Google's 3.8 announcement links back to 3.7 and describes a shared release family. It also says 3.7 remains supported for workloads that prioritize efficiency.
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Gemini 3.7 Flash, which remains fully supported for efficiency-first workloads.
What changed between a training pause and release preparation?
OpenAI connects its training decisions to safeguards. That is an attributed company explanation, not an independent finding of safety.
2026-09-01 / Retrospective company statement
Certain training runs were paused
In its September statement, OpenAI describes an earlier two-week pause in certain frontier training after the Hugging Face incident. It says Astra was not involved in that incident.
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While Astra was not involved in the Hugging Face incident
2026-08-28 / Event date reported in September statement
OpenAI reports restarting one large run
The same statement says a paused large reinforcement-learning run restarted on August 28 after new safety requirements were put in place. Other experimental work remained on hold.
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after the new safety and security requirements were put in place
The report describes 460 megawatts in the first building of a planned campus, aiming to come online the following year. A reported commitment is not evidence that this capacity has been delivered.