OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra and says welcome to the "AGI era"

OpenAI on Thursday launched GPT-6 Astra, its newest flagship model. The company describes it as “the world’s most intelligent and aligned model,” and as far as the benchmarks go, that seems about right.

During a press briefing ahead of the launch, OpenAI President Greg Brockman took things a bit further than the benchmarks, though. After acknowledging that AGI remains a “gray, fuzzy thing,” he suggested future observers might look back at Astra as the model that marked its arrival.

“I think it’s not unreasonable to feel that we are now in the AGI era,” Brockman said. Asked whether OpenAI was formally declaring that it had achieved AGI, he said the term was no longer tied to a contractual trigger(referring to its earlier agreement with Microsoft) and described it instead as a “mission concept or spiritual concept.”

“I do leave it up to the reader to decide for themselves if this qualifies for them,” Brockman said. “For me personally, I do think we’re there. I do think there’s a pretty good argument for it. But again, I think this is the beginning of a journey, not the end.”

He closed the briefing with “Welcome to the AGI era.”

“Welcome to the AGI era.” — OpenAI President Greg Brockman.

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