--- title: "GPT-6 Astra — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/gpt6 as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # GPT-6 Astra (🧠 Models) [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Topics](https://abovethefog.app/topics.md) › GPT-6 Astra GPT-6 Astra is 💤 Quiet on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 1 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, 60 points lower than 7 days before. Its attention is within the normal range across the monitored sources. Its last hype episode in the 30-day window ran from Sep 2 to Sep 26 (peak 100 on Sep 3). GPT-6 'Astra,' OpenAI's frontier model launched Sep 3, 2026 (includes variants like Astra for Law). First seen on Reddit · Sep 13 — the first monitored source to go above normal for it in the last 14 days. Why this stage: within the normal range across monitored sources. - **Stage:** 💤 Quiet — within the normal range across the monitored sources - **Hype score:** 0.9 / 100 · −40.8 in 1 day · −60.2 in 7 days - **In hype since:** not in hype now - **Peak, 30 days:** 100 on Sep 3, 2026 - **Category:** 🧠 Models - **Made by:** [OpenAI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openai.md) - **Official site:** [openai.com](https://openai.com) - **Sources above normal:** 0 of 24 scoring it (0 independent families) - **Stories in 7 days:** 1,570 - **Share of voice:** 2.8% of the radar’s attention in 7 days ## Where the attention comes from “Normal” is the median of the source’s previous 14 normal days for this topic. A source is above normal when its value is at least 30% over that level and stands out from its usual day-to-day variation (z ≥ 2); the share is the part of the hype score that source explains. “× normal” is left blank when the normal level is 0. | Source | Metric | Latest | Normal | × normal | Above normal | Share of score | |---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:| | Hacker News | mentions | 3 | 1 | 2× | no | 100% | | Luma (SF AI events) | events | 1 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Podcasts (Apple + niche RSS) | items | 1 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Bluesky | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Cerebral Valley (AI events) | events | 1 (Sep 26) | 1 | 1× | no | 0% | | GitHub Trending | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Google Trends (Trending now) | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Hugging Face Daily Papers | items | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% | ## Stories behind it 1. [GPT 6 Sol released today?](https://manifold.markets/brod/gpt-56-sol-released-today) — Manifold Markets (@brod) · Sep 22 · score 10,865 2. [gpt-6-luna-max enters the text Arena leaderboard at #158](https://arena.ai/leaderboard/text) — LMArena (leaderboard) (openai) · Sep 25 · score 4,792 3. [GPT-6 Sol and Luna](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49805509) — Hacker News (openai.com) · Sep 22 · score 1,776 · 855 comments 4. [GPT-6 Sol and Luna](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49805509) — HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) (openai.com) · Sep 22 · score 1,766 · 846 comments 5. [I used Astra to build a Yu-Gi-Oh! AR app for SPECS](https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1wpg5k8/) — Reddit (r/OpenAI) · Sep 24 · score 2,577 · 127 comments 6. [gpt 6 sol](https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=gpt+6+sol&geo=US&date=now%207-d) — Google Trends (Trending now) (Google Trends US) · Sep 22 · score 500 7. [miuuyy/Astra-Ares: Adaptive reasoning effort for GPT-6 during Codex tasks, powered by Jev to reduce token usage.](https://github.com/miuuyy/Astra-Ares) — GitHub (miuuyy) · Sep 22 · score 282 8. [On Ezra Klein’s Podcast With Jensen Huang](https://thezvi.substack.com/p/on-ezra-kleins-podcast-with-jensen) — AI newsletters (RSS) (Zvi) · Sep 25 · score 135 · 50 comments 9. [OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, saying Sol makes about half as many mistakes as GPT-5.6 Sol and Luna matches GPT-5.6 Sol's performance at \~1% of the cost](https://www.techmeme.com/260922/p43#a260922p43) — Techmeme (ZDNET) · Sep 22 · score 19 · 34 comments 10. [GPT-6 Astra: What’s Your Opinion?](https://dev.to/technogamerz/gpt-6-astra-whats-your-opinion-253h) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Sep 22 · score 48 · 16 comments 11. [Announcing GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna in the API, Codex and ChatGPT](https://community.openai.com/t/announcing-gpt-6-sol-and-gpt-6-luna-in-the-api-codex-and-chatgpt/1399925) — Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) (OpenAI Developer Community) · Sep 22 · score 35 · 5 comments 12. [GPT-6 Astra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-6_Astra) — Wikipedia (new-article) · Sep 23 ## Themes What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 1,180 of them the Jev model kept as about the scene, by theme (a story can carry several themes): - [Models](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models.md) — 80% of its stories - [Agents](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents.md) — 35% of its stories - [Usage & adoption](https://abovethefog.app/themes/usage_adoption.md) — 30% of its stories - [Companies & business](https://abovethefog.app/themes/companies_business.md) — 10% of its stories - [Security & safety](https://abovethefog.app/themes/security_safety.md) — 3.9% of its stories - [Protocols & infra](https://abovethefog.app/themes/protocols_infra.md) — 3.5% of its stories ## Related topics - **Related to:** [AI in math](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_math.md), [ChatGPT](https://abovethefog.app/topics/chatgpt.md), [GPT-5.6 Sol - Terra - Luna](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gpt56.md), [OpenAI Codex](https://abovethefog.app/topics/codex.md) - **Competes with:** [Claude Fable - Mythos 5.1](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude_fable_mythos.md), [Gemini](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gemini.md), [Grok](https://abovethefog.app/topics/grok.md), [Muse Spark](https://abovethefog.app/topics/muse_spark.md) - **Made by:** [OpenAI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openai.md) - **Mentioned with:** [Claude](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude.md) (740 stories), [AGI - superintelligence](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agi.md) (89 stories), [LMArena](https://abovethefog.app/topics/lmarena.md) (31 stories), [AGENTS.md](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agents_md.md) (24 stories), [Hunyuan](https://abovethefog.app/topics/hunyuan.md) (5 stories), [Sakana AI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/sakana.md) (4 stories) ## Hype score, last 30 days | Day | Hype score | Stage | |---|---:|---| | Sep 27, 2026 | 0.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 26, 2026 | 41.7 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 25, 2026 | 53.5 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 24, 2026 | 60.9 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 23, 2026 | 89.3 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 22, 2026 | 93.2 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 21, 2026 | 65.2 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 20, 2026 | 61.1 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 19, 2026 | 59.3 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 18, 2026 | 67.5 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 17, 2026 | 78.1 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 16, 2026 | 69.9 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 15, 2026 | 64.5 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 14, 2026 | 71 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 13, 2026 | 59.7 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 12, 2026 | 65.7 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 11, 2026 | 84.7 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 10, 2026 | 91.8 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 9, 2026 | 96.1 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 8, 2026 | 91.8 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 7, 2026 | 100 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 6, 2026 | 86.9 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 5, 2026 | 100 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 4, 2026 | 100 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 3, 2026 | 100 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 2, 2026 | 50.5 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 1, 2026 | 18.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 31, 2026 | 0.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 30, 2026 | 10.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 29, 2026 | 0.6 | 💤 Quiet | [Open GPT-6 Astra in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#topic=gpt6) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gpt6) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)