OpenAI Says Astra Is Trained — and It Will Ration the Cyber Capabilities

Sam Altman confirmed Astra finished training, framing it as a leap in both capability and alignment, while OpenAI signaled it will restrict who can access the model's most advanced cybersecurity features.

OpenAI's next frontier model has a name and a status: done training. Sam Altman confirmed on Tuesday that Astra "has been done training for a while now and is a significant step forward in both capabilities and alignment," adding that OpenAI is "also going to be launching our next model soon" — a phrasing that suggests Astra and the imminent public release may not be the same thing.

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