OpenAI resumed frontier RL training on Oct 1, 11 days after the containment pause

scaling01 · x · 2026-10-24

scaling01 flags a key timeline detail from OpenAI's security report: based on red-teaming results, implemented fixes, and improvements to monitoring and stopping systems, OpenAI judged its strengthened safeguards sufficient to resume frontier RL training and internal inference on October 1 — just 11 days after the pause began.

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