Four frontier AI labs shipped major new models inside a single 72-hour window at the start of September 2026, and OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra grabbed most of the attention. But Astra did not launch into an empty field. Anthropic, Meta and Google all put out new flagship or specialized models in the same stretch, turning the…
A little under two months after releasing its last major model family to the public, GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna, OpenAI is back with an entirely new one: GPT-6 Astra, what it claims is “the most intelligent and aligned model in the world.” Following the company’s decision to slow frontier model development in August after…
In this moment, where we’re starting to wonder if we’re controlling AI or if it’s starting to control us, we’re confronted with the emergence of a new and potentially wildly more powerful model in the form of OpenAI’s Astra or GPT-6.
