OpenAI barely finished announcing GPT-6 Astra before CEO Sam Altman was apologising for how it rolled out. Hours after Thursday's launch, he called it a "messy rollout" on X, acknowledging that paying subscribers expecting immediate access were instead left waiting with no firm timeline.

OpenAI framed Astra as a "generational leap" and tied it to what executives are calling "the AGI era". But access started narrow: companies enrolled in OpenAI's Daybreak........

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