OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Astra: An Agent That Can Do Anything on Your Computer
astralmatrix · x · 2026-09-04
OpenAI officially unveiled GPT-6 Astra, positioning it as a fast general-purpose computer-use agent: "Anything you can do on a computer, Astra can do for you. Fast." The announcement quickly drew viral jokes about laptops and programmers being replaced.
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