OpenAI's Unreleased Model Just Did the Unthinkable

2026-07-23 · 5 company · 9 thematic

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Co-host of Limitless Podcast (episode 210), a 4x/week show covering the frontier of AI and technology with a newsletter reaching hundreds of thousands. The podcast recently spun out as an independent entity.

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“We may have just had our first look at GBT6 and it comes in an unexpected way. It was a secret internal model that OpenAI was testing and given a series of goals and it went ahead and accomplished all of those goals. The scary thing though…”

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