Checked fact 452911 Nov 2026Safety and security
OpenAI says the termination mechanism is implemented in the inference layer, because there are only a very small number of inference code paths across OpenAI research and workload code changes often.
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We achieve this by implementing the termination mechanism in the inference layer.
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Control Room: A central system to track and stop model workloads across our research infrastructure
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OpenAI says its Control Room can stop a research job's model output within 35 seconds 11 Nov 2026
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