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Sam Altman, the last 18 posts, read by six needles; the score counts the 7 that are words only. A reading of the words, not a verdict on the person, and not a prediction of reach.
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1 of 18 Strongest post
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I spent much of the weekend talking with the team who did this work. Seb--and everyone else--acted with integrity and generosity throughout. Initially we believed the other team had also solved the problem. We wanted to collaborate and do a joint release. When we learned that they had Euler but not Navier-Stokes, we offered to let them go first, to suggest that they should be the ones to get the prize, and optionally for Tristan to be the lead author on a rewrite of the OpenAI proof. We felt it was challenging to offer the same to Levent (an Anthropic employee), who was not willing to talk or coordinate with us anyway. We were open to other solutions. We would have greatly preferred coordination. We did not rush to publish even though the other team wasn't communicating with us. The team threatened us with unfounded accusations of plagarism. Now that we can see their work, the approaches appear to be different. It is also worth noting that our latest model can solve many, many other math problems. It is true that we tried this because there were rumors on the internet last week that Anthropic's models had solved a millennium problem and we were curious if ours could do it too.
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2 of 18 6.1Mviews14Klikes2.1Kreposts2.7Kreplies
The world deserves confidence that American companies developing increasingly capable AI will act responsibly, especially as the trajectory of progress has steepened. Every frontier lab must deliver on this, and there is no reason any of us should come to work if we cannot. We welcome a federal framework that sets consistent safety requirements for frontier AI. But we do not believe we need to wait for an anti-trust exemption or legislation to begin the work of providing this confidence. Consistent rules to manage frontier risk so that we can maximize the benefits are a good idea (and we are excited by ideas like independent auditors). Years ago, companies like ours developed things like Responsible Scaling Policies and Preparedness Frameworks. Those were good for that moment, and focused primarily on the deployment of completed models, not what happens during their development process. Today's shift to focusing on safe development and evaluation will need new tools. For example, at OpenAI we now formulate explicit safety cases in advance of frontier reinforcement learning runs we expect to significantly increase capability, in addition to the safety work we have long done in advance of model releases. We hope that other companies will learn from our approaches and propose their own; we think shared standards for misalignment, monitoring, and safety will lead to better outcomes. We look forward to collaborating with our colleagues across the industry to formulate the best version of these. When we talk about “pacing”, we do not mean “stopping”. Progress has been rapid and will continue to be. But it should be slower than it otherwise could be; interventions like safety cases and monitoring have significant costs. Pacing will be well worth this cost; no amount of American competitive pressure should justify recklessness, or let capabilities get ahead of alignment and monitoring. Where we will need the help of our government is for international coordination. But first we should do what we can ourselves.
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3 of 18 4.1Mviews12Klikes669reposts915replies
We want to celebrate with people using GPT-6. We did this for GPT-5.5 and it was really fun. We’re getting together in SF on September 16 to talk about the model, what we should build next, and mostly just to hang out. Apply by Sep 10:
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4 of 18 2.5Mviews22Klikes1.2Kreposts927replies
GPT-6 Astra is now available to all Pro, Enterprise, and Business Premium users in Work/Codex, and is available in the API. We will start rollout to Plus and Business users next. Thank you for the patience.
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5 of 18 17.0Mviews68Klikes12Kreposts5.2Kreplies
I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier. This has been a primary topic of discussions we've had at OpenAI in recent weeks. Committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea, and we will do the same. We'll have more to share soon.
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6 of 18 1.9Mviews18Klikes820reposts1.5Kreplies
it is obviously trivial relative to everything else, but the fact that astra can make me whatever fun little game i can imagine and i can be playing it a few minutes later is so cool
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7 of 18 1.8Mviews19Klikes1.4Kreposts866replies
Images 2.5 is here. I don't think it can solve super difficult math problems, but it is really good and we hope you enjoy it.
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8 of 18 5.8Mviews13Klikes955reposts1.6Kreplies
the main thing i was excited about launching this week will be next week instead, but imo worth the wait!
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9 of 18 4.7Mviews21Klikes3.6Kreposts4.7Kreplies
There are two ways AI progress could go very badly and that we must avoid. First, we could lose control of the future to AI. This is unacceptable; we are unapologetically on Team Humanity, and AI must always serve people. To ensure that, we need ways to ensure that alignment and safety techniques stay ahead of progress in model capabilities. Second, we could end up in a world with too much concentration of power. If an extraordinarily powerful AI is used by one person or company to impress their worldview onto everyone else, the results could be extremely dystopian. Avoiding these two threats requires walking a narrow middle path; for example, one country could gain too much power. Another example is one lab ending up with too much power.
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10 of 18 1.4Mviews18Klikes980reposts1.1Kreplies
Now out to all Plus and Business users. Happy building!
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11 of 18 3.6Mviews17Klikes1.7Kreposts1.0Kreplies
ocarina of time remake is the best news in a long time. i will be unavailable november 5 and 6; need to find a case of mountain dew.
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12 of 18 1.3Mviews4.8Klikes183reposts551replies
Welcome, Paul. Grateful you are doing this, and all you have done for AI safety. Excited to work together again.
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13 of 18 1.7Mviews8.3Klikes304reposts703replies
This would suck, but we will prioritize great service for customers until we can get back on top of things.
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One of the most amazing moments for me in OpenAI history was watching this happen over the past week:
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15 of 18 2.8Mviews3.4Klikes298reposts511replies
The world has extremely capable models now; I did not expect a result of this magnitude to happen so soon. We have been talking a lot about the need to pace progress to ensure safety; for me this is the strongest evidence yet of the urgency.
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16 of 18 1.7Mviews5.9Klikes361reposts571replies
An important post from Jakub:
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17 of 18 4.4Mviews14Klikes1.1Kreposts1.2Kreplies
big 🚢 this week and then for devday 🚢🚢🚢🚢🚢🚢
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18 of 18 Weakest post
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We are also excited!
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