GPT-7 (2026)

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Summary

Organization OpenAI
Model name GPT-7
Internal/project name
Model type Multimodal
Parameter count Trillions of parameters
Dataset size (tokens) Quadrillions of tokens
Training data end date 2026 (est) + Real-time learning
Training start date 2026 (est)
Training end/convergence date 2026 (est)
Training time (total) GB200s, over 2M chips installed in Stargate…
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Release date (public) 2026
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Scaling reinforcement learning (May/2025)

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GPT-7 Updates

Sep/2025: OpenAI CEO to British physicist David Deutsch at the 2025 Axel Springer Award (24/Sep/2025):

Sam: “Einstein and general relativity… I think that’s one of the most beautiful things humanity has ever figured out. Maybe I would even say number one. And Einstein had a story, we knew what he was working on. If in a few years GPT-8 figured out quantum gravity and could tell you its story of how it did it and the problems that it was thinking about and why it decided to work on that, but it still just looked like a language model output, but it really did solve it, would you call… like, then would you (I appreciate that you keep a list of things you were wrong about. I do too!) Would that be enough to convince you?”

David: “I think it would, yes. It’s crucial here.”

Sam: “All right. I’ll take you up on that. I agree to that as the test.”

Jul/2025: OpenAI CEO to the US Federal Reserve (22/Jul/2025):

“What if AI gets so smart that the President of the United States can’t do better than following ChatGPT-7’s recommendation, but can’t really understand it either? What if I can’t make any better decision about how to run OpenAI, and I just say, ‘You know what? I fully hand it over. ChatGPT-7, you’re in charge. Good luck.’ That might be the right decision in any individual case. But it means that society has collectively transitioned a significant part of decision-making to this very powerful system that’s learning from us, improving with us, evolving with us, but in ways we don’t totally understand.”

Jul/2025: Stargate advances:

“Together with our Stargate I site in Abilene, Texas, this additional partnership with Oracle will bring us to over 5 gigawatts of Stargate AI data center capacity under development, which will run over 2 million chips… Oracle began delivering the first Nvidia GB200 racks last month [Jun/2025] and we recently began running early training and inference workloads, using this capacity to push the limits of OpenAI’s next-generation frontier research.” (OpenAI, 22/Jul/2025)

Apr/2025: Former OpenAI model architecture and training engineer (Oct/2024–Apr/2025), Rohan Pandey, reveals:

At OpenAI, I helped train GPT-5 and future models. (link, archive)

Feb/2025: GPUs shipped.

Feb/2025: OpenAI Stargate potential datacentre locations.

Models Table

Summary of current models: View the full data (Google sheets)

Dataset

A Comprehensive Analysis of Datasets Likely Used to Train GPT-5

Alan D. Thompson
LifeArchitect.ai
August 2024
27 pages incl title page, references, appendices.

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Timeline to GPT-7

Date Milestone
11/Jun/2018 GPT-1 announced on the OpenAI blog.
14/Feb/2019 GPT-2 announced on the OpenAI blog.
28/May/2020 GPT-3 preprint paper published to arXiv.
11/Jun/2020 GPT-3 API private beta.
22/Sep/2020 GPT-3 licensed exclusively to Microsoft.
18/Nov/2021 GPT-3 API opened to the public.
27/Jan/2022 InstructGPT released as text-davinci-002, later known as GPT-3.5. InstructGPT preprint paper Mar/2022.
28/Jul/2022 Exploring data-optimal models with FIM, paper on arXiv.
Aug/2022 GPT-4 finished training, available in lab.
1/Sep/2022 GPT-3 model pricing cut by 66% for davinci model.
21/Sep/2022 Whisper (speech recognition) announced on the OpenAI blog.
28/Nov/2022 GPT-3.5 expanded to text-davinci-003, announced via email:
1. Higher quality writing.
2. Handles more complex instructions.
3. Better at longer form content generation.
30/Nov/2022 ChatGPT announced on the OpenAI blog.
14/Mar/2023 GPT-4 released.
31/May/2023 GPT-4 MathMix and step by step, paper on arXiv.
6/Jul/2023 GPT-4 available via API.
25/Sep/2023 GPT-4V released.
13/May/2024 GPT-4o announced.
18/Jul/2024 GPT-4o mini announced.
12/Sep/2024 o1 released.
20/Dec/2024 o3 announced.
27/Feb/2025 GPT-4.5 released.
14/Apr/2025 GPT-4.1 released.
16/Apr/2025 o3 released.
16/Apr/2025 o4-mini released.
5/Aug/2025 gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b released.
7/Aug/2025 GPT-5 released.
12/Nov/2025 GPT-5.1 released.
2026 GPT-6 due…
2026 GPT-7 due…

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