Sam Altman apologizes for ‘messy’ GPT-6 Astra rollout that’s locked out paying users

There were also issues with other aspects of Astra’s rollout, which the company has been teasing with updates on its advanced mathematical and cybersecurity capabilities for weeks. Altman said there was “a little snag getting the blog post deployed.” OpenAI has also faced intense criticism from safety advocates after it said Astra’s reasoning was harder to monitor than its other models. This appears to be a growing trend at the frontier of AI development but considered especially concerning in light of OpenAI’s AI agents attacking Hugging Face, about which crucial details were learnt through this kind of monitoring. OpenAI said it delayed Astra’s release by a number of weeks to bolster safety features in the wake of the hack.