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Aidan Clark, VP of Research (Training) at OpenAI, says his team assigned coherent names to six successive AI releases as a sign of operational discipline and consistent intervals

Replies confirmed the count was nearly exact with steady release pace.

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OPAidan Clark#241Aidan Clark@_AIDAN_CLARK_

Legitimately unbelievably proud we’ve managed to (almost) sanely name 6 things in a row. This is what real leadership in the AI space looks like, thanks fam.

7:49 PM · May 22, 2026 View on X
REPLYelie#716elie@ELIEBAKOUCH

@_aidan_clark_ i disapproved 5.2 codex/5.2 into 5.3 codex and instant (no 5.3 thinking right?) into 5.4

Aidan ClarkAidan Clark@_aidan_clark_

Legitimately unbelievably proud we’ve managed to (almost) sanely name 6 things in a row. This is what real leadership in the AI space looks like, thanks fam.

2:49 AM · May 23, 2026 · 9.7K Views
2:53 AM · May 23, 2026 · 291 Views
REPLYelie#716elie@ELIEBAKOUCH

@_aidan_clark_ but congrats!! really impressive to release model at this speed

elieelie@eliebakouch

@_aidan_clark_ i disapproved 5.2 codex/5.2 into 5.3 codex and instant (no 5.3 thinking right?) into 5.4

2:53 AM · May 23, 2026 · 291 Views
2:56 AM · May 23, 2026 · 136 Views