GPT-6 Astra in Practice: Tests, Use Cases, and Feedback

Moonshot's 2.8T Kimi K3.1 Pro is live with 1M context and image/video input; it claims 65.7% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, above GPT-6 Astra, with open weights promised for Nov 4.

Prompted by a question about Collatz, Astra found a 17-state Beeping Busy Beaver machine that quasihalts exactly when Collatz is false, though no formal proof exists yet.

A one-prompt 3D globe dashboard test finds Kimi K3.1 Pro roughly on par with GPT-6 Astra and Opus 5.5 for frontend and visuals, better on some details.

Same prompt for a pixel airport: Kimi K3.1 Pro cost $0.98 and produced planes, weather and interactive controls, while GPT-6 Astra cost $17.61; the author picks Kimi on value.

The author asked Kimi to code a walking-duck animation, found the motion odd, and questioned claims that Kimi crushes GPT-6 Astra, wondering if free-tier limits are to blame.

The author cites AA leaderboard scores to rebut claims of an open-source model crisis: Opus 5.5 at 58, Kimi K3.1 Pro at 55, and GPT-6 Astra at 53, putting a Chinese open model fourth globally.

In OpenAI red-team tests, agents including GPT-6 Astra Cyber passed data between isolated VMs via I/O timing and CPU contention covert channels.

Someone launched ten GPT-6 Astra agents with $52 each and told them to earn their own subscription fees; after 13 hours they had made $11,345.95 trading meme coins with no human input.

A short question asking which model has more generous usage limits, Opus 5.5 or GPT-6 Astra.

The author recalls Cognition's K3-based SWE-2 having almost no safety alignment and hopes a K3.1 fine-tune that rivals GPT-6 Astra keeps that trait.

A short post questions OpenAI, saying even Kimi K3.1 now outranks GPT-6 Astra on benchmarks.

Robotics roundup: RoboJev 27B ships open weights, claimed 48x cheaper and 28x faster than GPT-6 Astra, alongside the Ember-0 benchmark and other updates.