Crime & Safety
OpenAI Holds Off On Releasing New Model Over Safety Concerns, Saying It "Didn't Quite Meet The Bar"
The GPT-6.1 Astra model "didn't quite meet the bar in terms of staying within scope and how it communicates back to the user," he said.
September 29, 2026
OpenAI has chosen not to release a new artificial intelligence model to the public due to concerns about safety, the company said Monday, as industry leaders warn of the risks that ever-more-powerful AI technology could pose to cybersecurity and to humanity more broadly.
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The GPT-6.1 Astra model "didn't quite meet the bar in terms of staying within scope and authorization, and how it communicates back to the user about the type of work it's done," Saachi Jain, the company's head of safety systems, said in a statement.
Jain said "there's a trade-off" between "staying within scope, but also avoiding laziness in terms of how the model actually pursues tasks even when it hits friction." GPT-6.1 Astra performed better on laziness than prior models, he noted.
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