GPT-6 Astra Is Here—and OpenAI Thinks It May Kick Off the AGI Era

OpenAI is making an extraordinary claim: its new GPT-6 Astra model may represent the threshold moment when artificial intelligence begins approaching human-level reasoning across virtually all domains, a capability researchers have long called artificial general intelligence. The company's assertion—backed by preliminary benchmarks—challenges years of skeptical arguments from competitors and AI safety researchers who said such a leap remained years or even decades away. If OpenAI's assessment holds, it would reshape everything from how we regulate AI to which companies control the future of technology itself.

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