The AI Daily Brief · Tuesday, September 8, 2026
OpenAI's benchmarks for GPT-6 Astra emphasize its superior computer use capabilities, scoring 41.1% on the automation bench, significantly higher than competitors. The company also highlighted Astra's cost efficiency in achieving these results, noting it performed benchmarks more cheaply than Fable 5.1.
“On automation bench, which measures computer use, the scores were off the charts. Astra scored 41.1%, which was much higher than Fable 5.1 at 31.4% and GPT-5.6 sole at 18.1%.”
“And honestly, if you had to pick just one thing that OpenAI really wanted you to know about Astra, it is how transformatively different at using computers it is.”
“And importantly, OpenAI chose to highlight that not only did Astra score higher, but it did it a lot more cheaply than for example Fable 5.1.”