OpenAI welcomes the "AGI era" with GPT-6 Astra – its first Critical-rated cybersecurity model

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What just happened? The era of AGI has arrived – at least that's what OpenAI president Greg Brockman believes. He was talking about the launch of the company's latest model, GPT-6 Astra, which is being hailed as a "generational leap in capability," able to perform more tasks, faster. Its cybersecurity capabilities are so advanced that they meet OpenAI's "Critical" threshold. But don't worry, the company claims we won't, or shouldn't, see any more agents going rogue, probably.

OpenAI introduced GPT-6 Astra as the world's most intelligent and aligned model, calling it state-of-the-art on computer use, browsing, software engineering, cybersecurity, science, and professional work.

OpenAI says Astra scored 99.9% on ARC-AGI-3 and 97.6% on FrontierMath Tier 4. On OSWorld, it finished tasks in around 40 minutes versus Sol's 75; its updated Codex setup was...

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