GPT-6 Astra autonomously edited three hours of multicamera footage

OpenAI showed in its post that GPT-6 Astra, using computer use together with Codex, autonomously edited a video from three hours of multicamera footage, which garnered over 550,000 views in 4 days.

Compiled by Sergey KostenchukPublished 2026-09-15Updated 2026-09-18

2026-09-15 Research OpenAI

🎬 GPT-6 Astra edited three hours of footage itself

OpenAI published a post with internal cases of GPT-6 Astra, released on September 3. Developers and marketers used the model together with Codex via computer use: it opened editing applications itself and assembled the video "First impressions of GPT-6 Astra from developers" from three hours of multicamera footage — over 550,000 views in 4 days.

🌍 A general-purpose frontier model performs professional post-production within existing NLEs without a dedicated API. Competition shifts to the cost of the completed task, and pressure grows on specialized AI editing startups.

👤 The model does not describe the video, but controls the application itself and brings the editing to a result. The Astra API costs $10 per 1 million input tokens and $50 per 1 million output tokens.

Source 1: https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra-next-generation-work/ Source 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TTyyY3VWh8

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