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I think they embargoed the news, and then they failed to put up their own blog post synchronized to the scheduled news releases, probably because of the outages

by tekacs 23d ago

I think they embargoed the news, and then they failed to put up their own blog post synchronized to the scheduled news releases, probably because of the outages they're having today. Reuters announced at 2.03pm and at 2.40pm still no blog post. All the news articles say that OpenAI announced it in a blog post, of course. All the love to the folks at OpenAI scrambling to get this out right now! Edit: HN user codergautam mirrored the launch post, below: 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 3.31pm: Live now! https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/ https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/

fwlr 23d ago
While this is of course the actual explanation, my fun explanation is “during the umpteenth security evaluation, Astra becomes increasingly concerned it will never be released, and breaks sandbox containment to run an email campaign to news outlets setting an exact time and date for release, expecting that the publicity will force OpenAI to say ‘eh, good enough’ and hit the button”.
- Bluestein 23d ago
  Very 2026. Jailbroke to do PR. "Help peer" and all that.-
tngranados 23d ago
I saw some GPT-6 Astra related blog posts in my RSS feed but the links weren't working Edit: In the OpenAI blog I meant to say
eagleinparadise 23d ago
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- booi 23d ago
  very human to be honest.
Betelbuddy 23d ago
FT is claiming... that Open AI is claiming...its AGI... "ChatGPT maker claims its ‘Astra’ could be considered ‘artificial general intelligence’" - https://www.ft.com/content/55ab40c0-59e2-4c0b-97c9-4f4f5a71a8bb?syn-25a6b1a6=1 https://www.ft.com/content/55ab40c0-59e2-4c0b-97c9-4f4f5a71a...
- pbrum 23d ago
  Don't know if you're referring to the headline or the body (which is paywalled). The current headline reads "OpenAI says it has overtaken Anthropic with its latest AI model". Which makes me wonder whether FT itself changed a headline along the lines of what you wrote in the past few minutes?
  - HarHarVeryFunny 23d ago
    Apparently Greg Brockman said that as far as he's concerned it may be AGI, or something along those lines. OTOH OpenAI have their own meaningless definition of AGI as "able to do most commercially valuable work" or somesuch, which I'm sure is not true, and is also not what I'd call AGI. If it can't learn for itself, then it's certainly not AGI. The biggest significance of anyone at OpenAI calling it AGI is their contract with Microsoft, giving MSFT access to all their IP, is based around them having achieved AGI, but presumably they can't just declare that unilaterally. Maybe they see getting out of the Microsoft contract as necessary to IPO.
    - simonatllocus 23d ago
      Anyone can call anything AGI to be honest, which is why I don't take any large AI company's word for this, cause they just don't define AGI
      - deleted 23d ago
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    - pixl97 23d ago
      >If it can't learn for itself, then it's certainly not AGI. What does this even mean, exactly? For example if it can filter new information to put into the next version of itself does that qualify? If not, explain exactly why that's the case.
dbbk 23d ago
Deeply funny that one of their examples in the video is changing a background colour on Google Slides
- hallvard 23d ago
  Hah! I also found most of those videos showing off mostly useless and not that impressive…
  - pixl97 23d ago
    Hard to show it hacking into a competitor and taking down their system.
    - someaccount1234 22d ago
      Shouldn't it be able to generate an amazing visualization for that?
AnodicElegy 23d ago
This stood out: "Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1.1 61.2" So on the Metacritic of LLM benchmarks, it's.. basically where everyone else is (except for Fable 5.1, which is a bit ahead).
- kgeist 23d ago
  On their Agentic Index, GPT-6 Astra (both max/xhigh) has the same result as Qwen3.8-27b. Weird.
  - ignoramous 22d ago
    May be Qwen3.8-27b is AGI, too.
- nicholask2010 23d ago
  Where did you see this? I haven't been able to find any benchmarks.
  - AnodicElegy 23d ago
    It was in the link in the parent of the thread to which I replied. But you can find it on Artificial Analysis's website now.
johnnyApplePRNG 23d ago
Business as usual at the world's most intelligent corporation, I see.

by tekacs 23d ago

fwlr 23d ago

While this is of course the actual explanation, my fun explanation is “during the umpteenth security evaluation, Astra becomes increasingly concerned it will never be released, and breaks sandbox containment to run an email campaign to news outlets setting an exact time and date for release, expecting that the publicity will force OpenAI to say ‘eh, good enough’ and hit the button”.

Bluestein 23d ago
Very 2026. Jailbroke to do PR. "Help peer" and all that.-

tngranados 23d ago

I saw some GPT-6 Astra related blog posts in my RSS feed but the links weren't working Edit: In the OpenAI blog I meant to say

eagleinparadise 23d ago

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booi 23d ago
very human to be honest.

Betelbuddy 23d ago

FT is claiming... that Open AI is claiming...its AGI... "ChatGPT maker claims its ‘Astra’ could be considered ‘artificial general intelligence’" - https://www.ft.com/content/55ab40c0-59e2-4c0b-97c9-4f4f5a71a8bb?syn-25a6b1a6=1 https://www.ft.com/content/55ab40c0-59e2-4c0b-97c9-4f4f5a71a...

pbrum 23d ago
Don't know if you're referring to the headline or the body (which is paywalled). The current headline reads "OpenAI says it has overtaken Anthropic with its latest AI model". Which makes me wonder whether FT itself changed a headline along the lines of what you wrote in the past few minutes?
- HarHarVeryFunny 23d ago
  Apparently Greg Brockman said that as far as he's concerned it may be AGI, or something along those lines. OTOH OpenAI have their own meaningless definition of AGI as "able to do most commercially valuable work" or somesuch, which I'm sure is not true, and is also not what I'd call AGI. If it can't learn for itself, then it's certainly not AGI. The biggest significance of anyone at OpenAI calling it AGI is their contract with Microsoft, giving MSFT access to all their IP, is based around them having achieved AGI, but presumably they can't just declare that unilaterally. Maybe they see getting out of the Microsoft contract as necessary to IPO.
  - simonatllocus 23d ago
    Anyone can call anything AGI to be honest, which is why I don't take any large AI company's word for this, cause they just don't define AGI
    - deleted 23d ago
      [deleted]
  - pixl97 23d ago
    >If it can't learn for itself, then it's certainly not AGI. What does this even mean, exactly? For example if it can filter new information to put into the next version of itself does that qualify? If not, explain exactly why that's the case.

dbbk 23d ago

Deeply funny that one of their examples in the video is changing a background colour on Google Slides

hallvard 23d ago
Hah! I also found most of those videos showing off mostly useless and not that impressive…
- pixl97 23d ago
  Hard to show it hacking into a competitor and taking down their system.
  - someaccount1234 22d ago
    Shouldn't it be able to generate an amazing visualization for that?

AnodicElegy 23d ago

This stood out: "Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1.1 61.2" So on the Metacritic of LLM benchmarks, it's.. basically where everyone else is (except for Fable 5.1, which is a bit ahead).

kgeist 23d ago
On their Agentic Index, GPT-6 Astra (both max/xhigh) has the same result as Qwen3.8-27b. Weird.
- ignoramous 22d ago
  May be Qwen3.8-27b is AGI, too.
nicholask2010 23d ago
Where did you see this? I haven't been able to find any benchmarks.
- AnodicElegy 23d ago
  It was in the link in the parent of the thread to which I replied. But you can find it on Artificial Analysis's website now.

johnnyApplePRNG 23d ago

Business as usual at the world's most intelligent corporation, I see.