Altman: new model crushed researchers' hardest career problems, gave him 'a feeling of something ending'
ChrisGPT · x · 2026-10-30
Sam Altman says OpenAI employees created an internal channel called "Model Name - Hold My Beer" to test a new model on the hardest problems from their research careers. "The model was just knocking down one after the other." Watching it gave him "a feeling of something ending," though he believes the progress is right for the world and shouldn't be stopped.
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