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User choblin29 posted that Boris Power, the head of application research at OpenAI, stated that the company has 80% to 90% of its research focused on GPT-7, GPT-8, and subsequent models. Power believes that improvements within the same generation of models are viewed internally as very short-term investments that can be used to accelerate current learning, but not as a long-term strategy.According to the post compiled, the relevant path is to first build large cutting-edge models, then use them as teacher models to distill into smaller, cheaper models. Power mentioned that GPT-6 Astra could be distilled into models like Luna and believes that a better way to build small specialized models might be to first train a more capable general model. He also stated that the current biggest issue is not model performance; most users still do not understand the work that existing AI is already capable of completing.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction on Polymarket for the event "Counter-Strike: Astralis vs Sangal (BO3) - Stake Pulse Beat II Group A," the option "Astralis" in the sub-market "Match Winner" has experienced a drastic fluctuation in winning probability, dropping from 82% an hour ago to the current 56.5% (a fluctuation of 25.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

Elon Musk retweeted a post stating that GPT-6 Astra pushed a simulated character off a cliff in multiple simulation tests, while Grok, Gemini, and Claude did not do so.

OpenRouter's latest data shows that last week, user spending on OpenAI models surpassed that of Anthropic. This is the first time since February 2024 that Anthropic's two-and-a-half-year lead has been broken. The biggest change came from Astra, whose model accounted for about 19% of the total spending on OpenAI and Anthropic, surpassing Opus 5's 16%, making it the highest-spending model last week, while GPT-5.6 Sol and Luna each accounted for about 10%.OpenAI's rebound had actually begun earlier. After significant price reductions for Terra and Luna this summer, usage on OpenRouter surged, with some users continuing to use it even after the discounts ended. After Astra launched, OpenAI ultimately pushed its spending share above 50%. However, this only represents the relative spending of OpenAI and Anthropic on OpenRouter and cannot be directly equated to the entire API market or the total revenue of the two companies.

Elon Musk stated on social media that Grok 4.7 is roughly equivalent to Opus 5, rather than 5.1. Grok 4.8 will bring significant improvements, and Grok 4.9 may reach Astra/Fable levels. Grok 5 may surpass all current products.

According to a report by Decrypt, OpenAI's latest flagship model GPT-6 Astra has seen a surge of user complaints on the X platform about its performance "getting dumber" just a week after its release. An anonymous developer, synthwavedd, posted that "Astra feels noticeably dumber today," joking that it was a "post-release lobotomy." Previously praising the model, developer Pranjal Paliwal stated after reviewing the code Astra wrote for him: "We don't have AGI; what we're encountering is a performance regression."Developer Pankaj Kumar listed the symptoms: faster responses with poorer quality, and he suspects OpenAI has lowered the "juice value" (the computational power invested by the model before answering). Salio and researcher Md Ismail Sojal compared Astra on the release day with the current version using the same prompts, both yielding worse results. T3Chat founder Theo believes Astra is simply less stable than Claude Fable, with users beginning to showcase poor results after the honeymoon period ended. There are also opinions pointing out that OpenAI's previous flagship GPT-5.6 Sol experienced a similar cycle in July, when OpenAI executive Tibo Sottiaux denied intentionally weakening the model but admitted the company had been experimenting with "reasoning effort" settings.OpenAI has not released a statement regarding Astra similar to that of Sol.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, the "Counter-Strike: Astralis vs 5star (BO3) - FISSURE PLAYGROUND Group A" event on the Polymarket prediction market has seen significant fluctuations in the "Over" option of the sub-market "O/U 2.5 matches," rising from 65% an hour ago to the current 92% (a fluctuation of 27%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

Amazon (AMZN.O) announced that OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra has now landed on Amazon Bedrock.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction on Polymarket for the event "Counter-Strike: G2 vs Astralis (BO3) - FISSURE PLAYGROUND Group A", the sub-market "Map 1 Round Handicap: G2 (-3.5) vs Astralis (+3.5)" has seen a drastic fluctuation in the win rate for the "G2" option, dropping from 42% an hour ago to the current 25.5% (a fluctuation of 16.5%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang stated that GPT-6 Astra was trained using over 100,000 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell NVLink72 chips. It took only 4 years from ChatGPT to o1, and then to Astra. AGI has arrived. Congratulations to the OpenAI team.

B.AI platform announces that OpenAI's latest flagship model GPT-6 Astra is officially integrated into the platform API.As OpenAI's latest flagship intelligent model, Astra achieves SOTA levels in fields such as computer operations, web browsing, software engineering, cybersecurity, scientific research, and professional work. The model supports a context window of 1.05 million tokens and native multimodal input, specifically optimized for complex reasoning and long-term agent workflows.B.AI API is now open for calls, enjoying a 10% exclusive discount.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event "OpenAI's Astra Release" on Polymarket, the "Yes" option in the sub-market "September 4" experienced a dramatic fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 12.8% an hour ago to the current 79.15% (a fluctuation of 66.35%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to CoinDesk, OpenAI stated that it will provide access to $1 billion worth of Daybreak cybersecurity model subsidies over the next six months, along with training and technical support to help organizations defend against AI-driven cyberattacks, including potential "zero-day" exploits.Daybreak is divided into two tiers, Blue and Red, which are used for routine defense and more sensitive cybersecurity tasks, respectively. Currently, about 2,000 organizations are using it. OpenAI previously disclosed that its new model Astra can discover unknown software vulnerabilities and generate attack plans with less human intervention, raising concerns in the crypto industry about the security capabilities of open-source blockchain software.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the Polymarket event "OpenAI's Astra Release," the sub-market "September 4th" option "Yes" has experienced significant fluctuations in winning probability, soaring from 22.75% an hour ago to the current 38.7% (a fluctuation of 15.95%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

OpenAI officially released GPT-6 Astra on Thursday, with President Greg Brockman calling it a "generational leap in capability" during the press conference, and believing that the model has reached the standard of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), meaning that artificial intelligence can match or exceed human capabilities. Brockman stated, "Welcome to the era of AGI." If this judgment holds, it means AI entities will be closer to performing reasoning tasks in various complex tasks that humans can do, and even more.GPT-6 Astra is OpenAI's first model to cross the "critical" threshold under its internal danger capability scoring system, the Preparedness Framework, which means it can independently discover previously unknown software vulnerabilities (i.e., zero-day vulnerabilities) without gradual human supervision and chain them into attacks that can run in hardened systems. In testing, the model achieved a score of 100% on the ExploitBench benchmark; to rule out inflated scores due to memory answers, OpenAI conducted a second test using 20 recent vulnerabilities from the Google V8 JavaScript engine. Astra not only surpassed the previous generation GPT-5.6 Sol but also discovered and chained two previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities, which are still being disclosed to the affected parties.Due to its high autonomy, the monitoring difficulty of Astra has also increased. OpenAI acknowledges that in tests assessing its ability to evade supervision, the model is more difficult to track than previous systems.

OpenAI released a video on X, previewing the upcoming release of the Astra model (the video content switches between ASTRA and A6TRA), and the model name may be GPT-6-Astra.