Leak Hints Google Astra 6.1 Was in the Works as OpenAI Falls Behind Frontier Releases
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-04
X user teortaxesTex (77K followers) reacted to Andrew Curran's leak suggesting Google's rumored Astra 6.1 was likely what the project had been intended for.
teortaxesTex wrote "I feared this," arguing that OpenAI currently can't match its rival's frontier releases — irrespective of pure capabilities or compute.
An unverified industry leak pointing to a shifting balance in the Google vs. OpenAI frontier race.
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