OpenAI Finishes 10T Parameter 'Bel' Pretrain, Anthropic Faces Compute Constraints
ivan_bezdomny · x · 2026-08-26
Reports suggest OpenAI has finished training "Bel," a massive successor to "Doug" with over 10 trillion total parameters, expected to serve as the base for GPT-6. OpenAI believes Anthropic lacks the compute to answer the upcoming Astra launch this year, giving OpenAI a significant lead for the rest of 2026.
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