OpenAI's GPT-6 can do the whole job now 🤖

Good morning. OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, a new flagship model that acts less like a chatbot and more like something you hand a whole job to. Universal Music and ElevenLabs teamed up to build a licensed AI music platform, which might finally make AI songs safe to actually use. And AI videos of tiny village grandmas out-lifting pro bodybuilders are taking over the feed. Would you use AI music if it couldn't get you copyright struck? Hit reply and let me know! Let's get into it.

OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, its new flagship model, and it's rolling out to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Business over the next few days. If you pay for ChatGPT, it's either already there or about to be.

The big shift is that it acts less like a chatbot and more like something you hand a whole job to. Instead of walking it through every step, you can give it a task and let it go do the multi-step work on its own, and it's noticeably faster than the last model. OpenAI is even calling it the start of AGI… which is a huge claim to take with a grain of salt. The huge part? This is the model now sitting behind a lot of the AI tools you already use.

The public version is rolling out in stages, so depending on your plan you might be waiting a few days or hit the occasional refusal. And if you’re a creator using ChatGPT to research topics, write scripts, or plan out content, it's worth poking at this week to see how much it can take off your plate.

ElevenLabs and Universal Music Group signed a multi-year deal to build a new AI music platform, and it's a big one because UMG is one of the largest labels on the planet. The plan is a platform where fans can remix, mashup, and make new versions of real songs from artists who opt in, with those artists actually getting paid.

Here's why it matters. AI music has been a legal minefield, and using a track built on who-knows-what training data leaves you one copyright claim away from a strike. Something built on licensed catalog with artists opting in is the first version of this that's actually cleared to use. It also landed a day after Suno launched its own label-backed model with Warner and BMG, so the whole licensed AI music era is basically kicking off all at once.

If you've been staying away from AI music because of the copyright headache, this is the shift to watch. Legit, licensed tracks you can drop into a video without sweating a takedown is the thing a lot of creators have been waiting for.

The latest AI video trend is turning the last people you'd expect into total powerhouses. Think tiny village grandmas, aunties, and old farmers casually hauling loads that would flatten a pro bodybuilder, with AI-added muscles to match. The video did over 1 million views in the first week.

It works for the same reason wrestling cats go viral. You get a jolt of "wait, what" from a sweet-looking grandma lifting a huge bags of rice. The joke kind of writes itself, and AI is now good enough at bodies and motion that it reads as almost believable.

Here's the playbook. Take someone nobody would expect, put them in a normal everyday setting doing real work, and crank the strength up to cartoon levels. Kling and Veo handle the motion, and picking one recurring character people come back for is what turns a one off video into a followed account.

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