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Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards

SOURCEOpenAI
PUBLISHEDSeptember 1, 2026
LAYERTools
SIGNAL SCORE28/100

SOURCE SUMMARY

Astra is the first OpenAI model to meet the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under the Preparedness Framework, with stronger safeguards for release.

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TOPICSOpenAI
MODELSNo named model detected