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Act VI · The frontier and its limits

Closed modelOpenAI

GPT-6 (Astra / Sol / Luna)

On September 3 OpenAI launched its strongest model, GPT-6 Astra, to a small group of organizations, opening a restricted version to paid users the next day; the smaller Sol and Luna followed on September 22.

$10 / $50Astra per million input / output tokens

Why it matters

As with Mythos, the top tier was held back at first because of its cybersecurity abilities; from October, Sol and Luna became ChatGPT's default models for paid and free users.

Costs and controversy

The public version of Astra is restricted and refuses some cybersecurity requests.

Built on

GPT-5.5

Source: openai.com ↗

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