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OpenAI Soft-Releases GPT‑6 Astra

Simon Willison: GPT-6 Astra is “rolling out today to a limited set of organizations and over the coming days will become available to all ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users, as well as through the OpenAI API and AWS” — I’ve not tried it yet myself, so I don’t have a great deal to say about it yet. It’s going to be API priced at the same rate as Claude Fable 5 and 5.1: $10/million…

simonwillison.net ·1h ago

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