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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 a

by gadtfly 23d ago

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. ---- edit [11:45am PT]: blog post out now https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/ https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/ edit [11:47am PT]: 404ing again

jodacola 23d ago
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.
- pseudosavant 23d ago
  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.
- supern0va 23d ago
  >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.
  - wahnfrieden 23d ago
    OpenAI screwed up the embargo. OpenAI already publicly published the launch article, and then took it down.
- actsasbuffoon 23d ago
  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.
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  - pixl97 23d ago
    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.
- 8cvor6j844qw_d6 23d ago
  > 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 https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2095651088502591861
jrflo 23d ago
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.
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paxys 23d ago
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.
- throwup238 23d ago
  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.
  - bayindirh 23d ago
    The Machine Stops [0] [1] [2] comes to mind. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops [1]: https://archive.org/details/themachinestops_1411_librivox https://archive.org/details/themachinestops_1411_librivox [2]: https://manybooks.net/titles/forstereother07machine_stops.html https://manybooks.net/titles/forstereother07machine_stops.ht...
- peterm4 23d ago
  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?
  - IsTom 23d ago
    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?
    - pixl97 23d ago
vadansky 23d ago
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
- cejast 23d ago
  Welcome to the AGI era - where human intelligence is our only constraint
- indigodaddy 23d ago
  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
znpy 23d ago
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
codergautam 23d ago
Launch blogpost was live for 2 minutes and got 404'd. Rehosted it here: https://astratest.codergautam.workers.dev/GPT-6%20Astra_%20A%20new%20generation%20of%20intelligence%20_%20OpenAI 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/ 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!
- MaxikCZ 23d ago
  That page runs at 2 fps on my Firefox, windows laptop with A2000 graphic card.
  - codergautam 23d ago
    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-LIAUcQevx7j1AiLhzJiVDeVXw5utw/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BO-LIAUcQevx7j1AiLhzJiVDeVX...
- orvelt 23d ago
  damn thanks. stats are bonkers
- ceroxylon 23d ago
  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.
  - CamperBob2 23d ago
    Agreed, that intro video is as dull as dishwater. Not off-trend relative to previous introductions from OpenAI, though.

by gadtfly 23d ago

jodacola 23d ago

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.

pseudosavant 23d ago
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.
supern0va 23d ago
>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.
- wahnfrieden 23d ago
  OpenAI screwed up the embargo. OpenAI already publicly published the launch article, and then took it down.
actsasbuffoon 23d ago
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.
- deleted 23d ago
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- pixl97 23d ago
  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.
8cvor6j844qw_d6 23d ago
> 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 https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2095651088502591861

jrflo 23d ago

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.

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paxys 23d ago

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.

throwup238 23d ago
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.
- bayindirh 23d ago
  The Machine Stops [0] [1] [2] comes to mind. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops [1]: https://archive.org/details/themachinestops_1411_librivox https://archive.org/details/themachinestops_1411_librivox [2]: https://manybooks.net/titles/forstereother07machine_stops.html https://manybooks.net/titles/forstereother07machine_stops.ht...
peterm4 23d ago
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?
- IsTom 23d ago
  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?
  - pixl97 23d ago

vadansky 23d ago

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

cejast 23d ago
Welcome to the AGI era - where human intelligence is our only constraint
indigodaddy 23d ago
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

znpy 23d ago

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

codergautam 23d ago

Launch blogpost was live for 2 minutes and got 404'd. Rehosted it here: https://astratest.codergautam.workers.dev/GPT-6%20Astra_%20A%20new%20generation%20of%20intelligence%20_%20OpenAI 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/ 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!

MaxikCZ 23d ago
That page runs at 2 fps on my Firefox, windows laptop with A2000 graphic card.
- codergautam 23d ago
  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-LIAUcQevx7j1AiLhzJiVDeVXw5utw/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BO-LIAUcQevx7j1AiLhzJiVDeVX...
orvelt 23d ago
damn thanks. stats are bonkers
ceroxylon 23d ago
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.
- CamperBob2 23d ago
  Agreed, that intro video is as dull as dishwater. Not off-trend relative to previous introductions from OpenAI, though.