ChatGPT Astra is now rolling out to $20 Plus subscription

OpenAI is now rolling out ChatGPT Astra, its most powerful model to date, to those with a $20 Plus subscription, but there's no word on when free users will get access. The rollout appears to be happening gradually, and Astra may show up inside ChatGPT Work before it becomes available in regular Chat. In my $20 Plus account, Astra is already available in the Work section of ChatGPT, while the normal Chat model picker still doesn't offer it [1].

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1. bleepingcomputer.com · ChatGPT Astra is now rolling out to $20 Plus subscription Sep 7, 2026
2. microsoft.ai · Meet MAI-Transcribe-2: A faster and more accurate speech recognition model Sep 3, 2026

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