OpenAI scraps plans to publicly launch a model dubbed GPT-6.1 Astra, saying it didn't quite meet its safety bar; it had been targeting an October release (Maxwell Zeff/Wall Street Journal)

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<p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260928/p37#a260928p37" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Maxwell Zeff / <a href="https://www.wsj.com/">Wall Street Journal</a>:<br />
<span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-chatgpt-model-release-cancel-safety-5a2f9f42?st=u6jQPM">OpenAI scraps plans to publicly launch a model dubbed GPT-6.1 Astra, saying it didn't quite meet its safety bar; it had been targeting an October release</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Model dubbed GPT-6.1 Astra was due to make its debut inside ChatGPT and Codex in October&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; OpenAI is scrapping the release &hellip; </p>

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