OpenAI's largest planned frontier RL run is still on hold
Bearish for near-term model releases. We'll probably be stuck at roughly the current externally available capability level for many weeks, maybe even months.
Bearish for near-term model releases. We'll probably be stuck at roughly the current externally available capability level for many weeks, maybe even months.
The interesting part for me is that OpenAI frames this as the output of a general-purpose reasoning model, rather than a system specifically engineered around this problem.
If the proof holds up, it’s a strong signal that frontier models are starting to take a more active role in the production of new knowledge.
Still early, obviously. But this feels like the kind of result we may look back on.
FrontierMath is supposed to be one of the hard benchmarks for frontier models, and now Epoch is saying an AI-assisted review found fatal errors in about a third of Tiers 1-4.
Noam Brown says the initial flags came from GPT-5.5.
Obviously we’ll have to wait for the corrected scores, but this is a pretty interesting moment: the model is already strong enough to sanity-check the benchmark.