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Investing.com-- OpenAI has slashed the amount of time and resources spent on testing the safety of its artificial intelligence models, raising some concerns over proper guardrails for its technology, the Financial Times reported on Friday.
Staff and groups that assess risks and performance of OpenAI’s models were recently given just days to conduct evaluations, the FT report said, citing eight people familiar with the matter.
The start-up’s testing processes have become less thorough with fewer resources and less time dedicated towards mitigating risks, the FT report said.
The report comes as OpenAI races to release updated AI models and maintain its competitive edge, especially amid heightened competition from new Chinese entrants such as DeepSeek.
OpenAI is gearing up to release its new o3 model by next week, although no release data has been determined. But this rush to release updated models is potentially compromising the firm’s safety checks.
Still, reports of lower safety testing times also come amid a shift in AI towards inference- ie the processing and generation of novel data- from training, which uses existing data to improve the capabilities of an AI model.
OpenAI said earlier in April that it had raised $40 billion in a funding round led by Japan's SoftBank Group Corp. (TYO:9984), which valued the company at $300 billion.