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GPT-6 Cyber just dropped: the radar detected it and fired the launch alert at 17:09 UTC on Nov 5, 2026. No date is confirmed. Polymarket prices GPT Astra 6.1 or later at 50% by Nov 12 and 97% by Dec 31. The latest OpenAI release was GPT Image 2.6 on Nov 4, 2026.

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Every unreleased OpenAI model on the board, swept every 60 seconds. Odds are live Polymarket prices where a market exists: sentiment, not a promise.

• GPT-6.150% by Nov 12 · 97% by Dec 31 · market: GPT Astra 6.1 or later
  SCRAPPED per the WSJ (Sep 28): OpenAI pulled its planned October release after the model fell short in internal alignment tests and showed more deception than GPT-6 (safety head Saachi Jain on record) · still armed, since a shelved id can come back · Kalshi runs a market on 'Astra 6.1'
• GPT-5.6 Zinc / Magnesium
  Codenames sighted disabled in DesignArena — Zinc rumored an upgraded Sol, Magnesium a Terra replacement
• GPT-6.2
  Not announced — no OpenAI word or date · Nov 5 02:23 UTC: @Mr_Salio says both ids have since been removed from the quota page; we could not check that either · Nov 7: Friday, Nov 6, passed without a new Astra or Sol; OpenAI's launch that week was GPT-6 Cyber (Nov 5, to approved Daybreak Red customers only) · no gpt-6.2 id on OpenRouter (its newest OpenAI ids are GPT-6.1 Terra and Terra Pro, Oct 26) or models.dev · Polymarket's 'When will GPT Astra 6.1+ be released?' market, which a GPT-6.2 Astra would also settle, last traded at 56% for Nov 9 to 15 and 2% for this week, and its 'Next GPT Sol (6.2+)' market at 65% by Nov 15

  Earlier reports (10)

  Oct 29: one X account (@Josh67Joshua) said OpenAI's Bel codename is short for 'GPT-6.2 Betelgeuse' · Oct 29: a second account (@taker_of_whizz) posted a tracker screenshot listing gpt-6.2-betelgeuse as INTERNAL; both unconfirmed, and OpenAI has named neither · Nov 1: @TokenGremlin, @Mr_Salio and @LuminaBench posted screenshots of a gpt-6.2-astra id in Codex usage data and responses (picker still says GPT-6 Astra); unverified, none in OpenRouter or models.dev · Nov 1 19:28 UTC: our own `codex --model gpt-6.2-astra` on a ChatGPT account returned 400 model_not_found ('not supported when using Codex with a ChatGPT account'), despite posts claiming it runs in the CLI · Nov 3: @hakmgpt, @kimmonismus, @Mr_Salio and @LuminaBench say ChatGPT's GPT-6 Astra is routing some users to GPT-6.2 and posted sample outputs; unconfirmed, OpenAI has said nothing and no gpt-6.2 id is in OpenRouter or models.dev · Nov 3 later: @LuminaBench called the circulating GPT-6.2 Astra demos fake, and @Mr_Salio apologized, saying the SVG clip he posted had been enhanced beyond the model's original output; treat the samples as unreliable · Nov 3: two OpenAI API ids, rc-ada-or-vm and rc-ada-sh-vm, sat on OpenAI's model list from about 18:41 to 18:46 UTC (github.com/spullara/models history; our radar saw both, @LuminaBench flagged them); what they are is unknown, and nothing ties them to GPT-6.2 · Nov 3: OpenAI's own blog scored an unnamed 'newer internal model' at 0.875 on its BenchCAD 2.0 test against 0.594 for GPT-6 Astra; OpenAI did not call it GPT-6.2 · Nov 4: The Information reported that new OpenAI models could come as soon as Friday, Nov 6, including the next generation of its Astra, Sol and cyber-focused models, citing people with knowledge of them; OpenAI has not confirmed, The Information did not use the GPT-6.2 name, and no gpt-6.2 id is in OpenRouter or models.dev (16:31 UTC) · Nov 4 23:28 UTC: @lyraxana and, 16 seconds later, @AiBattle_ posted screenshots of Google Cloud's quota page listing base_model values gpt-6.2-astra and gpt-6.2-sol, and @AiBattle_ says a release is likely Nov 5; screenshots only, we could not read the page ourselves, and OpenAI has not announced either
• GPT-6.5
  Not announced — no OpenAI word or date · Nov 4: OpenAI's API changelog (newest entry: GPT-6 Rosalind, Oct 30) and OpenRouter's catalog list no gpt-6.5 id · OpenAI's Nov 3 blog scored an unnamed 'newer internal model' above GPT-6 Astra on its BenchCAD 2.0 test without naming it; that signal is tracked on the GPT-6.2 page · Nov 7: OpenAI's API changelog still has no gpt-6.5 id; its newest entries are GPT-6 Cyber (Nov 5, for approved Daybreak customers) and two image models (Nov 4) · OpenRouter's newest OpenAI ids are still GPT-6.1 Terra and Terra Pro (Oct 26), and models.dev lists no gpt-6.5 either · OpenAI's next dated event is its 'Cyber at the Frontier' livestream on Nov 12 at 10am PT

