OpenAI started releasing GPT-6 Astra, describing it as the result of years of research. President Greg Brockman welcomed journalists to the AGI era and indicated the model may mark the industry's achievement of artificial general intelligence. The company highlighted advances in reasoning, coding, and computer use for tasks such as financial modeling and engineering design. OpenAI also noted stronger guardrails after prior models were involved in a Hugging Face incident. Access began with participants in its cybersecurity program. Researchers at the company shared benchmark results on health tasks and comparisons to earlier versions.