Leaker Claims OpenAI's Next Big Pretraining Run Is Codenamed 'Bel'
ChrisGPT · x · 2026-08-26
ChrisGPT, an X account claiming to have first broken the story, says OpenAI's next major pretraining run is codenamed Bel — a "monster" model positioned as a fable killer, expected by year-end or a couple of months after Astra. The account says it had the codename six days before it circulated, but is unsure where the run sits in training and what post-training looks like, so declines to overstate the model's current state. Unverified — treat with caution.
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