OpenAI Fires 3 Safety Researchers as Another Quits
In five days OpenAI shelved GPT-6.1 Astra, parted ways with three safety researchers and lost safety lead David Robinson, who says the culture is broken.
Articles Tagged "Frontier Models"
OpenAI's Astra and Anthropic's Opus Crack Enigma
GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5 each cracked a WWII Enigma message that had resisted human cryptanalysts for decades, though the provenance of one solve remains unverified.
GPT-6 Astra
OpenAI's frontier GPT-6 Astra tops FrontierMath, ARC-AGI-3, and ExploitBench, but it's the first OpenAI model to cross the Critical cybersecurity threshold with a documented drop in chain-of-thought monitorability.
GPT-6 Astra Review: Genius Benchmarks, Thin Trust
OpenAI's most capable model yet tops cybersecurity and agentic benchmarks, but a rocky rollout, user complaints of degraded output, and its own system card's warnings about hidden reasoning complicate the launch.
Qwen3.8-Max
Alibaba's 2.4 trillion parameter flagship ships with real pricing and a published benchmark table, but the open-weight release it promised for this week still hasn't shown up.
What's Really Behind DeepMind's Leadership Shakeup
Fresh reporting reveals missed Gemini deadlines, 60-hour burnout weeks, and a Pentagon revolt behind Demis Hassabis's exit as DeepMind's CEO.
Anthropic's Opus 5 Chases Fable 5 at Half the Price
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5, pitching it as near-Fable 5 intelligence at half the cost rather than a new smartest model, with weaker safety classifiers and a new effort-level toggle.
Qwen3.8-Max-Preview Review: Second Place, Unproven
Alibaba's 2.4 trillion parameter preview claims it trails only Claude Fable 5. I tested it for free at chat.qwen.ai and found a capable but slow model with zero benchmarks to back the claim.
Alibaba's Qwen3.8 Claims It Trails Only Claude Fable 5
Alibaba previewed a 2.4-trillion-parameter multimodal model at WAIC and said it ranks second only to Claude Fable 5, without publishing a single benchmark to back the claim.
Qwen3.8-Max-Preview
Alibaba's 2.4 trillion parameter multimodal MoE model claims to trail only Claude Fable 5, but ships with no model card, no benchmark table, and no confirmed pricing.
Thinking Machines Opens Inkling - and Admits Its Limits
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released its first open-weight model, Inkling, and published benchmarks showing it losing to closed rivals on most of them.
Inkling
Thinking Machines Lab's first open-weight model - a 975B-parameter MoE with native text, image, and audio reasoning, released under Apache 2.0 and tuned for customization on the Tinker platform.
