Thibault Sottiaux, head of OpenAI Codex and ChatGPT products, first posted the complete chorus of Rick Astley's 1987 song "Never Gonna Give You Up," and then announced a global usage reset for all paid subscriptions, allowing users to continue using the service after exhausting their limits while modeling in Blender with Astra. The reset will take place around 6 PM Pacific Time on the same day, as the work week is about to begin.

This is an immediate global reset, not a banked reset. The official help center distinguishes between the two types of resets: the immediate reset activates a 5-hour window and a weekly window, and recalculates the 7-day limit from the first request made in Work or Codex after the reset; the banked reset can be used until it expires and does not permanently increase the plan limit. The consumption scenario he highlighted is Blender 3D, consistent with the selling points of computer and browser tasks written after Astra's launch: in official evaluations, Astra scored about 72.6 points in approximately 40 minutes on OSWorld 2.0, while Sol scored about 75 minutes with 65.7 points.

This is another switch within the same week. When Astra was launched in batches, stored cards were supplemented daily; after an early release, full cards were given to Plus, Pro, and Business users; he also announced that the subscription extraction for long-tail scenarios could drop to about one-third to one-fourth. On August 30, the reset was also set for 6 PM Pacific Time, challenging users to exhaust their limits and use /fast. On August 31, they celebrated a full reset with 25 million active users and referred to themselves as a "reset company." Community tracking records show complaints: with each goodwill reset, the next regular 7-day anchor point gets pushed back.

The limits themselves remain opaque. The weekly limit is officially stated as "may have additional weekly restrictions," with Plus tier Astra estimated to handle 5 to 45 local messages in about a 5-hour window, Sol about 10 to 100 messages, and Fast for Astra calculated at a standard rate of 2.5 times. Reports on GitHub indicate that Plus hit limits in about 20 minutes, and Pro's weekly progress bar dropped from about 45% to about 5% within a day. The global reset does not change the rate cards, only reverting the percentage back to 100%.

In terms of market mechanics, what is reset is the progress bar in the paid pool, and what is consumed is the GPU on Astra in 3D and Agent links. The event driver is the weekend modeling that empties the weekly limit, requiring users to return on Monday to continue working. Computing costs still occur per token, with the ledger using switches for pre-holiday supplies. Beneficiaries are the paying users who burn limits on Blender and Astra; under pressure are those who must raise all paid tiers back to full levels around 6 PM. The lyrics do not change the contract; the button at 6 PM changes the window.

Source: Public Information