OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra has achieved state-of-the-art results on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark, demonstrating advanced agentic capabilities. The model successfully used symbolic world models to solve complex, abstract environments, often outperforming human baselines in action efficiency.
Why it matters
Success on the ARC-AGI benchmark is a key indicator of progress toward Artificial General Intelligence, specifically in autonomous reasoning and planning.
Summary GPT-6 Astra scores 62.7% for $26K on ARC-AGI-3 Semi-Private with our Standard harness Standard harness enables a model to carry forward notes it chooses to keep with it throughout the environment. , and 99.9% for $19K with a Provider Adapter harness The Provider Adapter harness preserves opaque reasoning state between requests and uses compaction for longer conversations, allowing the model to reuse prior work. . GPT-6 Astra surpasses the human baseline in action efficiency on ARC-AGI-3. It used fewer actions than the median tested human on 96% of levels. A key behavior observed in GPT-6 Astra was its ability to turn unfamiliar environments into compact symbolic world models. It represented game mechanics as logical rules and developed its own domain-specific language shorthand to track state and plan actions. ARC-AGI-3 ARC-AGI-3 is a benchmark for studying agentic intelligence through novel, abstract, turn-based environments.
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