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

The author asked Astra to generate a Moog Model-D emulation for Max for Live, adding velocity response and a dedicated vibrato LFO, and was surprised by how convincing the result was.

The post quotes Jensen Huang saying the jump from ChatGPT to o1 to Astra took just four years, and notes that 400K GPUs are incoming.

The author asked ChatGPT-6 Astra to play Geometry Dash on their behalf, left for two hours, and came back to see the result it produced.

Cartoonist Zach Weiner jokes that Astra-6 beat Rimworld and Portal, saying AI can finally play video games so humans are freed up for additional toil.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said AGI has arrived and that GPT-6 Astra was trained on roughly 100K+ NVIDIA Grace Blackwell NVLink72 GPUs, with another 400K coming online next.

An OpenAI employee, concerned by the volume of misunderstanding in the comments, suggested that people with doubts go ask Astra directly.

He said Astra was trained on 100K+ Grace Blackwell NVLink72 GPUs, that it took only four years to go from ChatGPT to o1 to Astra, and that 400K more GPUs are coming online next.

A Spanish-language video post marvels that ChatGPT-6 Astra can grab a website, convert it into an app, publish it to iOS and get it running with no human involved.

A teacher asked ChatGPT's Astra to convert his Thomist philosophy lectures into a PDF for students and add Jesuit works from the University of Salamanca, while he spent time with his kids.

With Pro at $200 a month and Plus at $20, the only real difference right now is who gets Astra first, and that queue is the best upgrade ad OpenAI ever ran.

Synara v0.8.2 lets users access GPT-6 Astra through their ChatGPT subscription, alongside big speedups in rendering, diff sorting and file tree building.

The author had ChatGPT and Claude debate their way through a research task while he ate, calling the Astra plus Fable 5.1 combo dangerous and noting work has crept into daily life.