GPT-6 Astra arrives in Visual Studio Copilot Chat

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GPT-6 Astra from OpenAI is now available in Visual Studio. Designed for long-horizon, autonomous coding and agentic tasks, GPT-6 Astra plans and validates as it works, combines diagnosis with verification, and independently confirms its results. Try it in Copilot Chat: https://msft.it/6013aVSNv #VisualStudio #GitHubCopilot #AI