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.
- Scored 62.7% on ARC-AGI-3; GPT-5.6 Sol scored 7.78% and Claude Opus 5 about 30%
- Finished Pokemon FireRed in 18h 12m versus 96h 35m for GPT-5.6 Sol
- Vals AI Minecraft run used only screen, mouse, and keyboard with no specialized game hookup
- ARC Prize says the agent turns observations into reusable self-written symbolic rules
- After a Creeper explosion it wrote self-protective rules and farmed potatoes for hours
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OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra shows a sharp jump in video games. Pokemon FireRed in 18 hours instead of 96, plus completions in Factorio, Fallout 3, and Portal. Why?
By Maximilian Schreiner · the-decoder.com
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