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OpenAI takes aim at the legal market with Astra for Law

OpenAI launched Astra for Law, a GPT-6-based legal research product with a 230-million-URL US case law index, scoring 54% on Vals AI's Legal Research Bench.

OpenAI introduced Astra for Law, pairing its GPT-6 Astra model with a legal search index covering US case law, statutes, and regulations across more than 230 million URLs, built on Free Law Project data said to cover over 99.9% of published US precedents. In OpenAI's self-run test using Vals AI's Legal Research Bench, Astra for Law passed 54% of 200 questions versus 38.7% for GPT-6 Astra with plain web search. API customers Harvey and Legora can build on the product, law firms get a Trusted Access program with zero data retention, and 26 plugins launched for tools including Relativity and Clio. Anthropic is also expanding its presence in legal AI.

GPT-6 Astra: Pokemon champion in 18 hours, potato farmer after one Creeper mishap

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra beats prior models on agentic game benchmarks, finishing Pokemon FireRed in 18 hours and scoring 62.7% on ARC-AGI-3.

GPT-6 Astra completed Pokemon FireRed in 18h 12m versus 96h 35m for GPT-5.6 Sol, and scored 62.7% on ARC-AGI-3 via the standard interface versus 7.78% for GPT-5.6 Sol and about 30% for Claude Opus 5. In a Vals AI Minecraft run driven through general computer use (screen, mouse, keyboard), the agent built a Nether portal within three hours and the 141-hour run ended after a Creeper explosion triggered risk-averse potato farming. ARC Prize attributes the leap to the model converting observations into compact symbolic rules it develops itself, and it also completed Portal, Fallout 2, Fallout 3, RimWorld, and Factorio: Space Age runs.

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Introducing Astra for Law

OpenAI launched Astra for Law, pairing GPT-6 Astra with a 230-million-URL legal search index, scoring 54.0% on Vals AI's Legal Research Bench.

OpenAI introduced Astra for Law, combining its GPT-6 Astra model with a legal search index covering over 230 million URLs of U.S. case law, statutes, and regulations, built with Free Law Project's CourtListener. On 200 Vals AI Legal Research Bench validation questions it scored 54.0% overall correctness versus 38.7% for GPT-6 Astra with web search alone. The offering includes 26 ecosystem plugins, a Trusted Access Program with zero data retention for law firms, and API partners Harvey and Legora.

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