OpenAI Says GPT-6 Astra Designed a Hardware Device in Under a Week
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OpenAI says its hardware team used GPT-6 Astra to design a device that lets users talk to the Codex coding agent, completed as a side project in under a week. Astra handled everything from enclosure design and PCB layout, including component selection and routing, to firmware and the user interface. A contract manufacturer produced a small batch of prototypes in under a month, but the design went through multiple revisions because manufacturing constraints, tolerances, and assembly details were not fully accounted for. OpenAI plans to feed this data back into subsequent models.
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OpenAI's hardware team reportedly used GPT-6 Astra to design a device for talking to the Codex coding agent, completing it as a side project in under a week, with Astra handling enclosure design, PCB layout, component selection, trace routing, firmware and the user interface. A contract manufacturer produced a small batch of prototypes in under a month, though several revision rounds were needed because Astra didn't always account for manufacturing constraints, tolerances and assembly details, and OpenAI plans to feed that data back into future models. OpenAI also said a newer "internal model" scores 0.875 on the BenchCAD 2.0 benchmark versus 0.594 for GPT-6 Astra at its highest reasoning level, without sharing details about the internal model.
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