GPT-6 Astra: Frontier intelligence for work, now available in Microsoft Foundry

The next era of enterprise AI will not be defined by chat experiences. It will be defined by how well a model can work for and with you. GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI’s newest frontier model, is now generally available for all customers in Microsoft Foundry. It is designed to help organizations make decisions for complex work and execute across the applications and systems where your business operates.

We are investing to make it easier for customers to use advanced technology like Astra. AI initiatives often slow down on identity, networking, governance, data handling, evaluation, and compliance. Microsoft Foundry brings these fundamentals together in Azure, helping teams move from experimentation to production with speed and trust.

Turn open-ended goals into action

Astra is built to take an open-ended challenge, reason through it in multiple steps, create a plan, and produce a polished result. It can weigh trade-offs, incorporate new direction as work progresses, and use tools across applications and systems. 

For enterprises, this shifts AI from conversational assistance toward delivering more substantial units of work:

• Deliberate planning and decision support. Astra can break a challenge into steps, evaluate options, communicate its recommendation, and identify the next actions for review.
• Polished, purposeful output. Astra can apply context, templates, and quality standards throughout a workflow, helping produce documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and analyses that are ready for review.
• Execution across applications. With advanced tool use and computer use, Astra can interact with software on a person’s behalf, move between apps, and complete multi-step tasks with appropriate human oversight.