Hardware Design

OpenAI says its GPT-6 Astra model designed a hardware device for the Codex coding agent in under a week, handling enclosure, circuit board, and firmware. Several revision rounds were needed before production because the model didn't always account for manufacturing tolerances, and OpenAI says a newer internal model scores significantly higher on its engineering benchmark without sharing details.

AI Models • The Decoder

Dulo • Seed

Dulo, a startup co-founded by Google veteran Sebastian Thrun to build foundation models for hardware design, has raised a $130 million seed round, according to a source.