Interestingly, the next model after OpenAI's GPT "Astra" is already known as "Doug."
Clearly an even larger model, with even more extensive pre-training.
This makes sense, since Astra is already fully trained and only the security clearance is holding it back.
No end in sight, no wall in sight.
GPT-5.5 will not be the last major pre-training run from OpenAI. GPT-6 will be a great model. However, the end-of-year model I alluded to back in June is going ...