Green-text meme recaps OpenAI's chaotic Astra launch: hype, delay, and a press leak
TAbrodi · x · 2026-09-04
A satirical greentext post walks through OpenAI's messy GPT-6 Astra rollout: weeks of hype, a last-minute switch to limited release, an "AGI era" declaration, a morning teaser — then a delay that was never communicated to the press, who ended up covering a launch that hadn't happened yet.
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