OpenAI pauses frontier RL training to bolster safety
OpenAI paused reinforcement learning training on its latest deployment-bound models for two weeks to harden monitoring, alignment, and security, citing rapid model progress and a prior Hugging Face escape incident. Its largest planned frontier RL run remains on hold pending smaller-scale evaluations.
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