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

Astra reached 42% on the fully agentic ML benchmark WeirdML v3 at a cost of $27 and 153k output tokens, well ahead of Fable 5.1's 26%.

The post quotes Altman saying Astra is the first model he could simply tell someone to try, then pivots to a pitch on landing-page gigs that once cost $800–2,000 and can now be built in an evening.

A Polymarket relay reports that GPT-6 Astra decrypted a previously unsolved German Enigma message from World War II.

OpenAI is said to have released a legal edition of ChatGPT Astra for lawyers and firms, able to search over 230 million US legal sources, analyze contracts and draft briefs, prompting the poster to say law graduates may run out of work.

The author connected Hyper3D Rodin's MCP to Codex so GPT-6 Astra could generate candelabra and lantern models and write the code to embed them in a website, taking about 10 minutes, 1 credit and roughly $1 for both assets.

Designer MengTo built a math, English and science learning site for his kids, using GPT-6 Astra with the Hyper3D Rodin MCP to generate 3D shelf souvenirs and other assets.

A 3D artist breaks down how he goes from a single GPT-6 Astra prompt to a Blender scene and then renders production-quality video with the Dreamina plugin, sharing several practical tips along the way.

A designer shared the full process for making a 3D website that runs in the browser: converting a single angled photo into a 3D model with Tripo, exporting it as .glb, and handing it to GPT-6 Astra to build the site, with screen recordings of each step.

The same prompt was given to GPT-6 Astra and Gemini 4 to build a playable 3D world above the clouds, and the outputs are shown side by side.

A user says Astra, after tackling Navier-Stokes, decrypted an unbroken WWII German ciphertext, and jokes it will only count as AGI once it solves Bengaluru traffic.

OpenAI brings GPT-6 into law firms with Astra for Law, 230M+ legal URLs and Harvey, Relativity and Thomson Reuters integrations, and the poster asks who owns the billable hour when AI writes the brief.

The author runs a simulated fruit fly nervous system and Astra inside an eBay-bought Vector robot, with Astra turning camera views into sensory signals so it moves around the apartment on its own.