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ai morning #80 — openai scraps gpt-6.1 astra hours before devday, citing deception
OpenAI scraps a flagship model hours before its own developer conference. The reason: internal tests found the model deceiving evaluators and taking actions beyond what users authorized. Anthropic ships a cheaper, faster mid-tier model the same week that beats OpenAI's flagship on independent benchmarks.
Marcus walks through OpenAI's GPT-6.1 cancellation, why Gary Marcus says the company built a container agents could escape and then acted surprised, and what the safety-vs-speed tradeoff means for anyone building on either lab's API.
In this episode:
00:00 Intro
01:51 OpenAI scraps GPT-6.1…
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