Perplexity CEO: GPT-6 Astra is the frontier leader, coming to Pro and Max users
inductionheads · x · 2026-09-04
Perplexity CEO Arav Srinivas congratulated OpenAI on GPT-6 Astra, calling it the industry's frontier model—far ahead of every other model on wide and deep research tasks while being more cost-effective. He says Perplexity will bring the model to Perplexity Computer for all Pro and Max users soon.
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