OpenAI has started rolling out GPT-6 Astra, which it calls the world’s most intelligent and aligned model. The launch began today for a limited set of organizations, with availability for ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users, plus the OpenAI API and AWS, coming over the next few days.
OpenAI describes Astra as a new generation of intelligence, built for the hardest end-to-end work: complex reasoning, coding, computer use, research, and document creation. In a press briefing, OpenAI president Greg Brockman went further, telling reporters to welcome the AGI era, according to reports from CNBC and VentureBeat.
What Astra can do
Astra is state-of-the-art across computer use, browsing, software engineering, cybersecurity, science, and professional work, OpenAI says. Its computer-use capabilities let it handle tasks like filling out online forms, updating customer records, organizing calendars, and running frontend QA checks on websites. The model supports reasoning effort levels from low to max, carries a context window of over one million tokens, and accepts text and image input.
OpenAI reports Astra saturating FrontierMath Tier 4 with a 98 percent score, ARC-AGI-3 at 99.9 percent, and ExploitBench at 100 percent. On OSWorld 2.0, a computer-use benchmark, OpenAI says Astra scores 72.6 percent at roughly 40 minutes per task, compared with GPT-5.6 Sol’s 65.7 percent at roughly 75 minutes. Astra also reaches new highs on agents and coding evaluations, including Terminal-Bench 4.0 and Agents’ Last Exam, while using fewer output tokens than competing models.
Alignment and safeguards
OpenAI frames Astra as its most aligned model, with substantial improvements in understanding user intent and model behavior. The company built an evaluation inspired by the Hugging Face incident that tests whether a model facing a difficult task goes beyond its intended scope; without production safeguards, GPT-5.6 Sol did so 48 percent of the time, while Astra did so in zero percent of cases.
The model meets the Critical threshold in cybersecurity under OpenAI’s Preparedness Framework, which is why the rollout is staged. Astra will refuse more advanced cybersecurity tasks such as creating proof-of-concept exploits, with OpenAI’s Daybreak program expanding access to defensive workflows in the coming weeks. OpenAI also says Astra discovered two previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities during testing, both now disclosed to their maintainers.
Pricing and availability
GPT-6 Astra is priced at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens through the API, with cached input at $1 per million tokens. For developers and enterprises, Astra is also a step forward for agentic work: OpenAI says the model can run in Codex with searchable context windows and notes that persist across sessions.
Source: OpenAI announcement
Giancarlo Viterbo is a Filipino Technology Journalist, blogger and Editor of gadgetpilipinas.net, He is also a Geek, Dad and a Husband. He knows a lot about washing the dishes, doing some errands and following instructions from his boss on his day job. Follow him on twitter: @gianviterbo and @gadgetpilipinas.
Giancarlo Viterbo
Giancarlo Viterbo is a Filipino Technology Journalist, blogger and Editor of gadgetpilipinas.net, He is also a Geek, Dad and a Husband. He knows a lot about washing the dishes, doing some errands and following instructions from his boss on his day job. Follow him on twitter: @gianviterbo and @gadgetpilipinas.
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