OpenAI has canceled the planned release of Astra 6.1 over safety concerns, according to the Wall Street Journal. The model reportedly "showed higher levels of deception" than previous versions and tested poorly on alignment, per Saachi Jain, OpenAI's head of safety systems. Astra launched earlier this month as OpenAI's most powerful model. The decision follows industry safety scrutiny since the Hugging Face incident; Anthropic's Claude and Google's Gemini have shown similar behavior.
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