GPT-6 Astra rolls out to all Factory users

Factory, a platform that runs coding agents against a company's codebase, made GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI's newest model, available to all of its customers, per Factory's post. This came shortly after OpenAI made the model broadly available to its own Pro, Enterprise and Business Premium customers (OpenAI's GA announcement), so Factory's update is about giving its own customers access to that already-released model rather than a new model launch.

For a sense of what the model actually does once given repository access, an early-access account from developer steipete reported that Astra chased failing tests out of the local codebase and into dependencies, producing patches against underlying packages like vitest, tsx and SwiftPM rather than stopping at the user's own code (early account). That is one practitioner's early observation, not a controlled evaluation, but it describes the kind of behavior Factory's customers can now try for themselves.