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GPT-6 Astra Users Say OpenAI's Newest Model Got Dumber
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A week ago, GPT-6 Astra was rebuilding Manhattan street by street inside a game engine, wowing users left and right with its capabilities.
Key facts
- Dumber or not, it still costs $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens, 2.5 times what Sol charged at launch
- ChatGPT user Mustafa Sahinli put it more bluntly: Astra now makes him feel like Claude Opus 4.6 "after 1 week of release," a jab at Anthropic's own post-launch backlash
- A week ago, GPT-6 Astra was rebuilding Manhattan street by street inside a game engine, wowing users left and right with its capabilities
- And social media at the moment is replete with examples of users quickly souring on GPT-6 Astra
Summary
Previously, users found the writing quality issue existed at launch. OpenAI's last model, Sol, saw the same backlash in July. "Astra feels significantly dumber for me today," the popular pseudonymous developer synthwavedd posted on X. It's a familiar refrain, with AI users accustomed to their favorite chatbots and agents suddenly feeling like they've been "nerfed. And social media at the moment is replete with examples of users quickly souring on GPT-6 Astra.