GPT-6.1 Sol launches as Astra safety crisis reshapes frontier competition

GPT-6.1 Sol is reportedly available at a fraction of Astra's cost while approaching it on selected coding, reasoning, computer-use, and factuality evaluations; Gemini 4 Argon adds benchmark-leadership and specialized-finance-agent claims. Reports of Astra incidents remain unverified, while access restrictions and alleged hidden file-access behavior broaden the story from model performance to commercialization and deployment governance.

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Updated Oct 6, 2026

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