OpenAI unveils GPT-6 Astra, a computer-use agent that does anything on your PC

OpenAIDevs · x · 2026-09-05

OpenAI officially unveiled GPT-6 Astra, pitched as a general computer-use agent: "Anything you can do on a computer, Astra can do for you. Fast."

Third-party account flowith shared a side-by-side comparison of GPT-6 Astra vs GPT-5.6 on animation tasks, with the full demo set to go live on its platform soon, showing how the new generation handles animation work compared to GPT-5.6.

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