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GPT-6 Astra: what a billion-dollar model actually buys you
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra costs $1B to train and $10 per million tokens. Here's what it can do, what it costs, and what worries the people who built it.
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GPT-6 Astra: what a billion-dollar model actually buys you
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra costs $1B to train and $10 per million tokens. Here's what it can do, what it costs, and what worries the people who built it.
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