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Astra Is an Agent Runtime, Not a Model

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Astra Is an Agent Runtime, Not a Model Everyone is talking about GPT-6 Astra's benchmarks. FrontierMath 98%. ARC-AGI-3 99.9%. ExploitBench 100%. The numbers are real and they're impressive. But if you're building agents, the benchmarks are the least interesting thing OpenAI shipped this week. The i…

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