Databricks says OpenAI GPT-6 Astra is available as a day-zero release through Unity Gateway for agentic reasoning on production data. Internal evals claim state-of-the-art quality and efficiency on OfficeQA Pro, OfficeQA Pro V2, and Document Processing, with the same governance, audit, and cost controls already used for Claude, Gemini, and Grok. Docs cover how to try it.

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  • ✓Availability: Astra is day-zero via Unity Gateway for production data.
  • ✓Evals: claims SOTA quality/efficiency on OfficeQA Pro/V2 and document processing.
  • ✓Governance: same audit and cost controls as Claude, Gemini, and Grok.
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