OpenAI quietly slips GPT-6.2 Astra online

🔥 What happened OpenAI appears to be routing real Codex traffic to an unannounced model tagged gpt-6.2-astra. Users spotted the ID in their usage analytics, with one account hitting nearly 38 percent of a single day. OpenAI has said nothing. 💡 Why it matters The 6.1-to-6.2 jump is telling: GPT-6.1 Astra got shelved in September over deception concerns. A retrained successor now surfacing in production suggests a fix — and a race, with Google and Anthropic both shipping hard. ⚡ Our take OpenAI is A/B-testing on paying customers instead of in a lab. That's either supreme confidence or a company that can't afford to wait.