OpenAI unleashes Astra, its most capable and controversial model yet

“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 advances in pre-training, reinforcement learning, and safety guardrails. OpenAI VP of research...