Half of 25 surveyed lab researchers expect strongest models to stay internal

OpenAI developer Thibault Sottiaux wrote on X that GPT-6 Astra was probably the company's biggest competitive advantage while it was not publicly available, and that internal use pulled some plans forward by six months. The Decoder reports the claim alongside a survey by IAPS fellow Severin Field.

Of 25 researchers surveyed at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and Meta, 20 ranked the automation of AI research among the biggest AI risks, and half expected the most powerful models to stay internal rather than be sold to the public. Anthropic has separately claimed that Claude now writes more than 80 percent of its production code. The Decoder notes that not everyone accepts the productivity claims.