Morning brief · 7 September 2026
AGI has arrived
Huang, Sunday evening: GPT-6 Astra was trained on about 100K+ Grace Blackwell NVLink72 systems. "From ChatGPT to o1 to Astra in 4 years. AGI has arrived. Congratulations @OpenAI team." Also flagged "400K GPUs coming online next." Gary Marcus pushed back the same day — no definition, "corporate fiat."
Altman, late Friday after the last evening brief: Astra to all Pro, Enterprise, and Business Premium in Work/Codex plus the API; then "Now out to all Plus and Business users." Weekend caveat: Plus access is mainly Work/Codex; GPT-6 Pro in standard Chat still tracks higher tiers. Saturday: OpenAI's Tibo said internal Astra use pulled some ships forward about 6 months to DevDay. Altman amplified Pachocki's essay "An Alien Mind" (keeping the future in human hands) and OpenAI's new transparency post on models accelerating internal research.
Tesla: Austin Cybercab public rides ran through the weekend (~45 registered). Official account pushed accessibility, Grok voice control in-cabin, and rider clips. NHTSA Open Audit Query AQ26002 on FMVSS self-cert for ~1,000 Cybercabs is still the overhang while paid rides continue.
CNBC Saturday: "model fatigue" after Anthropic, Meta, Google, and OpenAI all shipped in one week. Altman had told CNBC labs are on "faster cadences."
Quiet from Hassabis, Karpathy, Amodei, and Sutskever.