# GPT-6 Astra: what I've logged

> GPT-6 Astra comes up in 2 posts of my AI log, from August 2026 to November 2026, and each item below links to the primary source. The sources come from MIT CSAIL and OpenAI, filed under science, robotics and agents and coding.

## Items

1. **Sparks of Weight-Space Programming** (MIT CSAIL, 1 Nov 2026): MIT researchers report that GPT-6 Astra can read network weights to name the trained task, and edit 0.016% of Qwen3.5-0.8B's weights to lift MATH-500 from 7.9% to 48.1% with no training loop. [Primary source](https://rikiyat.github.io/blog/weight-space-programming) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-11-02-weight-space-programming-cosmos-framework-suno-chat#item-1)
2. **GPT-6 Astra** (OpenAI, 31 Aug 2026): OpenAI's flagship for computer use, coding and research, with a 1.05M-token window, 128K output and $10 in and $50 out per million tokens. [Primary source](https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-6-astra) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-08-31-week-in-ai#item-2)

## Posts

- 2026-11-02 [Weight-space programming, Cosmos Framework, Suno Chat, Olmo 3](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-11-02-weight-space-programming-cosmos-framework-suno-chat)
- 2026-08-31 [Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra both land, plus Gemini 3.8 Flash](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-08-31-week-in-ai)

Canonical: https://heyaliasif.com/ai/topics/gpt-6-astra