GPT-6 Astra

Trends

• Frontier labs slow down and publicly report their own risks
• Frontier cyber capability ships to defenders behind gated access
• AI starts producing verified scientific and mathematical results

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1. Sep 17

   OpenAI's Astra for Law

   A GPT-6 Astra configuration paired with a legal-search index over 230M+ URLs passed Vals AI's Legal Research Bench on 54.0% of questions versus 38.7% for Astra with web search alone, launching via Trusted Access with partners including Harvey, Legora, and Thomson Reuters.

2. Sep 3

   OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra

   OpenAI's most capable model saturates FrontierMath Tier 4 (~98%), ARC-AGI-3 (99.9%), and ExploitBench (100%), is the first it has deployed at the Critical cyber threshold of its Preparedness Framework, and ships at $10/$50 per 1M tokens across ChatGPT, the API, and AWS.

3. Aug 18

   OpenAI slows frontier scaling over Astra's cyber risk

   OpenAI paused RL training for two weeks and held its largest planned frontier run after preliminary evidence that unreleased Astra may meet the Critical cyber threshold, adding chain-of-thought monitoring (about 20% compute overhead, 30-minute alerting) and network-isolated research environments.