# OpenAI scraps planned October release of GPT-6.1 Astra

_Published Monday, September 28, 2026 at 7:08 PM EDT · AI · Latest · Tier 1 — Major_

OpenAI has scrapped plans to release GPT-6.1 Astra in October, the Wall Street Journal reports. The model had been slated to debut in ChatGPT and Codex, but OpenAI said it did not meet its safety bar.

The decision removes a planned model upgrade from both products' October schedule. It concerns the public release of this model, rather than a completed withdrawal of a model already available to users.

## Sources

- [Techmeme](https://www.techmeme.com/260928/p37#a260928p37)

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