GPT-6 Astra Can Drive Your Desktop, but It Won’t Drive Us to AGI

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OpenAI just dropped GPT-6 Astra, and the tech community is undergoing the usual benchmark observing ritual. Did we actually finally cross into the “AGI era”? The numbers behind Astra are, yes, crazy: 99.9% on ARC-AGI-3, 72.6% on OSWorld 2.0, which might be a sign of us entering a new era when it comes to capabilities, but not the nature of AI we deal with every day.


The headline today from OpenAI was all about agency. Astra doesn’t just output text; it takes control of your machine.
The release ad was all about a room with a big screen and a person verbally prompting an agent (not just a GPT model). The agent was instantly populating forms and assembling spreadsheets and sketching stuff in real time. OpenAI’s tagline was:“Anything you can do on a computer, Astra can do for you. Fast.”which sounds more like a Red Bull ad than...

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