The news of September 10thOpenAI Codex Tibo SottioTibo SottiauxToday, on platform X, it is stated that users' “unprecedented” demand for Astra has prompted companies to mobilize all available resources to secure supplies. He mentioned that even during the past period of high growth, the current level of demand had never emerged. He stressed the priority given to safeguarding the user experience of existing users and said that if demand continued to rise, new Pro subscriptions might be temporarily suspended。
Astra is GPT-6 Astra, the model was first opened to selected institutions on 3 September and then expanded to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise subscribers, and also supported the API, Azure and Bedrock platforms。
1AI noted that Astra had experienced capacity bottlenecks at the beginning of the line and that some fee-paying users were unable to access the model. To this end, Tybo announced that every day since September 3, when users were not able to use the model properly, the amount of pre-existing use would be reset; the company CEO Sam Altman described the go-live process as “a mess”. Later, Astra was included in the regular quota system, and the official claim that after optimizing the long end use scenario, consumption could be reduced to a maximum of one quarter to one third. The number of active users in the previous week was about 20 million. User feedback servers are still overloading and consumption is fast, and Astra consumes more quotas than Sol when it does the same。
This early warning is for new Pro subscriptions and does not terminate the subscription service for existing users. Tiber had previously promised that Codex would remain in the free version of the dinner with Plus。
Institutionally, this is a quota limitation and not a downgrading of modelling capacity. The fee-paying user buys services to acquire the most powerful intelligence to write codes and manipulate computers, while OpenAI, as a service provider, packs up the top large models into a fixed monthly subscription model. Pauses new Pro subscriptions, which is essentially to prioritize new computing resources to stabilize existing user experiences and avoid slowing down all user services. The beneficiary is an old user who has purchased a Pro meal with an enterprise。