Anthropic · OpenAI · Sam Altman · Greg Brockman · San Francisco · The Guardian Technology
OpenAI hails ‘new era of artificial general intelligence’ with Astra model release
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The president of OpenAI, Greg Brockman, has claimed the world has entered a new era of artificial general intelligence after the release of his company’s latest model, Astra, which it described as the “world’s most intelligent and aligned model”.
Key facts
- On one hacking test it achieved a perfect score of 100%, compared with 5.5% on Open AI’s previous cutting-edge cyber-capable model, GPT-5.6 Sol
- The race to release ever-more advanced AIs comes as OpenAI pushes towards a stock market listing that it hopes will value it at more than $850bn (£625bn)
- OpenAI said Astra was a “major advance for scientific discovery, mathematics and health”, could fill out tax returns, build computer-game scenes, draw architectural visualisations, order food
- Days earlier Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, was asked how he was feeling about AGI
Summary
Brockman made the claim on Thursday as the San Francisco company released the model only weeks after a serious AI safety incident involving other models under its development caused international concern and a pause in Astra’s training. Artificial general intelligence, or AGI, is a fuzzy threshold that has long been talked about as a target for the AI industry. Brockman said: “If they fast forward a couple years, and they look back and say when was it that AGI was created, the reporter thinks it’s going to be about this time, and the reporter thinks it might be about this model.