AI news this week: GPT-6 Astra is here and it does everything. We spent a week inside it (Blender, GarageBand, a full live game) to find out what it's actually great at.

On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell go hands-on with OpenAI's Astra, aka GPT-6, and it's real good (and real expensive). The headline for us is computer use, and specifically Blender: Astra builds 3D scenes from a sentence, and the internet is already making Backrooms worlds, a hyper-real Palace of Fine Arts, and the Billie Jean dance. Gavin ran his own experiments, including a Parappa The Rapper style animation and a head-to-head with GPT 5.6. Plus: Astra identifying sounds from spectrograms, driving MS Paint and Canva, editing a full project, playing Zork as a walk-around game, remaking Paperboy in 3D, editing Super Nintendo games in real time, making music in Logic, and a League of Legends "cease and desist edition" that raises the big question of how copyright even keeps up with this.

Also: the OpenAI Navier-Stokes math drama. NYU's Tristan Buckmaster and Anthropic's Levent Alpöge used AI to make a real advance on a 200-year-old fluid problem, and then, according to Buckmaster, OpenAI raced in with a 100-page proof of the same route and things got very ugly over credit. When your AI collaborator's lab can see what you're close to, who owns the idea?

Plus: Gavin built King of the Prompts, a live competitive prompting game made with Astra and MiniMax H3 Max, and he'll tell you what it is, why he made it, and what it costs to run. And an AI See What You Did There with Skyrim: Senior Living, AI Denzel Washington delivering maybe the best AI video ever made, and a fruit fly brain that learned the YMCA (and lost the ability to love).

WE'RE DEEP IN THE ASTRA JUICE. SEND HELP (AND TOKENS).

// Chapters //

00:00 GPT-6 Astra Is Real Good (And Real Expensive)

03:35 What Astra Is Actually Good At: Computer Use

06:15 Astra In Blender: Backrooms, Palace Of Fine Arts & Billie Jean

10:57 Astra Remakes Paperboy & Will People Play AI Games?

16:20 Astra Makes Music In Logic (And Simulates A DJ Stage)

19:40 Kevin's Existential Crisis Of App Release

22:50 The OpenAI Navier-Stokes Drama: Who Owns An AI-Assisted Proof?

27:59 Gavin Built King Of The Prompts (Astra + MiniMax H3 Max)

35:15 AI See What You Did There: Skyrim Senior Living, AI Denzel & FLY-M-C-A

// Show Links //

OpenAI introduces GPT-6 Astra

https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/

Duncan Trussell's Backrooms in Blender (the whole thread is great)

https://x.com/duncantrussell/status/2096003511104508411

Hyper-realistic Palace of Fine Arts in Blender

https://x.com/sharifshameem/status/2095653641164329143

Recreating the Billie Jean dance in Blender

https://x.com/flavioAd/status/2097067419248296389

Gavin's Parappa The Rapper style animation

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2096454789328752682

Gavin: Astra builds a scene from scratch vs GPT 5.6

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2096234912441626724

Astra identifies sounds from spectrograms

https://x.com/maxxrubin_/status/2096892510241268094

Astra in MS Paint (and Canva)

https://x.com/The_Alex/status/2096776453283360803

Zork as a walk-around game

https://x.com/emollick/status/2096047660662722620

Paperboy 3D remake

https://x.com/builtbysketch/status/2096515959469072630

League of Legends: Cease and Desist Edition

https://x.com/konstiwohlwend/status/2097164513527357608

Matt Shumer's AI agent Unreal project

https://x.com/mattshumer_/status/2096034353344139519

SuperAstra: edit Super Nintendo games in real time

https://x.com/scottastevenson/status/2096972908828426747

https://github.com/ScottStevenson/SuperAstra

Astra connected to Logic to make music

https://x.com/MarioSaputra/status/2096908100871836123

DJ stage simulations

https://x.com/cerspense/status/2096960824535572498

The OpenAI Navier-Stokes credit drama (Buckmaster's account)

https://x.com/cguth_7/status/2097206622602854882

King of the Prompts (Gavin's new game)

https://kingoftheprompts.com/

Skyrim: Senior Living

https://x.com/GORMTHEOLD25/status/2096994048758137013

AI Denzel Washington on AI slop

https://x.com/Nekodificador/status/2096682353011630237

FLY-M-C-A: a fruit fly brain learns the YMCA

https://x.com/dhruvbhatia0/status/2097047404239581265

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