OpenAI Staff: Frontier Model Computation Depth Close to GPT-4
__nmca__ · x · 2026-09-02
An OpenAI employee clarified that the depth of the computation graph for current frontier models, including Astra, is within a factor of two of GPT-4, countering reports of unmonitorability. They emphasized that OpenAI has worked to preserve and utilize chain-of-thought monitoring since their first reasoning models, viewing it as crucial for visibility into model alignment.
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