Language model drives a real car through a drive-thru

Three engineers at Axiom hooked OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra—a model built for text and code—to the steering and cameras of a 2024 Toyota Corolla, letting the AI navigate a California drive-thru and complete a cone course in 5 minutes and 22 seconds. 🚗

You might expect only specialized software to drive, but the team wanted to test how well text models handle the physical world. The AI made decisions in real time using ongoing chat commands while a human kept a foot over the brake. 🤖

In a closed parking lot test against other systems, GPT-6 Astra reached 100% of the course, while rival models like Claude Fable 5.1 reached 45% and Grok stopped at 11%.

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