OpenAI’s next big AI model has ‘entered the AGI era’
THE SO WHAT
Astra being tagged as meeting OpenAI’s internal ‘critical AGI’ bar — with big gains in cybersecurity, pro work, and science — raises the bar for what “enterprise-ready” AI means. Expect board-level questions on how your org will exploit or defend against these capabilities, not just pilot them.
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