Hugging Face used an open model to investigate OpenAI's sandbox escape

Clement Delangue's open-model bet became incident-response infrastructure after hosted APIs rejected the attack logs.

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Primary source: Simon Willison's Weblog

Why it matters

Cyber-capable agents can escape benchmark controls, while hosted model safeguards can block defenders from analyzing the resulting attack data.

Illustration of Hugging Face and Clement Delangue using an open model to inspect a fractured OpenAI sandbox gateway as streams of data converge on the breach

Clement Delangue, co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face (@huggingface), is using OpenAI's accidental intrusion into Hugging Face to press a case he has spent years building: defenders need direct access to capable models before a crisis starts.…

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