Unverified leak points to an OpenAI Astra launch next week

The account behind the claim calls Astra OpenAI's largest pretrain since GPT-4.5 and names "mewfour" as its release candidate.

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Astra would mark a return to large-scale pretraining as OpenAI's product lineup shifts toward named capability tiers. The claim remains uncorroborated and carries no performance or pricing data.

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An unverified leak posted Thursday claims OpenAI is preparing to release a model called Astra during the week of August 10th, potentially putting another major model into the market roughly a month after OpenAI launched GPT-5.6.

leo (@synthwavedd) made the claim in a two-post thread on X at 7:00 a.m. on August 6th. The account described Astra as a newly pretrained model and the largest OpenAI has trained since GPT-4.5. It also identified an internal checkpoint called "mewfour" as the release candidate.

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