All confirmed GPT-6 leaks and early signals so far — what Sam Altman and OpenAI have hinted at, what’s real, what’s rumored, and what to expect next.

ChatGPT 6 Release Date: Rumors & What’s Actually Confirmed

Update, July 11, 2026: The “Spud” model everyone expected to become GPT-6 shipped on April 23, 2026 as GPT-5.5, not GPT-6, hitting 88.7% on SWE-bench Verified and 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.0 with 60% fewer hallucinations than GPT-5.4. OpenAI has since gone further and made GPT-5.6 generally available on July 9, 2026, in three tiers (Sol, Terra, and Luna). That is seven GPT-5 releases in under a year, and still no generational GPT-6, which OpenAI has not announced or dated. The sections below are updated to that reality; the pre-launch rumor history is preserved as a record of what the field expected. For the full breakdown of the current flagship, read […]

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

Update, April 23, 2026: The wait is over, and the naming question is resolved. OpenAI launched the model on April 23, 2026 and branded it GPT-5.5, not GPT-6. The new flagship ships in three variants (standard, GPT-5.5 Thinking, GPT-5.5 Pro) and hit 88.7% on SWE-bench Verified, 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.0, 92.4% on MMLU, and an Intelligence Index of 59 (second only to Grok 5). OpenAI says GPT-5.5 produces 60% fewer hallucinations than GPT-5.4. The Polymarket prediction (78% by April 30) came in on time; the “high 70s on SWE-bench Pro” benchmark leak did not, with the actual score landing at 58.6%, still behind Claude Opus 4.7’s 64.3%. Read our full […]