Miles Brundage asks if GPT-6 is the public name and Astra the insider codename
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-09-06
Former OpenAI policy chief Miles Brundage flagged a naming puzzle: people online keep saying GPT-6, yet the name appears in only one OpenAI product surface — the Chat interface. He speculates that GPT-6 may be the normie-facing term while Astra is the AI-nerd codename for the same model, and asks the community for clarification. The post highlights a possible dual-naming scheme at OpenAI, though nothing official has been confirmed.
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