OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra to Plus, Pro, Enterprise, and Business Standard and Premium users in ChatGPT Work and Codex and in the API

We're introducing GPT-6 Astra, the world's most intelligent and aligned model.The Tech Portal:OpenAI's ‘GPT-6 Astra’ can do anything your computer can, and moreAmritanshu Mukherjee /Financial Express:OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra vs GPT-5.6 Sol: Which one should you choose in ChatGPTAmanda Caswell /Tom's Guide:ChatGPT-6 Astra is here — this one prompt shows what it can really doMaria Deutscher /SiliconANGLE:OpenAI starts rolling out its next-generation GPT-6 Astra modelBen Schoon /9to5Google:OpenAI launc

9to5Mac 2026-09-04 Zac Hall

Context & Ripple Effects

OpenAI first positioned Astra for its Daybreak program and described it as a generational leap. The broader release turns that limited introduction into a distribution test across ChatGPT Work, Codex and developer integrations, following computer-use tests that OpenAI says beat the average person on selected web tasks.

The rollout is backed by OpenAI's largest reported training run, using more than 100,000 GPUs at its Texas Stargate site. That infrastructure scale matters because Astra is being offered both as an end-user product and as metered API capacity.

First-order effects

Plus, Pro, Enterprise and Business users gain Astra in ChatGPT Work and Codex, while developers can integrate the model through OpenAI's API.
API buyers receive a defined pricing benchmark of $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens; OpenAI has also matched Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 pricing.

Second-order effects

Anthropic faces a more direct pricing and distribution response as OpenAI places a comparably priced frontier model in both workplace subscriptions and the API.
Enterprise buyers can compare a single model across employee-facing ChatGPT Work, coding workflows in Codex and custom API applications, concentrating evaluation around operational task performance rather than standalone chat quality.

Third-order effects

If computer-use capability proves reliable in workplace deployments, frontier-model competition shifts toward control of the workflow surface—chat clients, coding tools and APIs—not just benchmark leadership.
The reported 100,000-plus-GPU training run raises the capital and infrastructure threshold for providers seeking to supply comparable models at broad subscription and API scale.

The trend: Frontier AI vendors are pairing costly model training with broad workplace and developer distribution to compete on the cost and reliability of completed digital tasks.

