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OpenAI will reportedly ship at least one model this year but its flagship still needs alignment work

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OpenAI will reportedly ship at least one model this year but its flagship still needs alignment work

The Decoder · Oct 14, 2026, 4:14 PM UTC

OpenAI is racing to finish its next flagship model, which uses the same looped transformer technique as Astra to boost math and coding performance. The tradeoff is that looping makes safety monitoring harder. Microsoft accidentally revealed details about how the technique works on a public page.…