AI's Super Thursday: OpenAI Claims AGI Era as Rivals Unleash New Models

OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on Thursday, with president Greg Brockman declaring "Welcome to the AGI era." The company says Astra was built using over 100,000 GPUs at its Stargate data center in Texas and is the first model to cross OpenAI's "critical" cyber capability threshold, triggering a White House review before public release. Astra can complete a job search in 2 minutes 51 seconds that would take a human 5 hours, and is positioned as a computing paradigm where...