Will DeGue: next model after Astra could skip to GPT-7
willdepue · x · 2026-09-05
Will DeGue says that given the rate of internal acceleration at frontier labs, there's a small but real chance the model after Astra skips GPT-6.5 entirely and is named GPT-7, hinting the pace of capability jumps may exceed outside expectations.
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