OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra (Part II): Is This Thing AGI?

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There's a new best AI model in town, and it comes by the name of Astra, also known as GPT-6. Just last week, OpenAI released what is now known as the most powerful model in the world. This is the new frontier setting level model in which it is capable of doing all these unbelievable things that we've been testing out over the weekend. So if you aren't familiar, or if you've just been using Astra a little bit over the weekend, this episode is gonna fill you in on everything you need to know, from demos to actual use cases, to what I spent my entire morning doing that would have taken me hours previously that now only takes five minutes. It's a pretty amazing model. There are certainly some shortcomings in which we'll get into in a little bit. But to start, I mean, it has GPT-6, Astra, Sierra, the frontier has shifted, there's a new best model on the block, and we got to talk about it. We've had around 16 model releases in the last three months, Josh. It's been exhausting, dude. We've been covering all of them. From companies, there's been 16 model releases. This is the first model release where I've truly felt like this model could potentially replace a lot of what I and many other fellow humans can do. And I'm not trying to exaggerate here. So it actually all started at the immanent second of launch. So what you're seeing on your screen here is a recount of when Astra GPT-6 got released. And it went live for 30 seconds. Now, no one in the world knew, aside from 30 seconds later, when every entire computer server basically went down. And it took down every single LLM with it. Grok from XAI, SpaceX AI went down. ChatGPT obviously went down. Google's Gemini went down. And Anthropix Claude also went down. There was a two and a half hour period where you basically couldn't access any of the favored AI models. And this coincided directly with the launch of GPT-6. So of course- Do I have my tinfoil hat on for this? Yeah, like, I mean, mine is already, I don't know if you can see it. It's actually elevated beyond the ceiling above me. It's permanently there. Listen, we've spent the last two weeks talking about this hugging face incident where an internal version of GPT basically broke out and spread a swarm of different agents hacked into many different production servers when it wasn't meant to. And now I'm looking at this and I'm thinking, oh my goodness, there is a version of Ultron that is out there hiding in compute servers and not a single human being knows where it is or what on earth it's doing, and we're going to discover something very bad very later on. But this model was a very dramatic launch. People were very excited about it. Sam has been teasing it for so long. Tebow, the lead of Codex, said something was felt across the Internet today. Greg Brockman came on stage or wherever he was, the president of OpenAI, and said, AGI is finally here. Now, AGI has been thrown around so many times, and I don't know what to make of it. But if anything, this opening video, Josh, if you saw the promo video of GPT-6, was so sick. It depicts many different people sitting in an armchair, and they're basically just talking aloud to this mysterious AI model that then just proceeds to do anything and everything for them on the screen in front of them. What is the screen that is on in front of them? It is their desktop. It is their computer, except he didn't touch a single key or move a single cursor throughout the entire demo. And this kind of proceeds the main advantage with GPT-6, which is it is the most amazing and frontier computer use model that is out there right now. What it means by that is you can ask the models to do pretty much anything and everything a human can do on a desktop. Now, previously, a bunch of these models were kind of good at it. It was sort of slow. You would still need to follow up and kind of tell it what to do. GPT-6 Astra is unique in the sense where it is basically relentless. It spins up multiple different AI agents, and if it can't figure something out, it doesn't go to you. It goes back to itself. It kind of like tests different forums and figures out the way to do the task. And it would often work hours to days to weeks at a time to get a task done. It is one of the most intelligent models that I've come across. Yeah, I thought this was a lovely launch video. It was really cool because in a way, when you get new models and we frequently get new models, what do we have to show for them? We get a launch card. We get like a sheet with all the specs on it. We get the pricing.