alt Hacker News> We already know OpenAI has "bel" that is MUCH better than astra and is being used internally
You're just believing their own bullshit. There's no indication that this is true except from claims from people working at OpenAI.
If they really had a much more powerful model, it would make absolutely no sense to sit on it.
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You don't think having a more intelligent model they can use internally that others can't is an advantage?
With all due respect, you do not have a single clue what you're talking about.
It makes sense for them to sit on it until they've finished testing it. More powerful but also more likely to delete all your email by mistake = you shouldn't release it yet.
> If they really had a much more powerful model, it would make absolutely no sense to sit on it.
Makes total sense if they don't have the compute and can't serve it in an economically viable way. Also it lets you build things no one else in the world can build as fast as you until it's released
its not done training, why would they release a model that hasn't finished training?
besides, we know anthropic are sitting on models too
> it would make absolutely no sense to sit on it.
Yeah, it does, it might be misaligned, a snapshot of the going on training, bigger than they can serve publicly, not yet completed the full training pipeline.
If you see the knowledge cutoff you can see that sol 5.6 finished the initial main (+stage edited) of the training pipeline on Feb 16, 2026 but it was publicly released on July 9.
The opposite would be weird: if they do NOT have an unreleased in-house model that would be really odd.