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

A leak says Astra 6.1 still has unresolved safety issues with a late-October release still possible, and that OpenAI paused frontier RL, delaying a larger next pretrain.

A user says OpenAI is slightly behind, missing its cancelled GPT-6.1 Astra, and criticizes incomplete Dots, thin Plus/Pro value, delayed EU rollouts and slower models.

A user speculates the Codex team is prepping Astra 6.1 for a Monday release and expects OpenAI to ship the next new model.

A Persian post says DeepSeek Harness raises V4.1 Flash by 2-3 points at ~80% higher cost, while GPT-6 Astra leads the comparison at 45 over Opus 5.5 and Muse.

A music video made with Seedance2.5 and Suno V6, with lyrics by GPT-6-Astra Max, jokes about GPT-6.1's 28-day development.

A video post calls DeepSeek's launch cheap and fast, recalling that OpenAI marketed Astra's 3D capability as AGI last month.

On the Space Train benchmark Astra took 40m18s and $14.37 versus 2h07m and $0.40 for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, prompting doubts over Astra's price.

A Turkish post claims Fable 5.5 arrives this week alongside an OpenAI response, guessing an Astra-caliber model could come cheaper.

A team gave Astra camera feeds and arm-control tools for the NIST gear assembly task; it could pick up the gear but failed to align it with the peg, and they shared their setup and prompting lessons.

A product manager paying $200/month uses Astra Pro only for emails; a colleague lists 11 overlooked agentic, computer-use and research features.

A critic says OpenAI allocates only 10% of compute to safety, too little to quickly fix GPT-6.1 Astra alignment.

The poster clarifies that the hyped Astra, Sol and Luna checkpoints are image models only, with no new general-purpose model yet to answer Opus 5.5.