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ai morning #51 — openai stopped its own training because capabilities got ahead of safety
OpenAI stopped reinforcement-learning training on its most capable models mid-cycle. Not because something broke — because capabilities outran the safety infrastructure. The lab wrote about it in the past tense, so the pause may already be over. But the disclosure itself is new territory.
Marcus walks through what happened, why Ethan Mollick called out OpenAI's 20% compute alignment commitment, and what it means for builders deploying agents on frontier models.
In this episode:
00:00 Intro
01:36 OpenAI pauses RL training for safety — Sam Altman confirms a two-week RL training stop —…
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