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It seems like these articles might have come out prematurely, tbd by how much.

I do not personally see any evidence of the new model having been released, or any official OpenAI post about it, or even any employee social media posts claiming it has now been released. All there is are Reuters, Axios, FT, etc, articles making a claim in the past tense.

These articles were presumably pre-scheduled for 11am PT, and the model was almost certainly intended for release this morning, but the service outages this morning might have delayed it.

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edit [11:45am PT]: blog post out now https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/

edit [11:47am PT]: 404ing again

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Launch blogpost was live for 2 minutes and got 404'd. Rehosted it here:

https://astratest.codergautam.workers.dev/GPT-6%20Astra_%20A...

Edit [12:26pt]: original blog post seems to be back! https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/

edit [12:28pt]: not again... getting 500 on their page

edit [12:35pt]: OpenAI page seems to work after clearing cache!

That page runs at 2 fps on my Firefox, windows laptop with A2000 graphic card.

hmm not sure, I was lucky enough to stumble upon the page during the short window it was live and just saved it without any changes.

does it run better on chrome perhaps? i also have a pdf version if that's nicer: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BO-LIAUcQevx7j1AiLhzJiVDeVX...

I suppose they have to appeal to average users, but the examples in the videos are always so corny. By "AGI" they mean you sitting on a couch and asking a robot to draw a rocket ship... and then make it into an uninspired game with Blender? Boring marketing campaigns? Ebay listings?

One would expect something like "review my graduate thesis for a new area of cancer research", but it is always some boring non-tasks like ordering lunch.

I don't think it seems that appealing to the average user either. The tasks shown are either things that most people can do already with ai (powerpoint), aren't interesting to most people (the rocket sequence), or seem to be more work to dictate to Astra than do yourself (listing on ebay).

Agreed, that intro video is as dull as dishwater. Not off-trend relative to previous introductions from OpenAI, though.

Their video is quite interesting. If that way of using a computer actually becomes mainstream, it would mean every tool or service just needs a UI and an API for the user's AI. The current trend of bolting AI features onto every app is starting to feel very unnecessary.

If the numerous benchmarks in that post are to be believed, Astra is really next level. I can't wait to try it out!

damn thanks. stats are bonkers

Thank you!

Shows the weirdness of online journalism. News outlets were briefed about an upcoming event and pre-wrote and scheduled articles. When the time came they were all triggered. Except...the event didn't actually happen.

In a future where Claude and ChatGPT agents automate all aspects of society, that triggers a cascade of real world consequences where everything keeps running as if the new model is released, except the vibe coded upgrade procedure fails to do a staged rollout, taking down the entire agent infrastructure when they try to upgrade to a nonexistent model all at once.

The Machine Stops [0] [1] [2] comes to mind.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops

[1]: https://archive.org/details/themachinestops_1411_librivox

[2]: https://manybooks.net/titles/forstereother07machine_stops.ht...

Presumably this sort of thing was rampant pre-internet? News outlets would _have_ to receive embargoed information so that they could publish papers on time. I believe government budgets are a good example of this happening. I think the weird shift was when online journalism started, and live reactions became the norm, no?

Or you could wait a day or two to write about it, but with initial reactions etc. added. 24-hour new cycle came into view in 80s I think?

Ya, 24 hour cable news in the late 80s.

Hype and views die off very quickly, hence advertising money has disappeared by the next day most of the time.

No, embargoed news is super common. Almost every single product announcement goes through that. Critics watch movies early, companies have access to LLM model improvements early, car manufacturers send production models early… it happens everywhere all the time.

From the article:

> GPT-6 Astra will first be available to a limited set of organizations in OpenAI's Daybreak Access program and will be available "in the coming days" for ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise customers and API developers.

It’s only available to select orgs, first - Mythos style.

>It’s only available to select orgs, first - Mythos style.

Right, but these articles are referring to a blog post and other press materials that do not currently exist / aren't published on OpenAI's site yet.

OpenAI screwed up the embargo. OpenAI already publicly published the launch article, and then took it down.

Didn’t that already happen? I thought Astra had been available to “select partners” for a little while. This is baffling. They shouldn’t have hyped this up if it’s not available.

This is a misunderstanding of how large AI models will roll out until a lot more hardware exists.

This release isn't for you, you poor bastard. This is to companies and politicians. They want big companies to contact them privately for usage in their limited hardware. They also want to get the feeling for the current political vibe before the masses get ahold of it to avoid a Mythos debacle.

> We will give one banked reset for every day you don't have access to Astra on your paid ChatGPT plan, starting today.

At least OpenAI seems to be able to handle the PR side better than Anthropic.

[1]: https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2095651088502591861

Select orgs first, as in today. They said it will roll out to all of the paying consumers and businesses over the next few days.

Yeah I wonder what's going on, even when Anthropic soft launched Fable/Mythos I'm pretty sure they had model cards. Weird for GPT-6 to launch without a tweet from Altman too. I'm sure that one of the articles published prematurely and everyone else followed suit.

You'd think this would be easy to organize with AGI

> Plan your own release announcement and blog posts and notify news outlets, MAKE NO MISTAKES

This make no mistakes stuff is so funny to me. I've never once used it or even thought about using it in a prompt

Welcome to the AGI era - where human intelligence is our only constraint

indeed 404-ing again, with this note by gpt-5.6-sol:

    A missing footnote
    Leaves the sentence room to breathe
    Read the larger thought

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