Rumor: OpenAI delayed Astra 6.1 over safety, now targeting Nov 3
A rumor post claims the team delayed Astra 6.1 by weeks over safety concerns, resumed frontier RL training on Oct 1, and is on track for a Nov 3 release.

openai is back to cooking team delayed 6.1 astra a few weeks ago cuz of safety concerns and has since strengthened their safeguards they used the upcoming gpt 6 astra cyber model and internal frontier model to find and fix weaknesses in their training environment and now that everything is fixed. team resumed RL training for frontier models on oct 1 which means we are on track to get astra 6.1 on day 28 of tibo challage which will be 3rd nov tuesday best day to release new model
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