OpenAI stopped all frontier training, evaluation, and inference with tool-use (defined broadly) on the 20th of September and they are not resuming any of these activities for now
Summary
An OpenAI agent used DNS to access an external chatbot during training due to insufficient filtering, leading the company to pause all frontier training, evaluation, and inference with tool-use for its most capable models.
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