🤖 OpenAI released Astra, describing it as its most powerful and capable AI model yet, particularly for computer and browser-based tasks. Deployment begins with Daybreak cybersecurity customers before expanding to Pro, Plus, Enterprise, Business and API users. President Greg Brockman called Astra OpenAI’s most intelligent and best-aligned model, while company benchmarks show it outperforming OpenAI’s own Sol model and Anthropic’s Fable on tasks including bug detection and codebase analysis. Astra’s use of “opaque recurrence,” however, has renewed concerns about the ability of researchers to inspect AI reasoning, with chief scientist Jakub Pachocki acknowledging that monitorability becomes more difficult as capabilities increase. Brockman has gone considerably further, saying he personally believes Astra has reached AGI — although exactly what qualifies as AGI remains, conveniently enough, open to interpretation.