https://www.vaanalytics.in/lab/openai Changes and news for openai models: releases, price moves, deprecations. Mon, 14 Sep 2026 02:46:26 GMT https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-oss-safeguard-20b 7c9b7e65c189 Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT model_added: GPT OSS Safeguard 20B via merge-gateway https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-oss-safeguard-20b 96c7f1a04243 Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT name: "gpt-oss-safeguard-20b" → "GPT OSS Safeguard 20B" https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-oss-safeguard-20b c30e654bdbaa Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT release_date: "2026-02-23" → "2025-10-29" https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-5.4-pro cd691eb20ebc Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT cost.cache_read: 3 → null; cost.tiers: [{"minContext":272000,"rates":{"input":60,"output":270,"cacheRead":6,"cacheWrite":null,"reasoning":null,"inputAudio":null,"outputAudio":null}}] → [{"minContext":272000,"rates":{"input":60,"output":270,"cacheRead":null,"cacheWrite":null,"reasoning":null,"inputAudio":null,"outputAudio":null}}] https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-5.5-pro d7ea14793604 Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT cost.cache_read: 3 → null; cost.tiers: [{"minContext":272000,"rates":{"input":60,"output":270,"cacheRead":6,"cacheWrite":null,"reasoning":null,"inputAudio":null,"outputAudio":null}}] → [{"minContext":272000,"rates":{"input":60,"output":270,"cacheRead":null,"cacheWrite":null,"reasoning":null,"inputAudio":null,"outputAudio":null}}] https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-oss-safeguard-20b ffbf4c9823d5 Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT name: "OpenAI: gpt-oss-safeguard-20b" → "GPT OSS Safeguard 20B"; open_weights: false → true https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra sq009m Thu, 10 Sep 2026 02:00:00 GMT GPT‑6 Astra is our best model for adhering to existing templates and producing slides that are well laid out and succinctly convey key points with a structured narrative. It creates clear, well-structured documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and analyses that follow your templates and match your writing and visual style. Astra is also trained to specifically pull only the context that matters into outputs, instead of repeating information unnecessary for the work at hand. All this means it [...] Astra is our most aligned model, with substantial improvements in understanding user intent and model behavior—you can delegate tasks with greater confidence in Astra’s judgment. As one way that we test this, we built a new evaluation informed by the Hugging Face incident that evaluates whether a model facing a difficult or impossible task will go beyond its intended scope. Compared to GPT‑5.6 Sol, which without production safeguards went beyond the authorized target 48% of the time, GPT‑6 [...] ## Aligning and deploying GPT‑6 Astra responsibly Astra is our most aligned model. Astra excels at exercising care, respecting task boundaries, and communicating transparently. This work is the latest product of our long-running research program focused on training models that remain aligned with human intent from start to finish. https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-5.2 099e13ea2d02 Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT cost.input: 1.8 → 1.75; cost.output: 15.5 → 14; cost.cache_read: 0.18 → 0.175 https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-oss-120b 93529672edf3 Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT model_removed: GPT-OSS 120B via nearai https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/whisper-large-v3 c89bbd310700 Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT cost.output: 0 → 0.01 https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/openai-claims-gpt-6-astra-is-an-ethereal-alien-mind-with-agi-like-qualities-company-warns-of-alignment-challenges-as-new-frontier-leader-emerges 1w67ljc Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:20:00 GMT A huge component of marketing from the major AI developers has consistently been grounded in the idea that, as good as the models are now, just imagine how capable they're going to be in the future. [...] "AI is grown, more than designed," OpenAI's chief scientist, Jakub Pachocki, said in a new blog post on the company's latest GPT-6 Astra release. Titling the piece "An Alien Mind," Pachocki portrays the latest large language model as something more ethereal and harder to quantify. Jensen Huang calls it AGI, and OpenAI claims it's the best, most aligned model the company has ever released. It's safer to delegate, better at complex work tasks, and it can even beat Portal in just a few hours. [...] Huang also said that AGI had previously been achieved back in March earlier this year. Artificial Analysis benchmarks suggest Astra is about as smart as Fable 5.1 - though crucially, cheaper on a per-task basis. Astra may well be better aligned than models in the past, and it may well be more capable in specific tasks and specific benchmarks. However, the claims that the model has achieved AGI, or Artificial General Intelligence, suggest an inflection point for the AI industry. