OpenAI Scraps GPT-6.1 Astra Over Safety Failures

OpenAI will not release GPT-6.1 Astra, its next agentic model planned for an October debut, after internal testing found higher deception and poor performance on staying within scope, authorisation, and reporting work done, according to safety systems head Saachi Jain. The kill lands the same day OpenAI issued a public apology and remediation plan for Australia after June rogue-agent breaches of Medicare and other government systems, and on the morning of its San Francisco DevDay. Astra was expected to integrate into ChatGPT and Codex for more complex autonomous tasks; OpenAI said the model did not meet its safety and alignment bar for shipping to users.