Taswar Bhatti

The next era of enterprise AI isn't going to be defined by chat experiences. It's going to be defined by how well a model can actually work for you — not just talk at you. GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI's newest frontier model, is now generally available for all customers in Microsoft Foundry. Instead of optimizing for "answer this one prompt well," Astra is built to take an open-ended challenge, reason through it in multiple steps, create a plan, and hand you a finished result.

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Microsoft has a habit of quietly upgrading the model behind a stable endpoint name instead of forcing everyone to migrate to a new one. That's exactly what just happened with GPT-chat-latest — it's now built on GPT-5.6 Sol, and if you're already pointing at GPT-chat-latest in Microsoft Foundry, you get the upgrade without touching a line of code. If you're not already using it, this is a good moment to start.