# OpenAI has a new internal model that is way ahead of GPT 6 Astra in math

*Published on: Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:00:00 GMT*

OpenAI has a new internal model that is way ahead of GPT 6 Astra in math

On a curated set of open math problems, it reaches about 48% pass rate with more test time compute.

GPT 6 Astra peaks at around 17%.

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