NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs Power OpenAI GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast Mode
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast, running on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, is now available in the OpenAI API and to eligible ChatGPT Work and Codex users. NVIDIA says inference optimizations tapping Blackwell architecture deliver up to 8x faster token generation than Astra Standard mode.
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