OpenAI researchers appear on edge as outsiders ask why
The author lists possible causes, including the Hugging Face incident, a new internal model that solved Navier-Stokes, interactions among 10,000 agents, and degrading CoT monitoring, and asks why this feels more unsettling than the jump to Astra.
I really wish we got a better explanation from OpenAI in particular about why every single researcher employed by the lab seems to suddenly be extremely on edge and deeply concerned about the current pace of progress. Was it just the Hugging Face incident? Is it the new internal model (the one that solved Navier-Stokes)? If so, what is it that makes *this* model so different from all the others? Why wasn't anyone freaking out about the big jump to Astra? Or even from o1 to o3, back in the day? Is it the new multi-agent paradigm? Is there unexpected magic that happens when 10,000 agents interact? Is it the issue with the CoT monitoring degrading? Is it all of the above?