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OpenAI describes research focused beyond GPT-6

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The newsletter reports OpenAI saying 80–90% of its research concerns GPT-7 and later systems and arguing that users have become the bottleneck.

Reported metric: 80-90%

Reporting date: 2026-09-29 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to September 29, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)
Source linked by the September 29 issue (the-decoder.com)

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Welcome to September 29, 2026

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OpenAI

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Welcome to September 29, 2026

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OpenAI describes research focused beyond GPT-6
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-09-29
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-09-29-research-focus
Claim: The newsletter reports OpenAI saying 80–90% of its research concerns GPT-7 and later systems and arguing that users have become the bottleneck.
Attributed sources:
- Welcome to September 29, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-september-29-2026
- Source linked by the September 29 issue — https://the-decoder.com/openai-says-80-to-90-percent-of-its-research-already-targets-gpt-7-and-beyond/
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