| ▲ | gadtfly 2 days 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/ edit [11:47am PT]: 404ing again |
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| ▲ | codergautam 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| 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! |
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| ▲ | MaxikCZ 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | That page runs at 2 fps on my Firefox, windows laptop with A2000 graphic card. | | | |
| ▲ | ceroxylon 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | jacob235 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | 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). | |
| ▲ | CamperBob2 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Agreed, that intro video is as dull as dishwater. Not off-trend relative to previous introductions from OpenAI, though. |
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| ▲ | ilkkao 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | 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. | |
| ▲ | pseudosavant 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | If the numerous benchmarks in that post are to be believed, Astra is really next level. I can't wait to try it out! | |
| ▲ | orvelt 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | damn thanks. stats are bonkers | |
| ▲ | temuze 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Thank you! |
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| ▲ | paxys 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | throwup238 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | 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. | | | |
| ▲ | peterm4 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | 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 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | 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 2 days ago | parent [-] | | 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. |
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| ▲ | inerte 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | 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. |
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| ▲ | jodacola 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | supern0va 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | >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 2 days ago | parent [-] | | OpenAI screwed up the embargo. OpenAI already publicly published the launch article, and then took it down. |
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| ▲ | actsasbuffoon 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | pixl97 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | 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. | |
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| ▲ | 8cvor6j844qw_d6 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > 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 | |
| ▲ | pseudosavant 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | 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. |
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| ▲ | jrflo 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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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| ▲ | vadansky 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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 |
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| ▲ | indigodaddy 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | 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 | |
| ▲ | cejast 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Welcome to the AGI era - where human intelligence is our only constraint |
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| ▲ | znpy 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| 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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