Discussion

@panzer @panzer on x
Astra, retire me in 1 week.
@thsottiaux Tibo on x
We are progressing through the rollout of Astra. Pro and Business subscriptions get it first, some of you should start seeing it across ChatGPT Work and Codex. And then we will proceed with rollout to all of Plus as fast as we can.
@rhyssullivan Rhys on x
OpenAI making Astra available so quickly is crazy to me given their coms around it - I have to assume that they basically just moved heaven and earth to get compute online to fix the negative reception to it not being immediately available? Is very much appreciated
@notjazii @notjazii on x
Astra limits just got boosted ~50% OpenAI updated the docs with higher 5-hour message estimates: > Plus: 5-45 messages (was 3-30) > Pro 5x: 25-225 (was 15-150) > Pro 20x: 100-900 (was 60-600) astra access has started rolling out too. check yours happy astra day everyone
@altryne Alex Volkov on x
I got astra!! 🔥 Let's GOOOO
@daradoescode Dara A. on x
It only took one day I see what you did here reset man...🤔
@tomkrcha Tom Krcha on x
I had an early access to GPT-6 Astra and I can say, everyone in the world now has a 3D designer at their fingertips. I gave it an image of a house and asked to create it in 3D with all the details including toys, appliances and furniture. This a full 3D model reconstruction in Bl…
@sharifshameem Sharif Shameem on x
GPT-6 Astra recreated the Palace of Fine arts in Blender. This is favorite building in San Francisco because it was built for the World's Fair in 1914 where the steam locomotive and telephone were showed off. It was a time when technology gave us all a deep sense of optimism for …
@skirano @skirano on x
I had early access to GPT-6. This model will completely shatter your understanding of what's possible, and it will start a new era of creativity. It's hard to explain how big of a jump this is, so I'll share my tests. 1/6 Made this 3D model and animation in code from an image.
@thezvi Zvi Mowshowitz on x
This seems importantly wrong in the second paragraph. A monitor forcing you to not put some info in the CoT does not make the CoT useless to you. You can otherwise use the CoT for its usual purposes, without explicit reasoning about the misaligned part. Humans do this often.
@mattshumer_ Matt Shumer on x
GPT-6 Astra built this Manhattan world in Unreal Engine over the course of a week. It was literally able to go street by street to make each one perfect.
@dimillian Thomas Ricouard on x
Astra is very good at 3D modeling, and I can't wait for all of you to experience it, for now here is a little walkthrough on how I built the demo house for our launch blog post. From a Blender scene to a Unreal Engine 5 walkable experience. 🧵
@mattshumer_ Matt Shumer on x
Token crowdfunding would be an incredible unlock for mega-projects like this. With enough tokens, I'd bet Astra could build a world-scale GTA-style game. Imagine if everyone could contribute their tokens... people would be able to build unbelievable things.
@mattshumer_ Matt Shumer on x
My first “holy shit
@mreflow Matt Wolfe on x
I guess we're allowed to talk about it now... Astra has absolutely blown my mind. I did get early access to test it out and it's definitely felt like the biggest leap we've seen in a long time! I asked it to make me a humanoid wolf in Blender, it used computer use, took control o…
@skirano Pietro Schirano on x
“Hey Astra, make me a Mac app. It should render a 3D iPod that you'll build in Blender, then using the original iPod UI and interactions I want to be able to visualize all my Codex threads on it.
@realyunfanye Yunfan Ye on x
GPT-6 Astra is a beast. Give it a Zillow listing. It can 3D model the house based on the listing photos and create a cool promotion video. The video was just created in one shot and there are still some wrong details. But I am sure it will be much better if I ask it to polish fur…
@danshipper Dan Shipper on x
Astra one-shotted a historically accurate 3D reconstruction of the battle of Waterloo
@rohanpaul_ai Rohan Paul on x
GPT-6 Astra hit a record 169 on Epoch AI's capability index, jumping 6 points past the previous ceiling and setting separate records across math, continual learning, and game puzzles. This benchmark ECI combines scores from more than 50 benchmarks into one capability scale, reduc…
@matthewberman Matthew Berman on x
Astra's understanding of 3D assets and spacial awareness is beyond anything else.
@romainhuet Romain Huet on x
Astra's 3D work has been blowing my mind. Thomas went from a floor plan to a Blender scene to a house you can walk around in Unreal Engine 5. Even the coffee machine works! 🤯 See how he built it in the thread. We're working hard to bring Astra to you all as soon as possible.
@tomkrcha Tom Krcha on x
So how good really is GPT-6 Astra at 3D modeling? I took an old drawing of a steam train, gave it to Astra to reconstruct it in Blender. After few minutes it crafted 3,295 fully editable detailed objects with beautiful geometry. You can obviously tell it how detailed or simplifie…
@piliponful Maksym on x
This is what Astra did in Blender in 30 seconds. We are so unbelievably cooked.
@pewilliams_ Paul E Williams on x
Not to downplay Astra. But I am somewhat unimpressed by these 3D models. What is the purpose or economic value of any of this? A video of your living room?
@joshmillgate Josh Millgate on x
Wow GPT-6 Astra really is insane... It one-shotted this tool that creates 3D mockups that are indistinguishable from reality.
@blueemi99 @blueemi99 on x
This is what Astra made in Blender. This is SOTA, and crazy good at 3d. 3d modeling is cooked
@andrewchen Andrew Chen on x
Pretty clear we're about to get a VR comeback, no?
@pvncher Eric Provencher on x
Thomas and I have been going back and forth on pushing Astra harder and harder on 3D asset assembly and modeling tasks. I never would have believed even 3 months ago, that an LLM could do this, but here we are.