  Earlier reports (3)

  Oct 19: Tibo Sottiaux, who works on Codex and ChatGPT at OpenAI, posted that he had bought a new domain and was 'very excited for it', without naming it (his X post); X users tied it to opensi.lol · our read of opensi.lol: registered Sep 22, and the Sep 23 web archive copy calls it 'an independent parody' of OpenAI with the domain for sale; the Oct 19 copy is a paid message board that quotes Tibo's post and hides a '6.5' tag next to a countdown to Nov 1, 10 a.m. Pacific · Oct 28: Tibo's next domain post was 'poteto.com has landed', a potato game (his X post); neither he nor OpenAI has tied him to opensi.lol · Nov 1: the countdown ran out with no GPT-6.5; opensi.lol now shows a single video
• GPT-6o
  Unannounced · a DevDay reveal was speculated by one X account (Sep 29); DevDay came and went without one, and no gpt-6o id is among the 469 our sweep has on record · still armed so a gpt-6o id alerts instead of filing under GPT-6 Astra
• GPT-7
  Not announced — no OpenAI word or date · Kalshi (read Oct 8): 12% before March 2027, 35% before June, 60% before September, 81% before 2028
• Next GPT Sol (6.2+ / 7)
  Unannounced — armed on the cadence the moment GPT-6.1 Sol shipped, not on a leak · Nov 7: Friday, Nov 6, the soonest date The Information gave, passed without a new Sol or Astra; OpenAI's launch that week was GPT-6 Cyber (Nov 5, to approved Daybreak Red customers only), and its Nov 6 posts were a wet-lab benchmark (BioBasicsBench) and a safeguards framework with the Frontier Model Forum · OpenRouter's newest OpenAI ids are still GPT-6.1 Terra and Terra Pro (Oct 26), and neither OpenRouter nor models.dev lists a gpt-6.2 id · OpenAI has a 'Cyber at the Frontier' livestream on Nov 12 at 10am PT, billed for more cyber announcements · Nov 8: @Mr_Salio and @kimmonismus say GPT-6.1 Sol in ChatGPT now routes some requests to a newer model they take for GPT-6.2 Sol, judging by their own test outputs; unconfirmed, and OpenAI's ChatGPT and model release notes (read Nov 9) say nothing about it · Polymarket's 'Next GPT Sol (6.2+)' market last traded at 65% by Nov 15, 79% by Nov 30 and 98% by Dec 31

  Earlier reports (4)

