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Sources: Crusoe raised $3B+ at a ~$30B post-money valuation; Atreides Management and Valor Equity Partners co-led the round, with Mubadala Capital participating (Bloomberg)
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, trained on more than 100,000 GPUs at the Texas Stargate facility and priced at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens. In ARC-AGI-3 benchmarks it achieved 62.7% with a standard harness and 99.9% with a provider-adapter harness, outperforming Claude Opus 5 (30.2%) and GPT-5.6 (7.8%). Venture firm Crusoe raised over $3 billion, reaching a roughly $30 billion post-money valuation, with Atreides Management and Valor Equity Partners co-leading and Mubadala Capital participating.