Ask HN: Why are OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down? Coincidence?

OpenAI has released its latest artificial intelligence model, GPT-6 Astra, which the company claims is its most powerful and capable model yet. According to OpenAI, Astra is faster and capable of performing more tasks than any prior iteration, including tax preparation, game development, architectural rendering, and legal memo formatting.

The model is priced at $10 per 1 million input tokens and $50 per 1 million output tokens, matching Anthropic's pricing for Claude Fable 5.1, as reported by The Deep View. OpenAI president Greg Brockman stated that Astra is the company's "most intelligent and, also very importantly, our most aligned model yet."

Astra is being made available to OpenAI customers that use its cybersecurity program, Daybreak, and will also be available through OpenAI's paid plans and API over the next week. The company has instituted new safeguards to make Astra a safer experience for users, and has tested the model on various security benchmarks to ensure its capabilities.

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