By declaring that GPT-6 Astra has ushered in the AGI era, OpenAI is being flippant and cementing the term's status as nothing more than marketing (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)

M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: By declaring that GPT-6 Astra has ushered in the AGI era, OpenAI is being flippant and cementing the term's status as nothing more than marketing — With ‘GPT-6 Astra’, AGI is here! Congrats, everyone! — It's a question as old as time. Or at least as old as Terminator 2. Is AGI here?

OpenAI calls GPT-6 Astra the 'world's best computer use model'; in tests, it booked DMV appointments and searched job listings faster than the average person (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
Source: OpenAI's Astra model uses 'recurrent depth', a technique that improves cost and performance but obscures the AI's reasoning, making it harder to monitor (The Information)
OpenAI says it plans to publicly release a version of Astra 'soon' but will make its advanced cyber capabilities available only to select partners (Wired)
In-depth look at OpenAI's model training, dangerous decisions, and cluelessness before the HuggingFace hack; despite delaying Astra, OpenAI still doesn't get it (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don't Worry About the Vase)

Source: Techmeme | 2026-09-04

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