OpenAI unleashes Astra, its most capable and controversial model yet

“Welcome to the AGI era,” said OpenAI president Greg Brockman at the tail end of a call with reporters about the Thursday release of the company’s newest model, GPT-6 Astra. OpenAI describes AGI, or artificial general intelligence , as “highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work.” The company calls Astra its most intelligent and safest model to date, built on advances in pre-training, reinforcement learning, and safety guardrails.