Overview
- OpenAI has launched GPT‑6 Astra and made it available through the company API and to ChatGPT Work and Codex Pro, Enterprise, and Business Premium customers while broader consumer rollout is still pending.
- Astra supports text and image inputs, offers a roughly 1.05 million‑token context window and up to 128,000 tokens of output, and includes built‑in web search and code execution tools for end‑to‑end workflows.
- OpenAI released benchmark results showing large gains across tasks, including near‑perfect scores on several reasoning and exploit tests and substantially faster completion times versus the prior flagship.
- Internal safety testing found that Astra could discover and exploit two zero‑day vulnerabilities, leading OpenAI to partially gate the model’s advanced cybersecurity behaviors and add monitoring and access controls.
- OpenAI published token‑based pricing of $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens and made Astra available on Amazon Bedrock, a move that may limit small users while extending enterprise distribution.