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
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Safety is now a hard launch gate, not just a PR line—killing a named GPT-6.1 release this close to an October target means evals and red-teaming can override roadmap. If you’re building on frontier APIs, assume capability jumps may slip or get throttled by safety reviews and design your own product timelines with more slack and fallbacks.
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