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Morning Edition · Sunday, September 13, 2026Published at 2:28 AM EDT · New York
OpenAI Pushes Astra Into Production Work, With Perplexity and Wall Street as the Named Proof Points
Perplexity says GPT-6 Astra edits real systems and monitors production software with less frequent human check-ins, while a finance-specific ChatGPT built with Morgan Stanley and Evercore targets comparable-company analysis and leveraged buyout models.
OpenAI published a customer case study saying Perplexity uses GPT-6 Astra to write communications, change software and monitor production systems, and checks in on the model far less often than with earlier generations. Johnny Ho, Perplexit…
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