**[GPT-6 Astra Released: OpenAI Claims It’s the Smartest in the World, AGI Era May Begin Here]** Beating AI News Flash: OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, its next-generation flagship model focused on computer operations and long-duration tasks. It can independently operate websites and software, completing tasks such as information retrieval, form filling, spreadsheet creation, coding, and testing in sequence. OpenAI claims this is currently the "smartest and most aligned" model in the world. In official evaluations, Astra scored 97.6% in FrontierMath Tier 4. In the ARC-AGI-3 validation test, it achieved 99.9% when paired with OpenAI's context management mechanism, and 62.7% under the unified standard framework. On Terminal-Bench 4.0, it scored 57.9%, slightly higher than Claude Fable 5.1's 55.8%. For computer operations, its OSWorld 2.0 performance improved from GPT-5.6 Sol's 65.7% to 72.6%, while simulated task completion time decreased from approximately 75 minutes to 40 minutes. Combined with the new Codex, the speed of Mind2Web tasks reached 1.9 times the previous rate. OpenAI President Greg Brockman stated that years from now, people might look back at Astra or this moment as the starting point of AGI. However, the claim of being the "smartest in the world" remains OpenAI's own assertion. In independent testing by Artificial Analysis, Astra max scored an Intelligence Index of 61, ranking 8th overall; Claude Fable 5.1 max scored 66, maintaining its lead. Astra is also OpenAI's first model to meet the Critical network security capability threshold. During testing, it identified and exploited two previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities. The initial rollout is limited to a small number of organizations. Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, API, and AWS versions will gradually become available in the coming days. [Original Link]