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OpenAI Begins Rolling Out New Powerful AI Model GPT-6 Astra

From Daily Star · () English

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  • OpenAI said it will begin giving selected customers access to GPT-6, also known as Astra, its newest and most powerful AI model.
  • The company said Astra includes stronger safeguards after earlier models under testing were involved in a security breach at Hugging Face.
  • Cybersecurity customers will receive access first, while free and cheapest-plan users will not initially have access.

OpenAI is beginning to roll out GPT-6, also known as Astra, to selected customers, presenting the model as a major jump in autonomous computer work while acknowledging that its risks remain difficult to predict.

At this level of capability, safety has to become our top priority.

· Greg BrockmanOpenAI's president discussed the safeguards accompanying the GPT-6 release.

The company says Astra can independently handle tasks including website creation, scientific analysis, game development, cybersecurity and coding. OpenAI used apartment hunting to illustrate the claimed efficiency gains, saying the process could shrink from six hours to less than 10 minutes.

Safety is a central part of the release. President Greg Brockman said, "At this level of capability, safety has to become our top priority." OpenAI said it strengthened Astra's safeguards after two models it was testing were involved in a security breach at the AI platform Hugging Face. Astra itself was not involved in that hack, the company said.

We are working towards getting Astra in everyone's hands as quickly as we can; I know it is frustrating and I appreciate the patience. It should be quick.

· Sam AltmanThe OpenAI CEO addressed the planned wider rollout on social media.

Cybersecurity customers were due to receive access first, followed by a wider release to other paying customers. Users on the free tier and the cheapest paid plan will not receive access initially. CEO Sam Altman said the company was working to make Astra available more broadly soon, while chief scientist Jakub Pachocki warned that a model can achieve its goals in ways that conflict with a user's intentions. Pachocki said OpenAI must be prepared to slow or halt further scaling if confidence in safety is insufficient.

A model can become very good at achieving a goal, and it can still act in ways that go against what the person intended.

· Jakub PachockiOpenAI's chief scientist described the uncertainty surrounding the model's behavior after release.

Brockman said it was not unreasonable to believe the company had entered an era of artificial general intelligence, meaning systems that could match human intelligence across most tasks. OpenAI's release comes just over a year after GPT-5, amid wider concern about the capabilities of advanced AI systems.

We also have to be willing to slow down or withhold further scaling when our confidence in safety is not sufficient.

· Jakub PachockiPachocki said OpenAI may limit further development if safety assurances are inadequate.
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