OpenAI: GPT-6 is totally Artificial General Intelligence, guys
OpenAI has announced the latest very slight tweak of its chatbot models — GPT-6 Astra! [OpenAI] This is a minor update of GPT-5. They nearly called it GPT-5.7, but Anthropic’s been marketing its new Fable model as a hacker in a box, so OpenAI needs a big splash. Also, GPT-6 Astra has attained…
OpenAI has announced the latest very slight tweak of its chatbot models — GPT-6 Astra! [OpenAI] This is a minor update of GPT-5. They nearly called it GPT-5.7, but Anthropic’s been marketing its new Fable model as a hacker in a box, so OpenAI needs a big splash. Also, GPT-6 Astra has attained artificial general intelligence! Apparently. What does Astra do? Well. It passes benchmarks they trained it against real good. So the important thing about chatbot benchmarks is they’re fake. We’ve actually caught OpenAI at this one before. OpenAI’s o3 model beat the FrontierMath benchmark, because OpenAI paid to make the benchmark and got the questions ahead of time. Training on the questions sure does save a lot of faffing about. This is an industry, you understand. The purpose of benchmarks is to generate headlines for press releases. So I’m looking through OpenAI’s announcement and the GPT-6 model card. And it’s all benchmarks. Mostly ones nobody’s heard of before. Sure does sound impressive! If you don’t know every guy on Reddit r/localllama does the same benchmarkmaxxing on their models. [OpenAI] There’s no actual specifications for the GPT-6 model. OpenAI doesn’t give Astra’s parameter count, they don’t say how big its context window is — apparently it’s a million tokens — and they don’t give an estimate of its token cost per query. But so what, GPT-6 is AGI now! The Verge reprints fidelitously: [Verge, archive] “If we fast-forward a couple of years, and we look back and say, ‘When was it, really, that AGI was created?’ I think it’s going to be about this time, and I think it might be about this model,” OpenAI president Greg Brockman said during a Thursday press briefing. Later in the call, he added, “For me personally, I do think we’re there … I think it’s not unreasonable to feel that we are now in the AGI era.” Somehow, nobody at the Verge could find it in themselves to interrogate this gibberish. And just a couple of days ago, Sam Altman from OpenAI said on the Sources podcast about the phrase “AGI”: [Guardian] At best it’s a very poorly defined term. I was going to say it’s like an irrelevant marketing term. Pity he didn’t tell Greg, hey. The other important news is that OpenAI has totally put anti-hacking guard rails on Astra, guys, after the company confessed to even more computerised felonies. [BBC] This comes after Anthropic had hyped up Mythos as the greatest hacking tool — sorry, computer security tool — in the world, showing just how much fuzzing you can do if you spend a fortune on every fuzzing run. But what does GPT-6 Astra mean, for the world? It means the obvious — it’s marketing for OpenAI’s attempt at an initial public offering on the stock market. The moat protecting OpenAI’s business used to be computing power. No one could be as big as OpenAI. Here in late 2026, OpenAI’s moat is Altman’s ability to fundraise and how much the company’s investors suffer from sunk cost fallacy. OpenAI only just got together the early 2026 funding round. Another round of fundraising will be pretty hard. OpenAI’s only way out will be a successful IPO. But for that, OpenAI needs account books that don’t suck. The prospects are not great, given their executives keep jumping ship. That’s not a mark of confidence. GPT-6 exists to keep the plates spinning just that little bit longer. Trust in Sam. Next model, bro. This one will totally be AGI. Don’t be left behind. Video — PodcastSource: Pivot to AI — Published — Category: Business