BREAKING:

OpenAI just dropped GPT-6 ASTRA!!! 🚀✨

We’ve been testing it extensively at @every across coding, writing, and knowledge work. My take: it’s a big upgrade from 5.6-Sol, with some frustrating habits that keep it from matching Fable at the top end.

Here’s your vibe check:

• The best writing model I’ve tried. It’s fast, produces very little slop, and is easy to steer. It’s a good companion for actually working through the writing I do every day. (Not to mention, it one-shotted the first draft of its own vibe check today!)

• The computer use is wild. It can go for hours at a time using complicated apps to get work done. It did the first cut of our Fable 5.1 vibe check video…kind of mindblowing

• Impressive 3D games and visualizations. It can make beautiful 3D worlds from a single prompt. I one-shotted a historically accurate rendition of the Battle of Waterloo

• It can overcomplicate things. (Especially at higher effort levels.) Ask for a simple interface and you get extra labels, buttons, and features everywhere. It has a habit of turning everything into a landing page.

It just doesnt quite match Fable’s ability to intuitively understand your prompt and do something delightful (without overcomplicating.)

Net Result: If you already live in ChatGPT for Work or Codex and can afford it, it’s an easy upgrade from 5.6-Sol.

The biggest proof of Astra’s effectiveness at helping you do work is our vibe check. We found out it was launching at 3 AM this morning, and had a 4,000 word vibe check + video done by 2 PM. Not possible without this model.

I’m reaching for Astra all day, but Fable 5.1 still gets my biggest tasks. On ambitious builds, Fable is better at understanding what I want and taking it further than I would have thought to ask.

State of Play:

Astra is launching to Enterprise customers today, and the rest of ChatGPT users over the coming days. Now, both OpenAI and Anthropic have a higher class of models that cost more to use. That changes who gets to use frontier AI and how.

It’s also a new vector of competition between them: Fable and Astra are priced at the same level. We’ll see what that means for adoption in the coming days and weeks.

read our full vibe check @every today: https://every.to/vibe-check/gpt-6-astra-vibe-check?utm_source=danx&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=gpt_6_astra…

Vibe Check: GPT-6 Astra Is a Big Upgrade With Some Bad Habits

Source: https://every.to/vibe-check/gpt-6-astra-vibe-check?utm_source=danx&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=gpt_6_astra GPT-6 Astra wrote the first draft of this Vibe Check from a single prompt. Every’s cofounder and CEO,Dan Shipper, thought I had written it.

“Tbh I didn’t realize this wasn’t you,” he wrote when I shared the draft.

My response: “RIP my job.”

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