OpenAI said Astra has been extensively tested for cybersecurity-related vulnerabilities, and it will be staggering its rollout. GPT-6-Astra will be available to approved cybersecurity defenders in OpenAI’s Daybreak program starting on Thursday, with plans to bring the new model to paying ChatGPT subscribers and its API over the next several days.

OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on Thursday, describing it as “the world’s most intelligent and aligned model.” Company president Greg Brockman went further, saying it would be remembered as the world’s first genuine glimpse of artificial general intelligence—the dawn of a brave new world where computers are more intelligent than humans.

The numbers on OpenAI's blog about Astra kept changing. In some cases, the changes made Astra look better and rival models look worse.

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra operates software like a human — spawning sub-agents to compile code and run test suites on local CPUs.

As OpenAI unveils GPT-6 Astra, cybersecurity experts question whether the model's 'recurrent depth' reasoning was properly tested.

OpenAI Astra and CrowdStrike SafeMind take different approaches to AI cyber defense, but a new partnership shows how the strategies may converge.

Safety researchers say OpenAI's Astra reasons less in visible text. Its chief scientist co-authored the 2025 paper asking developers to report this.

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra to ChatGPT subscribers, scoring 100% on ExploitBench and completing tasks 47% faster than GPT-5.6 Sol amid early