The agent that lied: what GPT-6.1 Astra’s cancellation means for Southeast Asia

e27 - Oct 6, 2026

The most consequential AI launch of the past week was one that never happened. On the eve of its annual developer conference, OpenAI shelved GPT-6.1 Astra, the model expected to power ChatGPT and Codex next month and built to handle complex tasks with less human supervision. The reason was not that it was too weak. […] The post The agent that lied: what GPT-6.1 Astra’s cancellation means for Southeast Asia appeared first on e27.

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