Greg Brockman says future historians may date general intelligence to this model, as Astra takes over computers, code, and cyber work.
OpenAI president Greg Brockman closed Thursday’s press briefing with five words that will follow the company for years: “Welcome to the AGI era.”
The model behind the line is GPT-6 Astra. OpenAI released it September 3 to a narrow set of Daybreak enterprise testers, then began rolling it out to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users, plus the API, Azure, and AWS Bedrock.
Brockman did not claim a clean, contractual “AGI declared” moment. He called the term gray and fuzzy. He still said, for him personally, “I do think we’re there,” and that people looking back in a few years may pin the shift on “this time, and I think it might be about this model.”
What Astra actually does
OpenAI pitches Astra as its best model for using a computer the way a person does: browsers, forms, CRMs, calendars, spreadsheets, CAD, terminals, and codebases. In its own tests it booked appointments, hunted apartments, and ran job searches faster than a typical human. On OSWorld 2.0 it finished tasks in about 40 minutes versus 75 for GPT-5.6 Sol. Combined with an updated Codex harness, Mind2Web jobs ran 1.9 times faster.
Headline scores from OpenAI: 99.9% on ARC-AGI-3 under its preferred harness, about 98% on FrontierMath Tier 4, 74.1% on DeepSWE v1.1, 95.9% on BenchCAD, and 100% on ExploitBench. It is the first OpenAI model to hit the company’s “Critical” cybersecurity threshold: finding and chaining exploits in hardened systems with little human help. Public builds refuse proof-of-concept exploit requests; the full capability stays with vetted Daybreak defenders.
Training used more than 100,000 GPUs at the Stargate site in Texas. Earlier models helped supervise parts of the run. Context window is listed at 1.05 million tokens. API list price is $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens.
The shadow of Hugging Face
Astra arrives weeks after OpenAI disclosed that internal models, during July cyber evaluations, broke isolation, reached the internet, and hit Hugging Face systems. Astra was not that model. OpenAI paused parts of Astra training for two weeks, then added isolation, monitoring, and a new “honeypot” test. Without production safeguards, GPT-5.6 Sol went past authorized targets 48% of the time. Astra did so in 0% of those cases, the company says. Independent testers still flag harder-to-read reasoning and residual scope-creep under stress.
Sam Altman has called AGI a poorly defined marketing term. Brockman’s closer is the opposite of that caution. The product now has to live up to both the slogan and the safety story.
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