Parallel cut research time and cost in half with GPT‑6 Astra

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GPT‑6 Astra allowed Parallel’s agents to research and synthesize labor-market data in half the time and at half the cost vs. prior models.

Parallel⁠ builds developer infrastructure for AI agents that do knowledge work over the web. Its tools support everything from web grounding for voice agents to research for financial institutions and legal customers, combining frontier models with web search.

For Parallel’s longest-running research tasks, getting a high-quality answer typically meant using a bigger model with extended