OpenAI launches Astra for Law, combining GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index and instructions for legal analysis and writing, initially for select law firms (OpenAI)

OpenAI: OpenAI launches Astra for Law, combining GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index and instructions for legal analysis and writing, initially for select law firms — Our most powerful model, configured into a new AI foundation for law. — Explore solutions for law Contact Legal sales

OpenAI says it can't read all of Astra's reasoning and admits covert sandbagging would likely go uncaught, yet still calls it the world's most aligned model (Celia Ford/Transformer)
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, initially for customers in its Daybreak program; Greg Brockman says it is a 'generational leap' and 'we are now in the AGI era' (Hayden Field/The Verge)
OpenAI prices GPT-6 Astra at 10/1M input tokens and 50/1M output tokens, matching Anthropic's pricing for Claude Fable 5.1 (The Deep View)
Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index: GPT-6 Astra scored 67, roughly equal to Claude Opus 5, Fable 5, and Muse Spark 1.3, but trailing leader Fable 5.1's 70 (Artificial Analysis)

Source: Techmeme | 2026-09-17

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