gpt-6-astra

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GPT-6 Astra is OpenAI's latest reasoning model, designed for complex problem-solving, coding, agentic workflows, and enterprise knowledge work. Compared to previous generations, Astra delivers significant improvements in coding, intent understanding, browsing, connectors, computer use, and document-centric workflows, while supporting up to 1,050,000 total context tokens for large-scale analysis and long-running tasks.

• Advanced Reasoning – Performs deep, multi-step reasoning for complex problem solving and decision support.
• Agentic Workflows – Plans, executes, and coordinates multi-step tasks using tools and long-running workflows.
• Long-Context Understanding – Supports up to 1M tokens for analyzing large documents, repositories, and knowledge bases.
• Advanced Coding & Engineering – Excels at code generation, debugging, software design, and technical problem solving.
• Knowledge Work & Content Creation – Strong performance on document creation, presentations, research synthesis, and file-based workflows.
• Browsing & Connected Intelligence – Enhanced browsing, retrieval, connector, and file-search capabilities for information discovery and synthesis.
• Computer Use & Automation – Supports computer-use scenarios and tool-enabled workflow automation.
• Enhanced Safety & Alignment – Incorporates updated safety training, Bio/Cyber safeguards, and improved monitoring protections.

• Complex reasoning, planning, and decision support
• Software development, code generation, and repository analysis
• Research, knowledge discovery, and information synthesis
• Enterprise productivity and knowledge management workflows
• Document, presentation, and content creation
• Workflow automation using tools, agents, and connected systems
• Computer-use and task execution across applications
• Data analysis, reporting, and business operations support

• Fine-tuning
• Reinforcement fine-tuning graders
• Predicted outputs
• Deprecated local-shell tooling