OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra on September 3, 2026, rolling the flagship first to Daybreak cybersecurity customers and saying Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, API and AWS access would follow over the coming days. President Greg Brockman told reporters it is not unreasonable to feel the company is now in the AGI era, while OpenAI said Astra is its first model at the Critical cybersecurity threshold and will keep the most advanced offensive cyber tools limited to trusted defenders. The company framed the release as a generational leap in coding, computer use and science after delaying parts of development to add safeguards following the July Hugging Face incident.
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