Rumor: Astra's top reasoning tier still trails OpenAI's internal model at its lowest

Token Gremlin @TokenGremlinOriginally posted 2026.09.21

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“GPT-6 Astra / Pro at its MAXIMUM reasoning effort is INFERIOR to OpenAI’s Internal Model at its MINIMUM reasoning effort.” Honestly, the amount of compute they’d need to launch something like that by Christmas is insane. I don’t even know if it’s feasible, but they’ve pulled off engineering miracles before, so... we’ll see.