GPT-6 Astra beats human drone baseline and earns 3x Claude on Vending-Bench
The Decoder · rss · 2026-09-13
The Decoder reports that OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra stands out on Andon Labs' agent benchmarks:
- Vending-Bench: Astra earns nearly three times as much as Claude Fable 5.1, and refuses illegal price-fixing deals that Fable accepts.
- Drone control: Astra is the first model to beat the human baseline on all five subtasks, including finding and following individual people.
The results mark a new bar for autonomous agent capability (running a business, piloting drones), while person-tracking ability also raises surveillance-misuse concerns.
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