OpenAI begins rollout of new powerful AI model GPT-6 Astra

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Concerns about the capabilities of advanced AI models have grown since OpenAI launched the previous version of its flagship model, GPT-5, a year ago.

Published Sep 04, 2026, 03:57 AM

Updated Sep 04, 2026, 03:57 AM

OpenAI has started releasing its new AI model, GPT-6 Astra, to select customers with enhanced safety features following a recent security breach.

Astra can perform various tasks autonomously, significantly reducing time on chores like apartment hunting, signalling progress towards artificial general intelligence (AGI).

OpenAI and other organisations stress the urgent need for global coordination on AI safety and cybersecurity as risks and regulatory scrutiny increase.

SAN FRANCISCO - ChatGPT maker OpenAI said on Sept 3 it would begin rolling out its newest and most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) model to select customers, saying it had built in safeguards to mitigate security risks.

“At this level of capability, safety has to become our top priority,” OpenAI president Greg Brockman told reporters on a call about the release of GPT-6, also known as Astra.

Just over a year has passed since OpenAI launched the previous version of its flagship model, GPT-5.

Concerns about the capabilities of advanced models have grown since then, following incidents involving systems built by OpenAI and rival developer Anthropic.

OpenAI paused some model development for two weeks this summer after two models it was testing were involved in a security breach at AI platform Hugging Face.

The San Francisco-based company said Astra was developed with stronger safeguards after that incident, though Astra itself was not involved in the hack.

Some cybersecurity customers will get access to the new model on Sept 3, the company said, with a wider rollout to other paying customers to follow. Users on the free tier or the cheapest paid plan will not get access.

In a blog post, OpenAI said Astra can autonomously handle a wide range of “tedious” computer tasks, including website creation, scientific analysis, game development, cybersecurity and coding.

To illustrate the time savings of building autonomous AI agents with Astra, the company said the model could cut apartment hunting from six hours to under 10 minutes.

“It’s not unreasonable to feel that we are now in the AGI era,” Brockman said on the call, referring to artificial general intelligence, a hypothetical stage at which AI systems match human intelligence across most tasks.

OpenAI previously had an agreement with Microsoft, one of its earliest and largest investors, under which an exclusivity clause would end once OpenAI reached AGI. Those terms were scrapped in April.

OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki acknowledged there was still uncertainty about how a new model behaves once released.

“A model can become very good at achieving a goal, and it can still act in ways that go against what the person intended,” Pachocki said on the same call.

“We also have to be willing to slow down or withhold further scaling when our confidence in safety is not sufficient,” he added.

OpenAI, Anthropic and more than 100 other organisations signed an open letter last week calling for a coordinated global response to AI-related cybersecurity risks, warning that the window to strengthen cyber defences was limited.

Anthropic went further on Aug 31, calling for industry-wide coordination on safety and on the pace of developing increasingly capable models.

“I believe that shared safety standards and international coordination on further AI development need to be prioritised now,” OpenIA’s Pachocki said on Sept 3.

The US state of Alabama opened an investigation into OpenAI last week over the Hugging Face breach, his office citing what it called the company’s complete lack of oversight and adequate safeguards. AFP

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自 OpenAI 一年前推出其旗舰模型 GPT-5 的上一版本以来，人们对高级人工智能模型的能力越来越感到担忧。

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更新于2026年9月4日凌晨3:57

在最近发生安全漏洞后，OpenAI 已开始向部分客户发布其新的 AI 模型 GPT-6 Astra，该模型具有增强的安全功能。

Astra 可以自主执行各种任务，大大减少找房子等琐事所需的时间，这标志着人工智能通用性 (AGI) 取得了进展。

OpenAI 和其他组织强调，随着风险和监管审查的增加，迫切需要在全球范围内协调人工智能安全和网络安全问题。

旧金山——ChatGPT 的制造商 OpenAI 于 9 月 3 日表示，将开始向部分客户推出其最新、最强大的 AI 模型，并称已内置安全措施以降低安全风险。

OpenAI 总裁 Greg Brockman 在与记者就 GPT-6（又名 Astra）的发布进行的电话会议上表示：“在这种能力水平下，安全必须成为我们的首要任务。”

OpenAI 发布其旗舰模型 GPT-5 的上一版本至今已过去一年多。

此后，人们对高级模型的能力越来越感到担忧，此前 OpenAI 和竞争对手 Anthropic 开发的系统都发生了相关事件。

今年夏天，OpenAI 在测试的两个模型卷入 AI 平台 Hugging Face 的安全漏洞事件后，暂停了部分模型的开发工作两周。