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Tom’s Hardware • Shane Downing • October 3, 2026
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra AI model was able to clear the Orc starting area in World of Warcraft (WoW) in 40 minutes with 0 deaths, agent-wow’s developer says. The model played the zone without seeing a single rendered frame, relying on network traffic and quest data pulled from the server’s own files. The approach used a single prompt in Codex with agent-wow, an open-source client, to play on a private server.
Source: Tom’s Hardware • Shane Downing • October 3, 2026