OpenAI announces the Astra model and describes it as an achievement for artificial general intelligence

The company confirmed that its new artificial intelligence model has achieved the achievement that the industry has long sought. At the conclusion of a press call held on Thursday to reveal the “Astra” model, Greg Brockman, the company’s president, said: “Welcome to the era of artificial general intelligence.”

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The term artificial general intelligence remains vague, but it has become a pivotal goal in the development of artificial intelligence. OpenAI defines it as autonomous intelligence capable of outperforming humans at most economically valuable tasks. The company promoted the Astra model, describing it as a major research breakthrough and a radical shift in the scope of tasks that can be assigned to artificial intelligence, and it will be available to customers this week.

Brockman described reaching general artificial intelligence as a gradual path, noting his belief that in the future people will look at this stage as the moment in which general artificial intelligence was born, and perhaps this model represented that moment. He added: "I think on a personal level that we have reached that stage."

The GPT 6 Astra model comes about a year after OpenAI launched the GPT 5 family of models, and about two months after its last update called GPT 5.6. The company described the Astra model as the smartest ever in the world and the most capable of compatibility, and that it represents a qualitative leap in performing professional tasks.