GPT-6 Astra crushes Pokemon, Factorio, and Fallout 3 then spirals into Minecraft potato farming after one bad Creeper

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra shows a sharp jump in video games. Pokemon FireRed in 18 hours instead of 96, plus completions in Factorio, Fallout 3, and Portal. Why? The model distills experience into compact rules. But that same trait led to hours of potato farming instead of progress in Minecraft after a…

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra shows a sharp jump in video games. Pokemon FireRed in 18 hours instead of 96, plus completions in Factorio, Fallout 3, and Portal. Why? The model distills experience into compact rules. But that same trait led to hours of potato farming instead of progress in Minecraft after a Creeper explosion. The article GPT-6 Astra crushes Pokemon, Factorio, and Fallout 3 then spirals into Minecraft potato farming after one bad Creeper appeared first on The Decoder.

Source: The Decoder — Published September 17, 2026 at 14:42 UTC — Category: Models