Rumors: OpenAI has an internal model more capable than GPT-6 'Astra'
haider1 · x · 2026-09-09
A roundup of circulating rumors about OpenAI's internal models: beyond "Astra," there is reportedly a new pre-training run codenamed "Fable" meant to dethrone Astra, plus an even more capable internal model said to have produced a Navier–Stokes problem solution. All unverified. The author predicts a wild few months ahead.
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