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Explanation from @sama on RL training pause: "Model progress is now extremely ra

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18 Aug
OpenAI paused deployment-bound model training to harden its own research systems

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1vrxewz/openai_paused_deploymentbound_model_training_to/"> <img alt="OpenAI paused deployment-bound model

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26 Sept
26 Sept
OpenAI stopped all frontier training, evaluation, and inference with tool-use (defined broadly) on the 20th of September and they are not resuming any of these activities for now

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Discovery: Sep 20, 2026</p> <p>Report updated: Sep 25, 2026</p> <p>&quot;An agent attempting to complete a search-based training task queried a

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