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OpenAI Begins GPT-6 Astra Rollout as Greg Brockman Welcomes an 'AGI Era'

September 3, 2026 at 18:05 EDT

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OpenAI has started shipping GPT-6 Astra, its new flagship model, after president Greg Brockman told reporters the industry has entered the “AGI era” — while declining to make a formal finding that artificial general intelligence has been achieved.

September 3, 2026 · OpenAI

Welcome to the AGI era — maybe

GPT-6 Astra is rolling out as OpenAI’s new flagship. President Greg Brockman told reporters he personally thinks AGI is here, then left the final call to readers.

ARC-AGI-3 scores on OpenAI’s table

Column height is proportional (1 · 3 · 10 blocks). Astra’s 99.9% used a stateful Responses API harness; the standard harness scored 62.7%.

7.8%

GPT-5.6 Sol

30.2%

Claude Opus 5

99.9%

GPT-6 Astra

100%

ExploitBench (known-vuln exploits)

97.6%

FrontierMath Tier 4 (v2)

47%

Less time per OSWorld 2.0 task vs Sol

100k+

GPUs in the Texas Stargate pretrain

What testers report

Partners at Cognition, Harvey, Jane Street, and Lovable cite stronger computer use, clearer agent reports, and code that needs less iteration.

What remains contested

AGI still has no shared test. Coding lead is narrow. Written reasoning is harder to monitor. Safety researchers warn that opacity undercuts oversight.

Critical cyber · first OpenAI model at this bar

With tools and access, Astra can find unknown flaws and build exploits on hardened systems without a person guiding each step.

Public model refuses PoC exploits Daybreak for trusted defenders Honeypot overreach: 48.2% Sol → 0% Astra

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