AI News in 5 Mins: GPT-6 Astra

0:00 What do we have right here is GPT6 Astro, which is a new generation of intelligence. And the president, Greg Brockman of OpenAI, called this a generational leap and said could

0:10 eventually be seen as the arrival of artificial general intelligence or AGI. Now, quick timeline because I think this is pretty funny. September 1st, 1 p.m., we got Fable 5.1, and everyone's been

0:21 kind of freaking out. It's been all over X and YouTube since it dropped. And then two hours later at 3:30 p.m. on the same day, OpenI made this tweet which said, "As we prepare to release Astra, we're

0:32 focused on making increasingly capable AI safe and broadly accessible." And they put out this whole blog. It shows some benchmarks about how much better Astra is than 5.6 Soul, which is an

0:42 amazing model. I've been using codeex with 5.6 Soul to honestly drive most of my day-to-day. Anyways, let's go back to this post. They dropped this video on X today and they only dropped the first

0:52 like 12 seconds of it. Now, it's really interesting because today, September 3rd, at 10 a.m., pretty much every AI model went down. Claude, OpenAI, Grock, Cursor, and right after these all went

1:01 down, that's when OpenAI and CHAGBT dropped these two videos on X that obviously blew up because everyone was like, "Oh my gosh, Astra's coming today." And this video right here that

1:10 they originally dropped was the introduction. It was this first part of this video right here. >> Create a yellow circle there. >> Done.

1:18 >> Okay, take this and make it look like a rocket. I like this video to take a lot more detail. >> Your yellow circle is now a window on a

1:25 rocket. >> Okay, this is awesome. Now, make a 3D model in >> opening letter. Let's build a

1:31 >> Anyways, if you guys want to watch the rest of that video, you can obviously get to it here at this page. But anyways, what happened? We are introducing GBT6 Astra, the world's most

1:39 intelligent and aligned model. This model brings together years of research and big bets across pre-training, reinforcement learning, and alignment. Astra was supposedly trained on over a

1:49 100,000 GPUs at Texas Stargate site which is apparently the most amount of training that has ever gone into a model and it is rolling out today but only to a limited set of organizations and I

2:01 think this is through their daybreak program or maybe it's called Daybreak Access but this will be not available to us yet. It said it will be available to us in the coming days to chatb plus pro

2:11 business and enterprise users and through openi API and AWS. So absolutely cannot wait to get my hands on that. But the benchmarks here are insane how much better this thing is apparently than

2:21 Claude Fable 5.1 and for cheaper on all of these different benchmarks. It is pretty ridiculous. Astra is our most aligned model with substantial improvements in understanding user

2:30 intent and model behavior. You can delegate tasks with greater confidence in Astra's judgment. As one way that we test this, we built a new evaluation informed by the hugging face incident

2:39 that evaluates whether a model facing difficult or impossible task will go beyond its intended scope. And compared to GBG516 Soul, which without production safeguards went beyond the authorized

2:49 target 48% of the time, Astra didn't do this at all. So it seems to be much more safe, meaning its intent to exploit is much lower. It's also apparently the famous browser use logo from OpenAI, the

3:04 world's best computer use model, which is insane because GBZ 5.6 Soul is already so so good at browser use and computer use, but apparently it's a new frontier here for computer use. This

3:14 screen spot pro benchmark, you can see this is insanely high. It obviously is a little bit more expensive than Soul here, but it is scoring like a 92%. And this is basically can the model locate

3:24 in a screenshot the right areas to click or the right areas that it needs to analyze or look at. And obviously it scores much higher here than Soul as well as Opus 5 and for much cheaper than

3:35 Opus 5. Now there are so many benchmarks here that are insanely impressive. They're blowing a bunch of other models out of the water here with Astra. But of course that's what every single release

3:44 blog of a model looks like. It always is the best, the cheapest, the smartest, the fastest, a new frontier, a new step of intelligence. So, I just cannot wait to get my hands dirty and actually put

3:54 it headto-head against Fable 5.1 and against 5.6 Soul. But, I really think the timeline on all this was really funny, really interesting. These videos dropped and then we saw inside of

4:04 Codeex, we saw the tags come through GBD6 Astra and GBD6 Astra AON. And then later today is where we saw this quote come out with Greg Brockman and talking about why this matters. And we saw a

4:14 bunch of different news articles and things. Someone also said that GBT6 somehow has them more hype than GTA 6, which I thought was kind of funny. We see these two blog posts came out and

4:22 then they actually ended up being taken away. So then if you went to that address, you couldn't get there. Then we saw these other benchmarks come out and then we get this information about this

4:31 being released just to people inside of the Daybreak Access program. Now, right now it seems like the pricing is going to be double that of 5.6 Soul. So similar to where Fable 5.1 is. And is

4:42 this the model that puts them ahead of Enthropic? That's what I can't wait to find out because as of lately, I have been using Codex more. Fable 5.1 now, of course, I've been using that a lot. But

4:51 this model in the Codex harness, if it truly is where the benchmarks show it is, this might really start to like skyrocket OpenAI and Codeex right back to where they were kind of when you

5:01 think like 2023, 2024. Overall, I think that this launch has been pretty weird. like it feels like they always kind of and by they I mean open eye and anthropic they wait to just stack

5:12 updates and releases on top of each other so that they kind of like own the news and the media and YouTube and everything but this one has just felt a little bit odd to me. I don't know. I'm

5:20 really excited to see when we get it. It says, you know, over the next coming days. Hopefully we get that very very soon. And I don't know. I think OpenAI probably played this really well because

5:28 I think, you know, GBT6 is going to have way more virality and hype around it than I think Fable 5.1 will once this thing drops. So, I'll keep you guys updated obviously, but that's going to

5:38 do it. Appreciate you guys making it to the end. I'll see you in the next one.