After the drama, the real question: is OpenAI's 'internal model' already GPT-6.5 pretraining?

willdepue · x · 2026-09-09

OpenAI's Will Depue redirects attention from the settling drama to the more important question: what exactly is this 'internal model' that solved the Millennium Problem? His read: OpenAI likely has (1) already started astra-next / GPT-6.5 pretraining, and (2) it is already beating astra on evals.

Unverified speculation, but it suggests the scale and progress of OpenAI's internal models may far exceed public expectations.

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