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prinz [verified] @deredleritt3r · 11h I really wish we got a better explanation from OpenAI in particular about why every single researcher employed by the lab seems to suddenly be extremely on edge and deeply concerned about the current pace of progress. Was it just the Hugging Face incident? Is it the new internal model (the one that solved Navier-Stokes)? If so, what is it that makes *this* model so different from all the others? Why wasn't anyone freaking out about the big jump to Astra? Or even from o1 to o3, back in the day? Is it the new multi-agent paradigm? Is there unexpected magic that happens when 10,000 agents interact? Is it the issue with the CoT monitoring degrading? Is it all of the above? 91 replies 45 reposts 850 likes 53K views [reply] Noam Brown [verified] @polynoamial It's not a secret. It's a combination of the HF incident, the capabilities of this new model, the concerning trajectory of monitorability, and the speed of improvement in capabilities. [quoted post] OpenAI [verified] @OpenAI · Sep 8 Replying to @OpenAI This model represents a step-function improvement on many benchmarks, and its training is ongoing. Our internal model group arrived at the Navier–Stokes ... [cut off] [embedded chart, partly covered by the app nav bar, with a caption fragment:] Performance of GPT-6 Astra and our Internal Model on a curated set of open math problems
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Thread screenshot on X: prinz (@deredleritt3r) asks why OpenAI researchers seem suddenly alarmed (HF incident, new internal model that solved Navier-Stokes, multi-agent paradigm, degrading CoT monitoring); Noam Brown replies it is a combination of the HF incident, the new model's capabilities, the trajectory of monitorability and speed of capability improvement; his reply quotes an @OpenAI post of Sep 8 about a step-function improvement and an internal model group. Bottom is covered by the nav bar and a floating button, with a chart image barely visible.
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