Plus users say Astra brought almost nothing new to Chat
The author says Plus users only got a small taste of GPT-6 Astra through Codex and ChatGPT Work, and that OpenAI staff appear to be hinting at a Chat-specific model variant, a new routing tier, or a rethink of Chat.
I pushed pretty hard on one particular complaint after the GPT-6 Astra rollout: Plus users felt overlooked because they got almost nothing new in Chat itself, only a small taste of GPT-6 Astra through Codex and ChatGPT Work. Those posts clearly reached OpenAI. I noticed several people there saw them, and some employees even liked them. Now they’ve started vagueposting about something related specifically to Chat, not Work or Codex again. My current read is that they may be preparing one of three things: → a Chat-specific model variant → a new routing / model tier for Chat → a broader rethink of the Chat experience itself And there’s another reason I’m paying attention: Tibo was replying to Matthew Berman, someone I consider pretty reliable and who regularly gets to test things early. So no, I’m not treating this as confirmation yet. But I definitely don’t think they’re talking about “Chat” for no reason. And if you’ve followed me for a while, you know I rarely drop an issue after one post. If something keeps affecting users, I’ll keep raising it publicly and privately until someone actually engages with it.
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