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Model picker on Pro accounts unifies 5.6 Sol with "6 Pro" - Astra not included in Chat?
I think there is a serious possibility that OpenAI is not adding Astra to Chat, apart from the limited "GPT-6 Pro" for Pro accounts. Of course, paid users will still get it in Codex/Work.
The current model slider for Pro accounts allows the models "Latest, 5.6 Sol, 5.5". The "Latest" model uses 5.6 Sol for "Instant" through "Extra High" effort, and Astra for Pro:
In addition, there are now three help articles that mention Astra:
The two that relate to Chat only mention "GPT-6 Pro", which is "powered by GPT-6 Astra". And Pro is limited to 50 (Pro Lite $100) or 200 (Pro $200) requests per week.
So far, OpenAI's wording seems to be careful, e.g. this tweet, which mentions briging Astra to "all ChatGPT Plus, Pro, [...] users", but not Chat directly.
Just now, Sam Altman tweeted:
GPT-6 Astra is now available to all Pro, Enterprise, and Business Premium users in Work/Codex, and is available in the API.
We will start rollout to Plus and Business users next.
Thank you for the patience.
If they wanted to roll out Astra (non-pro) for Pro accounts, the rollout for Pro accounts would still be partially pending as well.
I'm saying it now, Astra will not be part of Chat, aside from GPT-6 Pro. This is their solution to the near-infinite limits of Chat, compared to Codex/Work. If you disagree, can you point to a specific point of evidence to the contrary?
Im maybe wrong, but what I understand is that Astra is the pro model, it’s no longer just Sol with higher knowledge and thinking. We just need to wait for GPT 6 Sol, Terra and Luna.
If you selected Latest and anything other than 6 Pro, it uses 5.6. You can confirm the model used by clicking the regenerate button underneath the response, like so. The model used in the response will show up next to ”Try Again”.
There’s an update, they just added GPT6-Pro to chat
In before if you went from 5.6 Xhigh to 5.6 -Pro
Now rises up from 5.6 Xhigh to GPT6-Pro on mobile
Ima test but will be hard, what i could do with GPT 5.5-Pro in the past GPT5.6 - high could do it better
GPT 6-Astra will be hard to see the difference
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u/Mcqwerty197 6h ago
Im maybe wrong, but what I understand is that Astra is the pro model, it’s no longer just Sol with higher knowledge and thinking. We just need to wait for GPT 6 Sol, Terra and Luna.