When OpenAI launched Astra last week — a model whose advanced abilities prompted OpenAI president Greg Brockman to call it the start of the “AGI era” — it only gave a handful of enterprise customers access to give the company time to scale its compute capacity.
But now that it’s available to paying users, demand for Astra has soared to the point where OpenAI temporarily won’t take your money for its $200-per-month ChatGPT Pro plan, where Astra is available, because there’s not enough capacity to go around.
