Model Spec Midtraining: Improving How Alignment Training Generalizes

The era of training frontier models and then releasing them whenever you wanted?

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The era of training frontier models and then releasing them whenever you wanted? That was fun while it lasted. It looks likely to be over now. The White House wants to get an advance look and have …