Not looking good for a soon GPT-Astra-release: OpenAI paused reinforcement learning on its latest deployment models for two weeks, and its largest planned frontier RL run remains on hold.

The company is running smaller-scale training and evaluations while it tests model behavior, safeguards, and evidence of alignment.

The decision follows preliminary findings that its upcoming Astra model may have reached OpenAI's "Critical" cybersecurity threshold, alongside the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident.

"While some Astra training and evaluations meet those requirements, a significant number of workloads remain paused until they are fully migrated and enhanced to meet the new security bar"

Dont think Astra will be released any time soon. The question is: will china catch up in the meantime?