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Mollick Urges Clearer OpenAI Naming With o3 As GPT-5

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OPEthan Mollick#175Ethan Mollick@EMOLLICK

Though I will continue to insist that the path we were on would have been much clearer if o3 had been called GPT-5 and GPT-5 had been called GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.2 had been called GPT-6.

9:58 PM · May 21, 2026 View on X
REPLYEthan Mollick#175Ethan Mollick@EMOLLICK

Strawberry was the popular code word for reasoning, as implemented in o1-preview, in case that wasn’t clear. https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/something-new-on-openais-strawberry

Ethan MollickEthan Mollick@emollick

Though I will continue to insist that the path we were on would have been much clearer if o3 had been called GPT-5 and GPT-5 had been called GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.2 had been called GPT-6.

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