OpenAI quietly updates its evaluation metrics for GPT-6 Astra, making changes that appear to favor Astra and continuing to revise other metrics after launch
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Model evals are now a moving target, even post-launch—which means you cannot outsource risk or performance assumptions to vendor benchmarks. Treat vendor scores as marketing inputs and build your own task-level evals for the workflows that matter to you.
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