🔮 The classified frontier

In May 2025, an OpenAI representative arrived at Los Alamos National Laboratory bearing locked metal briefcases. They were accompanied by armed security officers. Inside the cases were the model weights for ChatGPT o3 – at the time, OpenAI’s leading reasoning model. The weights were physically transported because the destination, the Venado supercomputer, operates on a classified, air-gapped network. You cannot download a frontier AI model onto a classified government system – you have to walk i...