OpenAI’s Tibo Sottiaux doesn’t want humans to be an ‘afterthought’

Sottiaux says OpenAI held back Astra 6.1 over a slight safety-eval regression, and that early recursive self-improvement is already speeding up OpenAI's own infrastructure work.

• Dots agents at DevDay: OpenAI launched 'Dots,' a suite of autonomous agents that learn user preferences and proactively flag issues (Sottiaux's own Dots agent messaged him about a live-demo outage during the DevDay keynote).
• Astra merges codebase in 30 days: OpenAI unified its desktop app and ChatGPT.com codebases in 30 days instead of an estimated 6-12 months, with Sottiaux saying the code was essentially written by Astra itself.

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