😬 Altman apologizes as GPT-6 Astra stumbles
OpenAI billed GPT-6 Astra as a generational leap, then locked out paying users hours after launch.
Benchmarks can't even agree on the leap: Epoch AI has it crushing the field, Artificial Analysis says it barely beats the last model.
A messy rollout on a flagship release is not a rounding error, it is a trust tax.
Watch whether users forgive the chaos or start shopping Claude and Gemini instead.
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