OpenAI's future model 'Bel' reportedly finishes pretraining in August
OpenAI has run unusually heavy pretraining since late 2025; a leak claims Sol finished in March, Astra in April/May, and the mysterious long-term model 'Bel' completed pretraining in August.
2026-08-28 ~ 2026-08-29 · 2 related posts
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- OpenAI reportedly running many pre-trains; far-future model codenamed 'Bel' — haider1 · 2026-08-28
- Rumor: OpenAI's "Bel" model finished pre-training in August — haider1 · 2026-08-29