India, Sept. 23 -- Imagine handing an AI agent a task you would normally give to a junior employee: open the company's software, find the right customer record, fill in a form, check a few details and send the result back. You simply assign AI the job and let it work.

OpenAI claims to have achieved just that, with the launch of GPT-6 Astra earlier this month. Unlike a chatbot that simply responds to prompts, Astra can take on a task and work through a computer like a human would.

OpenAI calls Astra its most intelligent and aligned model yet. But what drew more attention was OpenAI president Greg Brockman's proclamation of the arrival of "the AGI era" at a press briefing following the launch.

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