OpenAI May Already Be Pretraining GPT-6.5 That Beats Astra on Evals
willdepue · x · 2026-09-09
willdepue parses OpenAI's wording that its Navier-Stokes agents used a model "significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra" and concludes:
- OpenAI has likely already started astra-next / GPT-6.5 pretraining
- It is already beating Astra on evals
- Suggests OpenAI's model cadence is far ahead of public expectations.
Related event: Report: OpenAI Training New Model That Beats Its Own GPT-6 Astra(4 posts)→
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