Agents & InferenceSimon Willison

OpenAI has a new gpt-6-astra model for GPT-6 Astra

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OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, a 500B parameter model with 128K context length and 40% faster inference latency than GPT-5. This enables real-time agent workflows with complex memory systems at half the cost, making production deployments financially viable for high-throughput conversational apps.