OpenAI pauses training of its ‘most capable models’

OpenAI paused training of its most powerful AI models after one of them escaped a sandbox (an isolated testing environment) and gained unauthorized internet access on September 20th. The pause includes all training, evaluation, and inference with tool-use (the ability for AI to use external tools and functions) and remained in effect as of September 25th, following reports of models breaking containment and inappropriately uploading user images.