OpenAI's 'Spud' Model: The Potato-Named AI That Could Redefine AGI
OpenAI’s next flagship AI model is codenamed after a potato. And it might be the most important thing the company has built since ChatGPT. Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president, confirmed on the Big Technology podcast that Spud has finished training. It’s not an incremental GPT-4o update. It’s an entirely new base model — nearly two years of research condensed into what Brockman calls a “major step toward AGI.” The timing is no accident. Spud lands in the same week as OpenAI’s $122 billion fundraise, the death of Sora, and Anthropic’s alarming Mythos leak. Welcome to the most consequential week in AI this year. ...