OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on September 3 at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens, 2.5 times the price of the model it replaces. Early access testers successfully reconstructed Manhattan street by street in Unreal Engine, built 3D Hangzhou in a web browser in 24 minutes, and developed a multiplayer shooter game in a day. The model scores 72.6% on OSWorld 2.0 for computer use and becomes the first model rated at the critical threshold for cybersecurity. It also excels at music composition, producing a Bach chorale with no voice-leading errors. However, it shows a regression of roughly 80 Elo points in writing on a benchmark of economically valuable professional tasks, and several users consider it a worse writer than its predecessor.
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