The benchmark's own inventor scored the same model 37 points lower.
“OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra billing it as its most capable and aligned model yet, with president Greg Brockman saying 'it's not unreasonable to feel that we are now in the AGI era,' citing a 99.9% score on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark.”
OpenAI (Greg Brockman, President), 3 September 2026
Recorded 5 September 2026. Our ruling means: literally true, materially misleading.
On the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, which aggregates reasoning, knowledge, and coding evaluations into one score, Astra landed at 61.2. That ties GPT-5.6 Sol at 60.9 and trails Claude Fable 5.1 at 65.7.
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