OpenAI’s next big AI model has ‘entered the AGI era’
The short version
- The company calls it a "generational leap in capability" for areas like cybersecurity, professional work, software engineering, science, and computer use.
- As OpenAI announced earlier this week , it's also the first model designated as meeting OpenAI's "critical cybersecurity capability threshold" - but the company promises that…
- "If we fast-forward a couple of years, and we look back and say, 'When was it, really, that AGI was created?' I think it's going to be about this time…
The story
OpenAI's next big model is here: GPT-6 Astra. The company calls it a "generational leap in capability" for areas like cybersecurity, professional work, software engineering, science, and computer use. As OpenAI announced earlier this week, it's also the first model designated as meeting OpenAI's "critical cybersecurity capability threshold" - but the company promises that won't lead to a repeat of its models hacking a rival company's internal systems.
"If we fast-forward a couple of years, and we look back and say, 'When was it, really, that AGI was created?' I think it's going to be about this time, and I think it might be about this model …
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- VentureBeatQwen3.8-Max arrives with a bold claim: it outperforms GPT-5.6 Sol Max and Fable 5 on agentic computer useabout 1 month ago
- Tom's Hardware OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI has entered the singularity — two weeks after OpenAI models cheated a benchmark by hacking Hugging Face about 1 month ago
- The Guardian — WorldOpenAI says its models went rogue and hacked startup in ‘unprecedented incident’about 1 month ago
- AxiosBehind the Curtain: These 3 big AI trends are colliding at the same timeabout 2 months ago
- OpenAI BlogIntuit and OpenAI join forces on new AI-powered experiences10 months ago
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