{"id":376889,"date":"2026-09-04T04:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T11:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=376889"},"modified":"2026-09-04T04:12:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T11:12:03","slug":"gpt-6-astra-is-here-openai-says-its-the-start-of-agi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/gpt-6-astra-is-here-openai-says-its-the-start-of-agi\/","title":{"rendered":"GPT-6 Astra is here: OpenAI says it&#8217;s the start of AGI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OpenAI unveiled GPT-6 Astra exactly one year after it launched GPT-5. Yesterday, the company began rolling GPT-6 Astra out to a small group of organizations.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"ChatGPT\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-icon-s\/p\/1922d6a8-6db0-4d04-9f83-e6b396c28354\/1431254015\/chatgpt-logo\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">ChatGPT<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/chatgpt.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/chatgpt.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra is its smartest model yet, and the one that\u2019s most closely aligned with user intent. The company says the biggest jump shows up on the hardest professional work: programming, science, and autonomous computer use.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/is-openai-ready-for-agi-not-so-much-anymore-now\" rel=\"noopener\">A model so capable that people are already talking about AGI<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By OpenAI\u2019s own numbers, Astra scores <strong>98%<\/strong> on FrontierMath Tier 4, 99.9% on ARC-AGI-3, and 100% on ExploitBench. The company is pitching it as a major step up from GPT-5.6 Sol, <a href=\"https:\/\/terra-firma-2.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Terra<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/luna.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Luna<\/a>, which were released just two months ago.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OpenAI also says <a href=\"https:\/\/chatgpt.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">ChatGPT<\/a> with Astra can use applications, browse the web, and handle multi-step workflows like creating documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. On most tasks, the company says, it\u2019s nearly twice as fast.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Greg Brockman serves as OpenAI\u2019s president, and he believes we\u2019re starting to move into the era of artificial general intelligence. Part of that claim comes from OpenAI\u2019s own testing: Astra\u2019s cybersecurity capabilities have reached the company\u2019s \u201cCritical\u201d level. OpenAI has also put new security measures in place after the Hugging Face incident.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The rollout started yesterday<\/strong> with selected organizations and, OpenAI says, GPT-6 Astra will reach the rest of ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users in the next few days, along with the API and <a href=\"https:\/\/aws-ocr-alternatives.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">AWS<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI unveiled GPT-6 Astra exactly one year after it launched GPT-5. Yesterday, the company began rolling GPT-6 Astra out to a small group of organizations. OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra is its smartest model yet, and the one that\u2019s most closely aligned with user intent. The company says the biggest jump shows up on the hardest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/gpt-6-astra-is-here-openai-says-its-the-start-of-agi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;GPT-6 Astra is here: OpenAI says it&#8217;s the start of AGI&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9262,"featured_media":376888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-376889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376890,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376889\/revisions\/376890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376889"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=376889"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=376889"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=376889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}