GPT-6 Astra launches autonomous computer-use model

Astra’s biggest shift is from answering prompts to executing multi-step work across real software, but its cyber power and declining monitorability make deployment discipline essential.

• –Computer-use agents can operate browsers, spreadsheets, CRMs, engineering tools, and development environments.
• –OpenAI reports major gains over GPT-5.6 Sol on OSWorld, coding, professional-work, and cybersecurity evaluations.
• –The model reaches OpenAI’s Critical cybersecurity threshold, including the ability to discover zero-day vulnerabilities.
• –Stronger safeguards, scoped permissions, approvals, and trajectory monitoring are now core infrastructure for agent deployments.
• –Astra’s reduced monitorability shows capability gains are outpacing the reliability of existing oversight methods.