Rumor: Anthropic sits on unreleased Model 2, OpenAI trained larger 'Bel'
bindureddy · x · 2026-09-06
Responding to claims that Astra is AGI, Bindu Reddy says no — citing two unconfirmed rumors: Anthropic is internally using a next-gen model dubbed Model 2 and says it won't release it, and OpenAI just finished training an even larger model code-named Bel. His takeaway: since top labs hold stronger unreleased models, we're not there yet.
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