OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, a frontier model built to operate computers directly. It works across browsers, spreadsheets, websites and desktop applications. It can fill forms, update CRM records, run web research and produce documents. OpenAI says this reduces the need for hand-built connectors to each business system. President Greg Brockman told a press briefing that the company is now in the AGI era. Rollout starts Thursday for enterprise customers in the Daybreak gated program. Paid ChatGPT tiers, the OpenAI API, AWS Bedrock and Microsoft Azure follow in coming days. Brockman argued buyers should compare price per completed task rather than per token. OpenAI omitted GDPval, its own benchmark for real-world occupational work. OpenAI also paused some frontier training for about two weeks after the Hugging Face incident and tightened infrastructure controls.
What changed
Connecting models to business systems required purpose-built API integrations and connectors.
What it unlocks
Delegating multi-step work that runs directly inside browsers, spreadsheets and desktop apps.
- 72.6% vs 65.7% on OSWorld 2.0 subset
- $10/$50 per 1M input/output tokens
- 57% lower API cost per task
- 0% vs 48.2% exceeded authorized scope
What you need to act on it
- Daybreak gated enterprise access at first
- ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business or Enterprise, or API access
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