@mattworkman Matt Workman on x
quite interesting Open AI to market demo Astra has lead with 3D Blender, Unreal, and Unity demos while likely training something else
@davis7 Ben Davis on x
The computer use capabilities of Astra are so far beyond anything else out there it's pretty unbelievable I've had it create projects, setup clips, do full color grades, and first passes on videos flawlessly in Final Cut Pro (just clicking stuff how I would) Make actually clean e…
@fieroty @fieroty on x
Astra is a monster at 3D, it one shotted this model of @ChelseaFC's stadium, Stamford Bridge. I can't wait to see the games and models you all create with this model.
r/singularity r on reddit
GPT-6 Astra recreated the Palace of Fine arts in Blender.
r/aiwars r on reddit
Now the top LLM can use Blender. The pencil was raised by an AI, not an AI user, but the result is the same.
@rohanpaul_ai Rohan Paul on x
Some revelations from the 117 page system card of OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra - Astra's ability to deliberately control the form of its own chain of thought jumped dramatically: 60.9% versus 16.1% for GPT-5.6 Sol at comparable reasoning lengths. -
@artificialanlys @artificialanlys on x
GPT-6 Astra makes significant gains in the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, scoring equal to Fable 5 at lower cost. In the Intelligence Index, it uses fewer tokens than GPT-5.6 Sol for similar performance, but this is outweighed by higher prices Pricing is 2.5x GPT-5.6 Sol…
@theo @theo on x
Oh my god, Gemini 3.8 Flash beat Astra on DeepSWE 💀 73.8% vs 73.3%
@hesamation @hesamation on x
some notes on Astra's surprisingly low (61) intelligence score on Artificial Analysis: it seems like Astra is extremely spiky in benchmarks, crushes some, and regresses on others. > OpenAI's benchmarks: Astra crushes Fable 5.1 and spits on it. > AA intelligence score: incredibly …
@cheatyyyy @cheatyyyy on x
GPT-6 Astra is on the pareto-frontier of cost efficiency due to being EXTREMELY token efficient. It is in a whole league of it's own. It is cheaper than Gemini 3.8 Flash per task (a model 13x cheaper than Astra).
@seanjtaylor Sean J. Taylor on x
Everyone's gotta have an Astra take, so I'll give you mine: we are making fast progress on eradicating hallucinations. This eval is not some academic benchmark; it very realistically captures user experience. https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/ ...
@stevehou Steve Hou on x
Dollar per task is dropping precipitously. I think you can be bearish on AI as an investment (cycle), and still marvel and celebrate the extraordinary technological progress made by/in artificial intelligence. The trouble with some of the AI bears is that they are so committed to…
@robdonnelly47 Rob Donnelly on x
@cheatyyyy The way the cost curve bends backwards on Arc AGI blows my mind. The Max reasoning level is so much better at solving the problems quickly that it actually costs less than if you tried with a lower reasoning effort level
@stevenheidel Steven Heidel on x
token pricing is effectively meaningless now. 3.8 flash looks 13x cheaper when measured per token, but Astra is cheaper per task since it's far more efficient. measure your costs per task, not per token.
@thsottiaux Tibo on x
Some Plus and Business users won't yet get access to Astra today, we've got you covered with a banked reset. Lands by end of day and if you create your account by 8pm PT then you'll get it too.
@clamanna Charles Lamanna on x
Our goal is to deliver the latest frontier AI models to customers the moment they're ready. Today, I'm excited to share that OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra is available on day one across Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, GitHub Copilot, and Microsoft Foundry. Astra represents an important…
@sama Sam Altman on x
GPT-6 Astra is now available to all Pro, Enterprise, and Business Premium users in Work/Codex, and is available in the API. We will start rollout to Plus and Business users next. Thank you for the patience.
@sama Sam Altman on x
GPT-6 Astra is now available to all Pro, Enterprise, and Business Premium users, and is available in the API. We will start rollout to Plus and Business users next. Thank you for the patience.
@marsfortech @marsfortech on x
GPT-6-Astra-Max “Generate a SVG of a PlayStation 4 controller as nicely done as you can” Time taken: 11m 54s No image was used
@angaisb_ Angel on x
I asked GPT-6 Astra to make a portfolio inside a console similar to a Gameboy and LOOK AT THIS It's so so so good, a huge jump from GPT-5.6
@skirano Pietro Schirano on x
You can literally drop a pin on a map ask GPT-6 to recreate the area around it in 3D and it will just do that lol
@haydenfield Hayden Field on bluesky
“[If] we look back and say, ‘When was it, really, that AGI was created?’ I think it's going to be about this time, and I think it might be about this model,” Greg Brockman said today about GPT-6 Astra, adding, “For me personally, I do think we're there.” www.theverge.com/ai-arti…
@bindureddy Bindu Reddy on x
🚨 GPT 6-Astra Is AWESOME, But Is Slightly Below Fable 5.1 - much cheaper and faster than Fable 5.1 - worse on long-running agentic loops - much better at browser use and 3D renders OpenAI is back in the game!
@sama Sam Altman on x
Now out to all Plus and Business users. Happy building!
@thsottiaux Tibo on x
OK nevermind, the team and Astra did a good job and our systems are more scalable than we anticipated. Astra is now rolled out to all Plus and Business users too. Hope you have a blast and let us know how it goes!
r/singularity r on reddit
GPT-6-Astra-Max : SVG of a PlayStation 4 controller!

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