OpenAI's GPT-6 (Codename 'Doug') Pretrain Reportedly Done, Rumored to Write Well
imjustnewatai · x · 2026-08-09
According to a SemiAnalysis report and podcast, OpenAI's model codenamed Doug is actually GPT-6.
The firm noted that OpenAI has overcome previous pretraining issues and completed the pretrain for this "much larger" model. Doug is rumored to be the first model capable of writing well.
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