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Morning Edition · Friday, November 6, 2026Published at 5:11 AM EST · New York
OpenAI reports an unreleased model scoring 0.875 on BenchCAD 2.0, against 0.594 for GPT-6 Astra
The benchmark's maintainers have not listed the result, OpenAI has not published its evaluation settings or named the model, and the best public score remains Astra's 0.59.
OpenAI disclosed first details of an unannounced model specialized for engineering and hardware tasks, according to a Russian-language AI channel that tracks lab releases. The figure that spread fastest is a BenchCAD 2.0 average of 0.875 fo…
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