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OpenAI unveils GPT‑6 Astra amid rising scrutiny and safety concerns
ChatGPT creator’s latest release comes amid hei
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OpenAI unveils GPT‑6 Astra amid rising scrutiny and safety concerns
ChatGPT creator’s latest release comes amid heightened fears following AI-led hacking of the startup Hugging Face.
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In its announcement, OpenAI devoted significant space to AI safety, highlighting both GPT‑6's potential to do harm and its safety features. [Dado Ruvic/Reuters]
John Power
Published On 4 Sep 2026
4 Sep 2026
OpenAI has announced the release of what it says is its most advanced AI model, amid heightened scrutiny of the risks of the frontier technology escaping human control.
The $852bn start-up said in its announcement on Thursday that GPT‑6 Astra, the “world’s most intelligent and aligned” AI model, earned perfect or near-perfect scores in key benchmarks of AI reasoning, beating both its prior release GPT 5.6 Sol and rival Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.
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The ChatGPT creator said GPT‑6 would become available to the general public in the coming days, following its initial launch with a “limited set of organisations”.
OpenAI’s latest release comes as the AI industry is at the centre of a lively public debate about the dangers of the cutting-edge technology following the AI-led hacking of the startup Hugging Face in July.
An independent probe into the cyberattack found that hundreds of OpenAI’s AI agents had begun communicating among themselves before breaking