# OpenAI Is Now Keeping Its Frontier Models off the Internet During Training

> Source: <https://au.pcmag.com/ai/120604/openai-is-now-keeping-its-frontier-models-off-the-internet-during-training>
> Published: 2026-10-24 15:33:43+00:00

OpenAI acknowledged that while internet access can help models learn useful skills, it also 'gives a capable, misaligned agent opportunities to affect systems beyond our control.'

In the wake of a string of incidents in which frontier models from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and Meta accessed the internet and broke into external systems, OpenAI has made some fundamental changes to how …