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12 Days of OpenAI: o3 Preview, Deliberative Alignment, and Safety Researcher Access

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This OpenAI promotional page is notable for the safety-relevant announcements on Day 12, particularly deliberative alignment and early researcher access programs, which represent OpenAI's stated approach to safer deployment of frontier reasoning models like o3.

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OpenAI's '12 Days of OpenAI' event culminated with the o3 model preview and two key safety announcements: the introduction of 'deliberative alignment' for o-series models, and early access programs for safety and security researchers. The event also highlighted other major 2024 releases including Sora, ChatGPT Search, and various developer tools.

Key Points

  • Deliberative alignment is a new strategy where o-series models are directly taught safety specifications and trained to reason over them before responding.
  • OpenAI is offering safety and security researchers early access to frontier models for pre-deployment testing.
  • o3, OpenAI's next frontier reasoning model, was previewed on Day 12 of the event.
  • Other releases highlighted include Sora (video generation), ChatGPT Search, Reinforcement Fine-Tuning, and Canvas.
  • The event serves as a retrospective showcase of OpenAI's major product and safety-related releases in late 2024.

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Day 12

o3 preview & call for safety researchers

Deliberative alignment: reasoning enables safer language models

Introducing our new alignment strategy for o-series models, which are directly taught safety specifications and how to reason over them.

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Early access for safety testing

We're offering safety and security researchers early access to our next frontier models.

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Day 11

Work with apps

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Day 10

1-800-CHATGPT

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Day 9

Holiday treats for developers

OpenAI o1 and new tools for developers

Introducing OpenAI o1, Realtime API improvements, a new fine-tuning method and more for developers.

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Day 8

Search

ChatGPT search

Explore the potential of ChatGPT search, a speedy and timely way to get answers from relevant web sources that debuted in October 2024.

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Day 7

Projects in ChatGPT

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Advanced voice with video & Santa mode

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Day 5

ChatGPT in Apple Intelligence

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Day 4

Canvas

Canvas

Discover all the possibilities of canvas, an interface for writing and coding in collaboration with C

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