OpenAI ships GPT-4.1 without a safety report

On Monday, OpenAI launched a new family of AI models, GPT-4.1, which the company said outperformed some of its existing models on certain tests, particularly benchmarks for programming. However, GPT-4.1 didn’t ship with the safety report that typically accompanies OpenAI’s model releases, known as a model or system card. As of Tuesday morning, OpenAI had yet to publish a safety report for GPT-4.1 — and it seems it doesn’t plan to. In a statement to TechCrunch, OpenAI spokesperson Shaokyi Amdo said that “GPT-4.1 is not a frontier model, so there...