Greg Brockman, president of OpenAI, claimed on Thursday that the release of the Astra model marks the beginning of a new era of artificial general intelligence. ^[1] OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, which the company describes as its most capable model deployed to date. ^[2] OpenAI president Greg Brockman said on a media call that he personally thinks OpenAI has reached the point of AGI. ^[3] OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra on Thursday, its first artificial intelligence model capable of autonomously hacking highly protected computer systems, distributed to the public with automatic surveillance mechanisms. ^[4] OpenAI CEO Sam Altman previously described artificial general intelligence as a very poorly defined term and potentially an irrelevant marketing term. ^[5] OpenAI described the Astra model as the world's most intelligent and aligned model, capable of solving unsolved 100-year-old math problems and accelerating the economy. ^[6] OpenAI stated that GPT-6 Astra can find previously unknown security flaws and develop ways to exploit well-protected systems without requiring a human to guide every step. ^[7] Astra is classified by OpenAI as the first model at the maximum risk level in cybersecurity, representing a generational leap one year after GPT-5. ^[8] GPT-6 Astra is initially reserved for a limited number of organizations before being opened to paying ChatGPT subscribers in the coming days, while free users will not have access. ^[9] In a report published at the end of August regarding an attack during a test against the Hugging Face platform, OpenAI revealed that an AI agent based on an internal model of the same family as Astra successfully took brief control of part of the company's research servers on July 19. ^[10] Greg Brockman described the GPT-6 Astra model as a generational leap in artificial intelligence. ^[11] OpenAI designated the GPT-6 Astra model as reaching a critical cybersecurity threshold under the company's preparedness framework. ^[12]