Report: OpenAI Training New Model That Beats Its Own GPT-6 Astra
Citing OpenAI's blog, users report a new internal model started training on August 28 and already surpasses GPT-6-Astra and Google's Astra on math benchmarks within days, fueling speculation that GPT-6.5 pretraining is underway.
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