Rumor: OpenAI paused frontier RL over safety, pivoting to smaller cheaper models
haider1 · x · 2026-10-26
Blogger haider1 observes that OpenAI reportedly paused frontier RL over safety concerns and shelved 6.1 Astra right before DevDay, shifting toward smaller, cheaper models — 6.1 Sol is out and 6.1 Terra expected next week. Meanwhile Anthropic is shipping fast, with nearly its entire 5.5 family released and Fable 5.5 coming. The author speculates OpenAI may be reallocating compute internally for something bigger. All unverified.
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