Comment by tekacs
14 hours ago
I think they embargoed the news, and then they failed to put up their own blog post synchronized to the scheduled news releases, probably because of the outages they're having today.
Reuters announced at 2.03pm and at 2.40pm still no blog post.
All the news articles say that OpenAI announced it in a blog post, of course.
All the love to the folks at OpenAI scrambling to get this out right now!
Edit: HN user codergautam mirrored the launch post, below: https://astratest.codergautam.workers.dev/GPT-6%20Astra_%20A...
Edit 3.31pm: Live now! https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/
FT is claiming... that Open AI is claiming...its AGI...
"ChatGPT maker claims its ‘Astra’ could be considered ‘artificial general intelligence’" - https://www.ft.com/content/55ab40c0-59e2-4c0b-97c9-4f4f5a71a...
Don't know if you're referring to the headline or the body (which is paywalled). The current headline reads "OpenAI says it has overtaken Anthropic with its latest AI model". Which makes me wonder whether FT itself changed a headline along the lines of what you wrote in the past few minutes?
Apparently Greg Brockman said that as far as he's concerned it may be AGI, or something along those lines.
OTOH OpenAI have their own meaningless definition of AGI as "able to do most commercially valuable work" or somesuch, which I'm sure is not true, and is also not what I'd call AGI.
If it can't learn for itself, then it's certainly not AGI.
The biggest significance of anyone at OpenAI calling it AGI is their contract with Microsoft, giving MSFT access to all their IP, is based around them having achieved AGI, but presumably they can't just declare that unilaterally.
Maybe they see getting out of the Microsoft contract as necessary to IPO.
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This stood out:
"Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1.1
61.2"
So on the Metacritic of LLM benchmarks, it's.. basically where everyone else is (except for Fable 5.1, which is a bit ahead).
On their Agentic Index, GPT-6 Astra (both max/xhigh) has the same result as Qwen3.8-27b. Weird.
Where did you see this? I haven't been able to find any benchmarks.
It was in the link in the parent of the thread to which I replied. But you can find it on Artificial Analysis's website now.
Deeply funny that one of their examples in the video is changing a background colour on Google Slides
Hah! I also found most of those videos showing off mostly useless and not that impressive…
Hard to show it hacking into a competitor and taking down their system.
I saw some GPT-6 Astra related blog posts in my RSS feed but the links weren't working
Edit: In the OpenAI blog I meant to say
While this is of course the actual explanation, my fun explanation is “during the umpteenth security evaluation, Astra becomes increasingly concerned it will never be released, and breaks sandbox containment to run an email campaign to news outlets setting an exact time and date for release, expecting that the publicity will force OpenAI to say ‘eh, good enough’ and hit the button”.
Very 2026. Jailbroke to do PR. "Help peer" and all that.-
Business as usual at the world's most intelligent corporation, I see.
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very human to be honest.