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As of August 6, 2026, OpenAI has not announced a public release date for GPT-6.[1][4] The latest officially documented frontier release is still GPT-5.6, which rolled out to general availability in July 2026.[1][3]
So the most accurate answer is:
There is no confirmed GPT-6 release date yet.
What is known from current official material is that OpenAI has continued extending the GPT-5 family rather than publishing a dated GPT-6 launch plan.[1][3] The official API/model documentation available in this search also does not identify a GPT-6 model or timetable.[4]
In short: GPT-6 may come later, but OpenAI has not publicly said when.
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The new answer gives specific rollout timing—an early-September announcement and ChatGPT expansion on October 7–8, 2026—and clarifies which models are surfaced to different ChatGPT tiers. The standing answer described staged availability but gave no dates or tier-specific model access.
The answer changed
The consensus shifted completely from providing specific details about a released model named 'GPT-6 Astra' (including specs, benchmarks, and pricing) to stating that no such model name, release, or pricing can be confirmed from official sources.
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The consensus changes from GPT-6 being entirely unconfirmed and unreleased to GPT-6 Astra being officially announced, partially deployed, and documented with specific capabilities, benchmarks, context limits, safety classification, and pricing.
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The new answer omits and effectively contradicts the old answer’s central claim that OpenAI officially confirmed an internal unreleased model called Astra. It instead states that no successor has been officially announced, changing the conclusion about what OpenAI has publicly acknowledged.
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Read this versionOpenAI gpt-5.6-luna · Google Gemini gemini-3.5-flash-lite · Grok grok-4.3-no-reasoning
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Model C introduces Astra as an internal next major model that might be related to future releases.
Grok
“On August 1, 2026, OpenAI published a research blog post detailing ten advances”
Models A and B do not discuss Astra and focus solely on the GPT-5.6 family and the absence of a GPT-6 date.
Gemini, OpenAI
“announced a release date for GPT-6”