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GPT-6 Astra: OpenAI's new frontier model

2026-09-04

GPT-6 Astra: OpenAI's new frontier model
Photo: Dennis van Zuijlekom (CC BY-SA 2.0)

OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on 3 September, a frontier multimodal and agentic model. Availability is limited to selected enterprises, and it carries the company's critical cyber classification. Public pricing has not been verified.

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