OpenAI ships GPT-6 Astra with three new agent-building API updates
gabrielchua · x · 2026-09-05
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra alongside three new API updates aimed at building agents. The accompanying model guide includes prompting best practices, with docs covering the Responses API, multi-agent orchestration, background mode, guardrails and evals.
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