Analyst Links Astra Training to May-July Usage Spikes

@scaling01 posted a chart titled Experiment velocity has increased and stated that training of Astra likely occurred between May and late July. The account further claimed GPT-6 Astra was likely broadly available to OpenAI employees between July 12 and July 26, citing an 87 percent rise in median spending, a 169 percent rise in 90th-percentile spending, a 33 percent rise in researcher output-token usage, and a 33 percent rise in agent runtime during that window.