OpenAI Engineer Sees Chance of Jump to GPT-7

Will Depue, an AI engineer who worked at OpenAI on Sora and o-series models, posted that internal acceleration at frontier labs creates a small but real chance the model after Astra will skip GPT-6.5 and be called GPT-7 instead. The comment stands as his personal assessment of naming patterns inside leading labs. No other details or confirmations appear in the post.