OpenAI

Summary: Five Days of Receipts Finished Portal on its own. 3,336 tool calls, roughly 21 hours, a $571.18 token bill. Launched a rocket in Factorio Space Age 2.1. No model had ever pushed past blue science before. Beat Pokémon in 18h 12m. GPT-5.6 Sol needed 96h 35m for the same run. Scored 19 out of 20 on a robot arm, at $0.94 per attempt. Produced 3,295 editable objects in Blender from a single prompt. What ties them together: every one of these has a price tag, and it is not small. The launch write-up covered the benchmark table, the pricing and the access rules. Five days on, the picture has changed: instead of OpenAI’s slides, we can now look at what people actually got the model to do. ...

Summary: Where to Find Astra Not free. Free and Go plans do not include Astra; their default model stays GPT-5.6 Luna. On Plus, Astra does not appear in regular Chat. Access arrives through ChatGPT Work and Codex. On Pro, Business and Enterprise, it shows up in the model picker under the Pro option, labelled GPT-6 Pro. The model underneath is Astra. Enterprise workspaces get it off by default at launch. An admin has to enable it. Codex CLI 0.153.0 or newer is required, and the desktop app needs updating too. In the API the model id is gpt-6-astra: 1.05M token context, 128K output, $10 in / $50 out per million tokens. Our GPT-6 Astra launch write-up covered what the model is, the benchmark table and the price tag. Two days later the question landing in the inbox is a different one: “I pay for Plus, there is no Astra anywhere in my model picker, where is it?” ...

GPT-6 Astra in 30 Seconds GPT-6 Astra is OpenAI’s new flagship, announced on September 3, 2026. The company calls it “the world’s most intelligent and aligned model”. There is no Sol/Terra/Luna split this time. The lineup is Astra and Astra Pro. API pricing is $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens: 2.5x GPT-5.6 Sol’s promotional price, and identical to Claude Fable 5.1. The scores are high but footnoted. The headline 98.6% on ARC-AGI-3 came from a custom harness; the same model scores 62.7% on the standard one. Astra is the first OpenAI model to cross the Critical cybersecurity threshold in the Preparedness Framework. Standard access refuses parts of that work outright. Rollout is staged: Daybreak enterprise customers first, then Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, the API and AWS. Pro, Business and Enterprise also get Astra Pro. OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra today, September 3, 2026. At the press briefing, president Greg Brockman first conceded that AGI remains a “gray, fuzzy thing”, then went ahead anyway: “I think it’s not unreasonable to feel that we are now in the AGI era.” He closed with the same line: “Welcome to the AGI era.” ...

Summary: GPT-5.6-Cyber in 30 Seconds GPT-5.6-Cyber is a version of GPT-5.6 Sol trained to be far more permissive on cybersecurity work. Announced on August 10, 2026. It is not publicly available. Only verified security firms and researchers in the Daybreak Red tier can use it. In testing it answered 95% of advanced cyber requests. Standard GPT-5.6 Sol answered just 1.5%. It sits at the High capability level under OpenAI’s Preparedness Framework. The delayed Astra model is the one at the Critical threshold. OpenAI has announced a noticeably less restricted model for cyber defenders: GPT-5.6-Cyber. It is a variant of GPT-5.6 Sol tuned for cybersecurity workflows, and it is closed to ordinary ChatGPT users. ...

Hello everyone! In this guide we take a close look at OpenAI.fm: what it is, how to use it, which voices are available, and what the audio models behind it cost in 2026. Let’s dive in! 🎙️ First, have a listen. The clip below was generated on OpenAI.fm in a few seconds: OpenAI.fm sample: Ash voice, warm podcast host instruction 0:00 What Is OpenAI.fm? OpenAI.fm is an interactive web platform where anyone can try OpenAI’s text-to-speech models for free. Open openai.fm in your browser, type some text, and it speaks it out loud in seconds. The interesting part: you control not just what the voice says, but how it says it (tone, speed, emotion, character). ...