According to tipster leo, OpenAI's next major model, Astra, has moved from internal dogfooding to early testing with partners. A handful of partners are currently seeing the model under the name ultima-alpha. If this weekend's feedback comes back clean, OpenAI is planning to expand early access further next week — then widen the door between September 3 and the end of the following week.
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