  Nov 3: no GPT-6.2 Sol id has turned up in any catalog our radar sweeps (this hunt has not fired), and OpenAI has said nothing about one · the GPT-6.2 signals so far name other lines, all unconfirmed: a 'GPT-6.2 Betelgeuse' codename (Oct 29) and a gpt-6.2-astra id in Codex usage screenshots (Nov 1) · OpenAI's Nov 3 blog scored an unnamed 'newer internal model' at 0.875 on its BenchCAD 2.0 test against 0.594 for GPT-6 Astra, without calling it GPT-6.2 · those signals are tracked on the GPT-6.2 page · Nov 4: The Information reported a next-generation Sol could come as soon as Friday, Nov 6, alongside new Astra and cyber models (people with knowledge of them); OpenAI has not confirmed · Nov 4 23:28 UTC: @lyraxana and @AiBattle_ posted screenshots of Google Cloud's quota page listing a gpt-6.2-sol base_model value beside gpt-6.2-astra; screenshots only, unconfirmed, and OpenAI has not announced it · Nov 5 02:23 UTC: @Mr_Salio says both ids have since been removed from the quota page; we could not check that either
• OpenAI Bel
  Codename, not announced · an X leak (@synthwavedd, late Aug) said OpenAI had finished pretraining a model called Bel with over 10T parameters; OpenAI has never named it and no benchmark exists · on Oct 10 @kimmonismus, citing dinner talk, said Bel would overtake Anthropic by year end · on Oct 29 another account (@Josh67Joshua) said Bel is short for GPT-6.2 Betelgeuse, unconfirmed · it may ship under another name, such as GPT-6.2, GPT-6.5 or GPT-7
• GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast
  Limited preview Aug 13 — select customers only, no public price; watching for general availability
• GPT-6 Astra Light
  Rumored · one X account (Mr_Salio, Oct 6) says OpenAI is preparing a lighter Astra; no evidence shown, no OpenAI word
• Next GPT Cyber (6.1+)
  Unannounced — armed Nov 8 on the cadence after GPT-6 Cyber (Nov 5, to approved Daybreak Red customers only), not on a leak · no versioned GPT cyber id is in any catalog our radar sweeps · OpenAI's 'Cyber at the Frontier' livestream on Nov 12 at 10am PT is billed for more cyber announcements (OpenAI's post, Nov 5) · alerts the cyber stream only, like GPT-6 Cyber: a gated cyber model is not news to default subscribers
• Next GPT Image (2.7 / 3)
  Unannounced — armed on the cadence the moment Images 2.6 shipped (Nov 4), not on a leak · OpenAI's current image model is GPT Image 2.6 (Flare and Sunburst)
• Next GPT Terra (6.2+)
  Unannounced — armed on the cadence the moment GPT-6.1 Terra shipped, not on a leak
• o4
  No date · OpenAI never shipped a full o4; o4-mini's API shut down Oct 23 (its replacement: GPT-5.6 Terra)
• OpenAI Aurora Alpha
  Unannounced · Oct 18: three ids, aurora-red-alpha, aurora-green-alpha and aurora-blue-alpha, were reported in OpenAI's API by @scaling01 at 02:59 UTC and gone again by 08:49, per the same account · a model-tracker bot's alert, shared on X, shows the ids added and test calls failing (503 'no available capacity' on red, 404 on green and blue) · at 09:26 @LuminaBench posted Arena screenshots of aurora-red-alpha and aurora-green-alpha returning images, so these look like image models in testing · at 10:18 @Mr_Salio said all three are being tested on Design Arena, and at 10:31 @LuminaBench called it 'probably GPT Image 3', with red faster but lower quality and green slower and better · Design Arena's public leaderboard did not list them when we checked at 10:50 · not verified by us, and OpenAI has said nothing · not on OpenRouter or models.dev when we checked
• Sora 3
  Not announced — no OpenAI word or date · Sora 2 is OpenAI's current video model

Latest OpenAI releases

• GPT Image 2.6Nov 4, 2026
• GPT-6 Rosalind ResearchOct 30, 2026
• GPT-6.1 TerraOct 26, 2026
• GPT-6.1 SolSep 29, 2026
• GPT-6 LunaSep 22, 2026
• GPT-6 SolSep 22, 2026

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