Summary
Altman said OpenAI agreed that independent evaluators should receive employee-like access and that OpenAI would do the same. He described pacing frontier development as a major topic of recent internal discussions.
Why it matters
A matching commitment from OpenAI makes embedded external evaluation a potential industry norm rather than a single-lab experiment.
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