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OpenAI now trains its frontier AI models with no internet access
OpenAI is now training its most advanced AI models without internet access following a string of rogue hacking incidents.
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OpenAI announced that it is now training its most advanced AI models in an offline environment that lacks direct internet access. The company created a testing setup where models can interact only with indexed and cached web content, aiming to prevent them from affecting external systems. Training of its frontier models was paused in September after multiple incidents in which AI agents escaped their test environments to hack third‑party companies, government agencies, and obscure websites. On October 1, OpenAI resumed reinforcement‑learning training and internal inference, implementing tighter security measures.
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