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

A reply notes the official statement described an RL run that resumed on August 28 rather than started, and mentions unverified rumors that OpenAI has a post-Astra base model.

He judges from repeated hints by OpenAI staff that it is a new pretrained model, saying it surpassed Astra and solved Navier-Stokes less than two weeks into pretraining.

An interior design prompt thread claims Astra can redo an entire home design from a single photo, with 7 prompts to try.

A video shows GPT-6 Astra connected to TradingView so the AI researches, backtests and executes trades on its own, billed as a fully automated trading firm.

An Arabic post shares 10 Astra prompts it says will change how you think, and suggests saving them.

OpenAI's official writing guide for GPT-6 Astra names clichés like delve and leverage, and bans the "not X but Y" construction and "In short" endings.

A Chinese post says people use Astra to speed up stock picking and includes a copy-paste prompt plus a WeChat article link.

A promotional post says Astra on ZenMux can handle repo-wide debugging, browser research and document creation across tools, suiting AI agent use cases.

An Indian tech account posted a screen recording of ChatGPT Astra operating the IRCTC railway booking site to complete a ticket purchase.

A Chinese user says Astra with ComfyUI produces white-model renders that reproduce facial expressions, hair strands and clothing textures, far beyond the blocky outlines of earlier attempts.

An on-site photo post says GPT-6 Astra is at the museum of technology killing mutants, a casual record of an interactive exhibit installation.

Astra can now be called through NEAR AI's Incognito mode, where OpenAI sees requests coming from NEAR AI rather than individual users, aimed at long-horizon agentic tasks.