I believe in an interview Sam said he wanted to switch to a model where they make many small frequent changes while retaining the same name rather than a few large releases.
Not sure whether to put this under the GPT-5 (new) bucket or the other bucket.
I guess there's also a question of model targeting via the API versus the name of the system selected via the ChatGPT drop down.
In the case of the API datestamped GPT-5s seem like they would make sense.

@jessald I think I want to allow anything except the change being in the background and not modifying the name at all, bc i want to avoid the controversy/ambiguity that might lead to

but this is a significant drawback of this market i'm open to ideas

@Bayesian So if they release gpt-5-2025-10-01 via API but the name shown in the ChatGPT dropdown doesn't change how does this resolve? Or maybe it doesn't until GPT-6 comes out in a year or two?

@jessald that would resolve to gpt-5-date I think? would that go against @traders' intuitions

@Bayesian

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5/

I believe they've moved to a new paradigm where they consider GPT-5 to be a system which integrates multiple models along with integrated software scaffolding.
So I think I would not consider a new model accessible via API as a GPT-5 successor. You would need something more like an operating system release like Windows 11 versus Windows 10 or something like that.
I think I've convinced myself that GPT-6 is the right answer.

@jessald I think you've convinced me to N/A this market and think about it a bit more

@Bayesian lol fair enough

@creator Define successor