GPT-6Astra Announced: 8-Day Continuous Tasks, 1/5 the Tokens of Claude Opus 5
歸藏的AI工具箱 · wechat · 2026-09-04
The author reports GPT-6Astra has been announced but isn't usable yet. Architecture changes plus plans to grant access to all paid users (including Plus) with 100% allocatable quota mean substantial deployment work; compensation resets can be banked rather than applied immediately.
Demos highlight extreme task duration: one user had it build a ROM for the Xiaomi 17Ultra, running 8 days and dispatching over 1,600 sub-agents. Its 3D modeling is also striking—near-WYSIWYG Blender modeling, environment building and rendering, strong for Unreal 5/Unity game work—which the author sees as a major blow to 3D-generation and video models.
Pricing: 2.5x that of 5.6, with 90% discount on cache reads; it uses 1/5 the tokens of Claude Opus 5 for the same tasks, matching its scores at under half the cost.
Related event: OpenAI launches flagship GPT-6 Astra to rave reviews and pricing debates(190 posts)→
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