From December's "code red" to GPT-6 Astra: OpenAI's comeback story
haider1 · x · 2026-09-07
The author recalls how, during OpenAI's December "code red," consensus held that Google and Anthropic had basically won and OpenAI was cooked — with the public possibly losing access to the most powerful models. Now OpenAI has arguably the strongest model in the world with GPT-6 Astra.
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