GPT-6 Astra Intelligent UI is INSANE!
AI News Today | Julian Goldie Podcast
October 9, 2026
GPT-6 Astra Intelligent UI is INSANE!
Speakers Julian Goldie
Julian Goldie (0:00)
Today, we have a brand new update from GPT-6, which is Intelligent UI. So this is a new update for GPT-6, where basically you can trigger these interactive diagrams and interactive visualizations, as you can see right here. So, for example, you can type in, break down the design of a seven-speed bike, and then it will actually create the illustrated diagram, like you can click through, change, etc.
And this set of trained GPT-6 to compose responses using text, visuals, interactive elements, choosing how they fit together. It's really good for learning. If you need something visual, or for example, if you need to create a diagram and just get some information on it and explain things better, this could be a better way of doing it. So here's an example side by side. So in the old way with GPT-55, you would say, give me a plan for a Sunday lunch, and then it would break it down, not quite as visual, not quite as interesting. Now what it will actually do is if you say, give me a plan for this, it will break it down into visual images, then it's going to give you the dinner plan. Then from there, it's going to give you the full menu on how to plan it. It's just much more interactive as a kind of personal assistant. And then it also creates this interesting kind of, almost like a SAS tool, like a calculator here. And you can switch the number of people, and it will tell you like how much shopping you need to do, what you need to go. And then you can actually get the shopping list over here and start using that directly. Also gives you the cooking timeline. For example, here, it's like, OK, Saturday, you're going to prep. 12:30 p.m. on Sunday, you're going to start doing this. Here's what you're going to do next, blah, blah, blah. And it plans it out like a reminds me of Gemini. Gemini actually did something like this last year with the artifacts. But I would say this is probably a bit more useful, a bit more straight to the point. Also seems a lot faster. Now, one thing I will say is that it doesn't seem to trigger automatically, right? Unlike the examples that they give it. So you can see, for example, here inside the example, they break down the design of a speed bike, and then it comes and breaks down the whole thing into a nice diagram like this. When you actually test it in reality, it didn't seem to do that. It seemed to struggle completely. And then I had to paste in the details of intelligent UI, and finally I actually started building this out, and it's actually pretty nice. But previously, that was not triggering at all. Now I'm wondering, basically, Claude have something similar, like interactive diagrams, which they actually built out last year as well. Let's see if that works inside Claude, or what gives us a better result side by side with these.
So you can see here that it's going to start creating the illustration. This is pretty standard at this point. Gemini can do the same thing, and Claude can do the same thing, except the difference is with Chat Cheaper T, it didn't, and I actually tested this out twice. It didn't trigger it automatically. So we said breakdown, the design of a semi-speed bike, and it just gave us a normal breakdown here.
If we switch over to Claude, it does it automatically with no messing around. But I wouldn't say that's as nice visually as something like we saw before, which you've got over here. I think this version is much nicer, much easier to use, much more detailed, much more interactive. So it is actually useful. Like it's something you would use a lot, particularly, for example, for planning.
You can see another example here, like building our wardrobe and ideas, that sort of thing. If you're going on a trip, you can actually personalize where you're going based on the location. So let's say, for example, you go into the Amalfi Coast, April or May, and that's what you're going to do. It will actually give you the details here.
And then if we plug that in, let's see if that actually were so.
We'll come back to that in a sec. But yeah, that is much better than anything I've seen inside Claude, for example. Here's another example. So previously, you would still get images if you're planning like a road trip, but it's much more generic and it's much less interactive. With this system, way more interactive. It's actually got like a personalized itinerary showing you what it's working on, et cetera, way better.
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