Rumor: OpenAI scraps planned October release of GPT-6.1 Astra

imjustnewatai · x · 2026-09-29

User synthwavedd claims OpenAI has scrapped the planned October release of GPT-6.1 Astra, meaning no new frontier model anytime soon; another user reacted with surprise. (Unofficial, unverified.)

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