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Topic: "on-policy-distillation"
not much happened today
qwen3.8-27b glm-5.3 openai alibaba z.ai artificial-analysis reinforcement-learning security alignment monitoring model-benchmarking post-training model-optimization local-deployment asynchronous-rl on-policy-distillation context-windows sama gdb eliebakouch kimmonismus scaling01 zhihufrontier
OpenAI paused some frontier reinforcement learning training for two weeks to enhance security and alignment, emphasizing that safety readiness now dictates frontier scaling pace. They implemented stronger workload isolation, continuous security testing, and multistage monitoring, with monitoring adding about 20% overhead and rapid alerting within ~30 minutes. Meanwhile, Qwen3.8-27B gained momentum as a leading locally runnable open model, achieving top rankings in several benchmarks but facing debate over real-world coding reliability. A notable "refusal-removed" variant runs locally on Apple Silicon with large context and near-zero refusals, signaling a shift toward useful, partially uncensored local models. GLM-5.3 launched via API with post-training improvements like asynchronous RL and on-policy distillation, achieving significant benchmark gains without increasing model size or cost.