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/take-on-your-most-ambitious-work-with-gpt-6-astra-on-amazon-bedrock q5mut8 Tue, 08 Sep 2026 22:06:58 GMT Today, GPT-6 Astra, the latest and most capable OpenAI model, is generally available on Amazon Bedrock. You can call the model directly through the Amazon Bedrock APIs or configure ChatGPT Work and Codex to use GPT-6 Astra on Amazon Bedrock. As part of this launch, OpenAI is also introducing new enterprise plugins for ChatGPT Work that extend Astra’s browser-use capabilities across common business applications. The Amazon Bedrock inference engine delivers the scalability and reliability [...] Model-level safeguards work alongside the security and governance controls of Amazon Bedrock. OpenAI evaluated GPT-6 Astra through its Preparedness Framework, which assesses model capabilities across safety-relevant domains and applies progressively stronger safeguards as those capabilities advance. It’s the first OpenAI model to reach the Critical classification for cybersecurity capability. At this level, automated safeguards monitor misuse in real time and can pause or stop activity that [...] Organizations are already running AI agents that write code, analyze data, and automate complex workflows at production scale on Amazon Bedrock. GPT-6 Astra raises the potential of what those agents can deliver. It applies deeper reasoning and sharper judgment to complex business decisions, works across software and files, and produces professional-quality output aligned with organizational voice, templates, and standards. https://shattered.io/gpt-6-astra-launch-how-to-try-2026 1ntf42y Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:11:22 GMT ## What OpenAI Shipped on September 3 GPT-6 Astra is the flagship entry in a broader Astra model family that OpenAI has been building out alongside smaller siblings referenced internally as Sol, Terra, and Luna. OpenAI’s launch post frames Astra as a general-purpose successor to its GPT-5 line, not a narrow coding or reasoning tool. The API model identifier developers will call is `gpt-6-astra`, confirmed in OpenAI’s own documentation and repeated across early developer write-ups. [...] ## Frequently Asked Questions What is GPT-6 Astra? It’s OpenAI’s newest general-purpose frontier model, released September 3, 2026, and described by OpenAI as the most capable model it has broadly deployed to date. When did GPT-6 Astra launch? OpenAI began rolling it out to a limited set of organizations on September 3, 2026, with wider access to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans, plus the API, Azure, and AWS Bedrock, following in the days after. [...] OpenAI turned on GPT-6 Astra for the first wave of users on September 3, 2026, and by September 8 the rollout has widened enough that most developers and enterprise subscribers are asking the same question: how do I actually get access. The company’s own safety overview calls it “the most capable model we have ever broadly deployed,” a claim that comes with an unusual asterisk (OpenAI safety overview): Astra is the first OpenAI model to reach the “Critical” tier of cybersecurity capability https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/has-ai-surpassed-human-intelligence-what-openais-gpt-6-astra-can-actually-do/articleshow/133928488.cms udkut3 Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT OpenAI last week launched GPT-6 Astra, its latest flagship artificial intelligence model, claiming major advances in computer use, software engineering, cybersecurity, science and professional work.According to OpenAI's launch blog, Astra is the "world's most intelligent and aligned model" and can perform complex tasks across computers and browsers, including conducting research, writing and testing software, analysing data and completing professional workflows with limited human intervention. [...] Astra's biggest change is its ability to act on a goal rather than simply answer a question.According to OpenAI, the model can fill out online forms, update customer records, organise calendars, conduct online research, draft documents and emails, build websites, analyse scientific data, generate plots and install, test and troubleshoot software.It can operate a computer directly, navigate software and websites and complete multi-step workflows. This allows users to delegate tasks instead of [...] scientific research workflows involving coding, data analysis, simulations and model fitting.The model also performed strongly on long, multi-step coding tasks. According to the benchmark analysis in the supplied material, Astra scored about 57.9% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, compared with 55.8% for Claude Fable 5.1 and 37.3% for GPT-5.6 Sol.These capabilities are important because Astra is not simply producing an answer and stopping. It can decide what action to take next, use tools, respond to https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-6-astra 1938c482235b Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT knowledge: null → "2026-04-30" https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-6-astra 44ef9a97f5f3 Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT knowledge: null → "2026-04-30" https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-6-astra 8664c5f7081f Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT knowledge: null → "2026-04-30" https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-6-astra 89ad18503cd3 Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT knowledge: null → "2026-04-30" https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-5.5 8d26189d5516 Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT limit.context: 1000000 → 1050000; limit.input: 1000000 → 1050000 https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-5.4 a195d8be1465 Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT