🚨 Astra is already in the hands of select OpenAI partners.
They’re running it under the name ultima-alpha.
If this weekend’s tests hold, early access expands next week. Wider rollout is aimed at Thursday, Sept 3 through the week after.
People using it say the leap in long-running agents and one-shot coding is the biggest since GPT-4.
GPT-Image 2 is on the same clock. They may drop together.
The wait is almost over.