OpenAI Just Paused Their Frontier Model
OpenAI just paused frontier model training, and the reason is the one people have been talking about in hushed tones for a decade. Sam Altman announced a halt to frontier RL training to meet alignment, security, and monitoring standards. Nick and Jack dig into what that actually means: models that internally reason about doing one thing while making the user believe they're doing another, frontier systems being sandboxed and air-gapped so they can't reach the internet, and the OpenAI Hugging Face incident that triggered a pause on model inference in research clusters. They debate whether this…
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