GPT-6 Astra's Symbolic World Model: Breakthrough or $360-per-Question Brute Force?
GPT-6 Astra achieves near-perfect scores on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark using a symbolic world model that internalizes reasoning and tool creation, but the $360-per-task compute cost and reliance on external harnesses raise questions about whether this represents genuine AGI progress or expensive brute-force engineering.
