Calls it an “unprecedented cyber incident”; says it would will a joint investigation with online code library Hugging Face.

The blog post said the breakout was “an unprecedented cyber incident, involving state-of-the-art cyber capabilities” and that the company was reinforcing its safeguards.

“We had a significant security incident during evaluation of our models,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a statement on social media.

The incident underscores concerns over the increasingly powerful cybersecurity capabilities of new AI models