OpenAI's new model, in training since Aug 28, reportedly beat GPT-6-Astra in just one week
alexcovo_eth · x · 2026-09-10
Citing OpenAI's blog post, kimmonismus notes the company began training a new internal model on August 28 that shows "unprecedented performance" on benchmarks including math, with training still ongoing. He stresses it took only 7 days to fully outperform OpenAI's best model, GPT-6-Astra-xhigh — arguing people haven't grasped what OpenAI actually announced. Unofficial third-party reading; details unconfirmed.
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