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title: "By declaring that GPT-6 Astra has ushered in the AGI era, OpenAI is being flippant and cementing the term's status as nothing more than marketing (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/by-declaring-that-gpt-6-astra-has-ushered-in-the-agi-era-openai-is-a19cefc7
published: 2026-09-04T15:05:01.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# By declaring that GPT-6 Astra has ushered in the AGI era, OpenAI is being flippant and cementing the term's status as nothing more than marketing (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-09-04 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/by-declaring-that-gpt-6-astra-has-ushered-in-the-agi-era-openai-is-a19cefc7

M.G. Siegler / Spyglass : By declaring that GPT-6 Astra has ushered in the AGI era, OpenAI is being flippant and cementing the term's status as nothing more than marketing — With ‘GPT-6 Astra’, AGI is here\! Congrats, everyone\! — It's a question as old as time. Or at least as old as Terminator 2. Is AGI here?

In this story: [AGI](https://frontiernewswire.com/topics/agi), [M.G. Siegler](https://frontiernewswire.com/people/m-g-siegler)

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/260904/p18#a260904p18)

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