OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast mode
What happened
On 2 October 2026, NVIDIA said in an official blog post that OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast mode is already running on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs and is available to the OpenAI API as well as eligible ChatGPT Work and Codex users. This report is the only source so far; it does not mention the mode's specific release date, performance figures or its relationship to earlier versions, and no numbers or claims contradicting previous reports have appeared.
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Developments
- Oct 14 20:00 · 1 reportsAmp expands AI agent apps with OpenAI modelsOpenAI News：Amp puts AI agents to work beyond code with OpenAI models
- Oct 2 07:44 · 1 reportsOpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast modeNVIDIA Blog：How NVIDIA GPUs Help Accelerate OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast
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- OpenAI NewsAmp puts AI agents to work beyond code with OpenAI models
See how Amp pushes the frontier of what agents can do with GPT-6 Astra, Ultrafast, GPT-Live-1, and Sign in with ChatGPT.
- NVIDIA BlogSelectedHow NVIDIA GPUs Help Accelerate OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast
GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast, running on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, is available now in the OpenAI API and to eligible ChatGPT Work and Codex users. Accelerated by inference optimizations through OpenAI’s models that tap into the capabilities of the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture, Ultrafast offers up to 8x faster token generation than the Astra Standard mode.
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