Astra: how often the top podcasts talk about it.
Astra is the name of an OpenAI model. The shows also call it GPT-6.
Astra is new to these shows. Before the four weeks to Sep 27 it was in 0 of 277 episodes. Now it is in 15 of 89 (17%), across 6 shows.
Share of episodes, four weeks at a time
The 15 episodes behind the newest bar
- Andreessen Horowitz Launches Horowitz Andreessen, New Models, Human Powered Agents, McLar…TBPN · week ending Sep 27 · said it twice
- How to build products on a moving frontier | Dan Shipper (Every)Lenny's Podcast · week ending Sep 27 · said it 7 times
- Claude is BACK with Opus 5.5How I AI · week ending Sep 27 · said it 3 times
- Opus 5.5 is great (but GPT-6 Sol is better)How I AI · week ending Sep 27 · said it 13 times
- Greg Brockman on Astra and the Future of OpenAITBPN · week ending Sep 13 · said it 6 times
- Some Personal Agent News, CharlestonAI Founder Joins, 10%, Mikey Shulman, Keith RaboisTBPN · week ending Sep 13 · said it twice
- OpenAI Cracks Navier-Stokes, Tech Trailers, AI Jobs Apocalypse on Hold | Diet TBPNTBPN · week ending Sep 13 · said it 6 times
- Fruitfly Hard Takeoff, Parker's Vineyard, Personal AgentsTBPN · week ending Sep 13 · said it 10 times
- Why Bridgewater's CIO Says AI's Human Extinction Risk Is RealOdd Lots · week ending Sep 13 · said it 4 times
- Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Sep 13 · said it 5 times
- Jobs Boom, Astra Reactions, Cybercab Roll Out, The Dyson DebateTBPN · week ending Sep 6 · said it 16 times
- Model Mayhem, Nvidia Hugging Face, Pablo Torre Joins, New Data Center DesignsTBPN · week ending Sep 6 · said it 12 times
- GPT-6 Astra blew away every one of my benchmarksHow I AI · week ending Sep 6 · said it 29 times
- The OpenAI/Hugging Face attack, clearly explainedDwarkesh Podcast · week ending Sep 6 · said it 5 times
- Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging FaceDwarkesh Podcast · week ending Sep 6 · said it twice
More from the counts
- First heard in our archive, counting any mention: the week ending Sep 6, on All-In Podcast, Dwarkesh Podcast, How I AI, Lenny's Podcast and TBPN. 20VC with Harry Stebbings and Odd Lots each first said it 1 week later. 1 more show first said it within 3 weeks of the first.
Earliest mentions in our archive
The first episode from each show that said it, oldest first. The matched words are marked.
“…story here on the All-In podcast. Open AAI is rolling out chat GPT 6 aka Astra AS folks. This is their new flagship…”
GPT-6 Hits AGI? Tech Euphoria 2.0, SF Mansion Shortage, NYC Bans AI in Schools & Venezuel…
“…that was trained to be persistent. This generation, July 13th onwards, a lot of them seem to be Astra-class models. Also, by the way, it’s not clear to me, but it sounded like they had access to this… the message board was not cleared.”
Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face
“…yes, today GPT-6 Astra is live. Well, it's live for Daybreak customers. It will be live for…”
“…functions, you don't need you don't need Mythos. You don't need Astra, I think. Is that Is that the least one coming…”
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)
“Muse Spark 1.3, we got Gemini 3.8 8 flash open AI's tease an Astra is a GPT6. There's a six where the S goes in…”
Model Mayhem, Nvidia Hugging Face, Pablo Torre Joins, New Data Center Designs
“Jensen Huang. Next, we have OpenAI releasing GPT Astra. And what on earth is going on with the AI assistant race,…”
Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town
Most recent mentions
The newest episodes that count toward the chart, no more than two from one show.
“…robotics. Like we had this this uh this guy on the show that was using Astra to paint and it was like getting better and…”
Andreessen Horowitz Launches Horowitz Andreessen, New Models, Human Powered Agents, McLar…
“…again. Uh, we had Fable 5.1 launched last week. We had Astra 6 launched last week. And these are [expletive] sick models.”
How to build products on a moving frontier | Dan Shipper (Every)
“Anthropic's own benchmarks. It beats Opus 5 at max. It matches GPT6 Astra, my favorite babe, and it's cheaper. So that…”
“…just thinking the last time we spoke to this particular guest, I think we were on like GPT-4 or something back in 2023. And now, of course, I don't even know what number we're on because we've had all these new supermodels, like Astra and Mythos and all of those coming out. I know. Six, yeah. Yeah.”
Why Bridgewater's CIO Says AI's Human Extinction Risk Is Real
“…this time with a newer, more capable model, which seems to have been built off the same base as Astra, which is the next generation of OpenAI models.”
Which shows say it
| Show | Last four weeks | All weeks counted |
|---|---|---|
| TBPN | 7 | 7 |
| How I AI | 3 | 3 |
| Dwarkesh Podcast | 2 | 2 |
| 20VC with Harry Stebbings | 1 | 1 |
| Lenny's Podcast | 1 | 1 |
| Odd Lots | 1 | 1 |
More trends
Episodes in the newest four weeks:
How we count. An episode counts when its transcript says “Astra” at least twice; plurals count too. We count a shortened re-upload of an episode we already have only once, and we skip the sponsor reads we can spot: the lines around phrases like “brought to you by”, and any passage a show reads word for word in three or more episodes. The share is the counted episodes divided by all episodes from the tech, business and science shows we cover in the same four weeks, so a busy month of releases does not raise it by itself. The mix of shows does change from month to month, and one daily show can move a number. Weeks run Monday to Sunday, and the week in progress is left out until it ends. The chart starts with the week of April 13, 2026, when our archive became steady. A few older episodes can still appear under the earliest mentions, and some weeks have gaps. Transcripts are automatic captions, so we also match the spellings they use. Counts the AI model name. As a plain word it is rare in these shows and does not move the counts. The counts cover only the shows we summarize. Download the counts (JSON) or CSV.