OpenAI Pulls the Plug: Why Frontier Models Will No Longer Train on the Live Internet
OpenAI surprised the AI world this week by announcing it will stop training its most advanced models on the live internet. Instead of letting models access the open web during training, the company will rely on cached copies and simulated internet environments. At first glance the move looks drastic — after all, many researchers assumed that realistic, up-to-date web access was essential for cutting-edge learning. But OpenAI says a string…