BREAKING:
OpenAI just dropped GPT-6 ASTRA!!! 🚀✨
We’ve been testing it extensively at
@every across coding, writing, and knowledge work. My take: it’s a big upgrade from 5.6-Sol, with some frustrating habits that keep it from matching Fable at the top end.
Here’s your vibe check:
- The best writing model I’ve tried. It’s fast, produces very little slop, and is easy to steer. It’s a good companion for actually working through the writing I do every day. (Not to mention, it one-shotted the first draft of its own vibe check today!)
- The computer use is wild. It can go for hours at a time using complicated apps to get work done. It did the first cut of our Fable 5.1 vibe check video...kind of mindblowing
- Impressive 3D games and visualizations. It can make beautiful 3D worlds from a single prompt. I one-shotted a historically accurate rendition of the Battle of Waterloo
- It can overcomplicate things. (Especially at higher effort levels.) Ask for a simple interface and you get extra labels, buttons, and features everywhere. It has a habit of turning everything into a landing page.
It just doesnt quite match Fable's ability to intuitively understand your prompt and do something delightful (without overcomplicating.)
Net Result:
If you already live in ChatGPT for Work or Codex and can afford it, it’s an easy upgrade from 5.6-Sol.
The biggest proof of Astra's effectiveness at helping you do work is our vibe check. We found out it was launching at 3 AM this morning, and had a 4,000 word vibe check + video done by 2 PM. Not possible without this model.
I’m reaching for Astra all day, but Fable 5.1 still gets my biggest tasks. On ambitious builds, Fable is better at understanding what I want and taking it further than I would have thought to ask.
State of Play:
Astra is launching to Enterprise customers today, and the rest of ChatGPT users over the coming days. Now, both OpenAI and Anthropic have a higher class of models that cost more to use. That changes who gets to use frontier AI and how.
It's also a new vector of competition between them: Fable and Astra are priced at the same level. We'll see what that means for adoption in the coming days and weeks.
read our full vibe check
@every today: