OpenAI finishes >10T param pretrain 'Bel', claims AGI potential
scaling01 · x · 2026-08-26
- Scoop: OpenAI finished pretraining "Bel", the successor to "Doug", with >10T total parameters, similar in size to GPT-4.5.
- Positioning: Expected to be the base for Astra and GPT-6. OpenAI believes it could be a post-GPT-6 base or even an AGI-threshold model.
- Competition: OpenAI assesses that Anthropic lacks a strong public response to Astra due to compute constraints. Anthropic expects OpenAI to dominate the rest of the year but plans to return to form early next year.
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