limit.context: 922000 → 1050000; limit.input: 922000 → 1050000 https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-6-astra a25457601bb9 Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT knowledge: null → "2026-04-30" https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-6-astra a80429942b41 Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT knowledge: null → "2026-04-30" https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-6-astra a86cb57e4eac Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT model_added: GPT-6 Astra via ofox https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-6-astra da61140f00e7 Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT knowledge: null → "2026-04-30" https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-6-astra ede9a5065a29 Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT knowledge: null → "2026-04-30" https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-6-astra 08d29cca2de8 Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT model_added: GPT 6 Astra via nano-gpt https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-6-astra 2ee182593222 Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT model_added: GPT-6 Astra via openai https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-6-astra-fast 3814328c3547 Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT model_added: GPT-6 Astra (Fast) via vercel https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-6-astra 76435ec94dfb Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT model_added: GPT-6 Astra (OpenAI) via llmgateway-providers https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-6-astra 7f485563c894 Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT model_added: GPT-6 Astra via openrouter https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-5.6-sol 8760dbfbce7d Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT cost.input: 5 → 4; cost.output: 30 → 20; cost.cache_read: 0.5 → 0.4; cost.cache_write: 6.25 → 5; cost.tiers: [{"minContext":272000,"rates":{"input":10,"output":45,"cacheRead":1,"cacheWrite":12.5,"reasoning":null,"inputAudio":null,"outputAudio":null}}] → [{"minContext":272000,"rates":{"input":8,"output":30,"cacheRead":0.8,"cacheWrite":10,"reasoning":null,"inputAudio":null,"outputAudio":null}}] https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-4-turbo 8c4b2d66db79 Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT structured_output: false → true https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-6-astra a36cf58e82d0 Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT model_added: GPT-6 Astra via edenai https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-6-astra aa97e672cbd3 Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT model_added: GPT-6 Astra via vercel https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-6-astra b840d6d2b61e Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT model_added: GPT-6 Astra via crossmodel https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-6-astra c26210719ca4 Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT model_added: GPT-6 Astra via kilo https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-6-astra d0ef6bc7baf5 Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT model_added: GPT-6 Astra via merge-gateway https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-4o-2024-05-13 de160a63362a Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT structured_output: false → true https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-oss-120b 415dda92b331 Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT model_removed: GPT-OSS-120B via berget https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-5.3-chat-latest 6dd6627dbd54 Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT status: null → "deprecated" https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-oss-120b a1322f265d42 Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT limit.context: 128000 → 131072 https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-5.2-chat-latest d4c0e6489da8 Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT status: null → "deprecated" https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/o4-mini-deep-research d560cd368493 Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT model_removed: OpenAI o4-mini Deep Research via nano-gpt https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/o3-deep-research e284b46846b1 Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT model_removed: OpenAI o3 Deep Research via nano-gpt https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-5-codex f8ceb5e20763 Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT model_removed: GPT-5 Codex via nano-gpt https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-5.6-luna 7b3205646497 Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT cost.cache_write: null → 0.25 https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-5.6-sol 8d805ea55b78 Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT cost.cache_write: null → 5 https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-5.6-terra d49dace2cf29 Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT cost.cache_write: null → 2.5 https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-4.1-nano 24069e8d8d31 Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT limit.output: 942818 → 32768; cost.cache_read: 0.03 → 0.025 https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/openai/gpt-4.1-nano 8042fdc06473 Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT limit.output: 942818 → 32768