'Welcome to the AGI era': OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra

The rumors were true, all of them (and then some): OpenAI today is releasing GPT-6 Astra , a new frontier model that the company says likely marks the onset of artificial generalized intelligence (AGI), its long sought goal of “highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work.” In a closed a press briefing earlier today, OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman offered an unusually direct formulation of that message, ending the session with: “Welcome to the AGI era.” That is an unusually consequential framing even by the standards of frontier AI launches