OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra, and Greg Brockman declares: "Welcome to the AGI era"
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For the first time a leading lab says directly that artificial general intelligence is already here. A model that uses a computer on its own, does mathematics and writes code for a few dollars an hour turns "SI as an interlocutor" into "SI as a colleague," and the boundary of what can be entrusted to a machine has shifted sharply.
Two days after warning of a "critical" level of cyber capabilities, OpenAI opened access to the model itself. Astra uses a computer like a human: browser, spreadsheets, desktop programs and multistep tasks without a separate integration for each application. Claimed results: 72.6% on OSWorld 2.0, 97.6% on FrontierMath Tier 4, 100% on ExploitBench. API pricing is $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens. ARC Prize recorded 62.7% on ARC-AGI-3 in its standard harness and 99.9% in OpenAI's special harness, but warned that saturating this test does not prove AGI. In an accompanying paper, the model improved the record on the problem of small gaps between prime numbers from 240 to 186. Latent Space valued Astra's work as an autonomous SI engineer at roughly $6 an hour. Companies in the Daybreak program get access first, followed within a few days by subscribers to ChatGPT Plus/Pro/Business/Enterprise, the API, AWS Bedrock and Azure. Brockman closed the briefing with the words "Welcome to the AGI era."