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GPT-6 Astra is OpenAI's most intelligent and aligned model, with state-of-the-art capabilities across computer use, coding, cybersecurity, and science. It is the first OpenAI model to reach the Critical level of cybersecurity capability under the Preparedness Framework.
OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.5, introducing two API models: Sunburst for precision editing and Flare for faster generation. Flare delivers images over 50% faster, and both support transparent backgrounds. Available now to all ChatGPT, Work, and Codex users.
OpenAI says its internal model solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem in 88 hours using ~10,000 coordinating AI agents, with a Lean-verified proof. NYU's Tristan Buckmaster disputes the claim, alleging OpenAI raced to claim credit after learning of his unpublished work with Anthropic's Levent Alpöge.
Gemini 3.8 Flash, Google's third Flash release in six weeks, is priced at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens. The new 3.8 Flash Cyber variant targets cybersecurity, available to trusted defenders via the Fairwind Program.
Claude Fable 5.1 scores 55.8% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 in Claude Code, ahead of Fable 5 (42%) and Opus 5 (52.3%). Priced same as Fable 5 with cache reads cut to $0.25/MTok from $1/MTok.
DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp on August 21, its first model accepting image input, matching V4-Flash on text capabilities. It approaches Claude Opus 4.8 on multimodal agent benchmarks at a fraction of the cost. Available on the DeepSeek API Platform and Hugging Face.
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