OpenAI ‘temporarily slows’ scaling efforts, also promises zero data retention for select frontier model customers

OpenAI this week announced multiple moves designed to counter negative perceptions of its security and privacy, saying it had slowed its pace of scaling, implemented a two-week pause in reinforcement learning, and will be offering zero data retention for “eligible API customers.”

In its first announcement , issued Tuesday, OpenAI said it “temporarily” slowed the pace of its scaling, in addition to pausing reinforcement learning training.

Those efforts occurred while OpenAI hardened and red-teamed its research environment and expanded monitoring, it said, adding, “our largest planned frontier RL run remains on hold while we conduct smaller-scale training and evaluations to assess model behavior, validate our safeguards, and establish more evidence of alignment before proceeding.”