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ChatGPT-6 leaks: Release Date, New Features and Rumours

OpenAI’s next frontier model is no longer a distant rumor. Codenamed “Spud,” the model finished pretraining on March 24, 2026, as confirmed by Sam Altman himself. Greg Brockman described it as “two years of research” with a “big model feel.” The question is no longer if it’s coming, but when it drops and whether OpenAI will call it GPT-5.5 or GPT-6. Prediction markets are pricing in a launch within weeks. Polymarket traders assign 78% probability of release by April 30 and over 95% by June 30, 2026. Early benchmark leaks suggest Spud could score in the high 70s on SWE-bench Pro, up from GPT-5.4’s 57.70%, which would put it in […]