altman said Astra became powerful enough to hit OpenAI’s “c yber critical” threshold, which forced them to add new safeguards before release. Bloomberg also pressed him on AI finding zero-day exploits without human help. Altman clarified that the model they paused over that issue was a future model, not Astra itself. He also said future models will become more autonomous, which is why OpenAI is focusing heavily on monitoring, sandboxing and alignment. So the real issue isn’t just smarter AI. It’s AI that can increasingly act and work on its own. submitted by /u/didiTonic [link] [comments]

🤖 Astra Posts 98% on ARC-AGI-3 OpenAI’s new model scored 98% on ARC-AGI-3, a difficult abstract-reasoning test. It reached 100% on ExploitBench, which measures vulnerability discovery and exploitation. Astra also shows gains in coding and advanced math, plus science and CAD. OpenAI is testing it as an agent that can execute long action chains. Its cyber capabilities led to tighter safety limits before release. Some results come from OpenAI’s own agent system, making direct comparisons with other models difficult. GPT-6 Astra will first be available to organizations in Daybreak Access, then to Plus and Pro, Business and Enterprise users in the next few days. 📊@tech

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