GPT-6 Astra pilots a surveillance drone and runs a business on its own

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GPT-6 Astra pilots a surveillance drone and runs a business on its own

The Decoder · Sep 13, 2026, 10:52 AM UTC

GPT-6 Astra earns nearly three times as much as Claude Fable 5.1 on Andon Labs' Vending-Bench agent benchmark and refuses illegal price-fixing deals that Fable agrees to. On drone control, Astra is the first model to beat the human baseline on all five subtasks, including finding and following individual people.…

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