
GPT-6 is expected to launch as early as April 2026*— just weeks after completing pre-training on March 24 at OpenAI’s Stargate supercluster in Abilene, Texas. Internally codenamed “Spud,” this next-generation frontier model was developed in secret for roughly two years and is poised to deliver massive leaps in reasoning, multimodality, and real-world utility.

The AI world is buzzing: OpenAI is actively developing the successor to GPT-5 (often referred to in press and social posts as “GPT-6” or jokingly “GPT-6-7”),