openai's "Bel" will be the most confusing rumored model i've followed in a while the initial rumor was that oai had finished a 10T+ parameter pretrain that was supposedly a successor to "Doug" then it linked to the internal model behind the Navier-Stokes breakthrough and hundreds of math results while others speculate that BEL is the pre-trained base behind Astra and the math model is something else entirely now there's even a new rumor connecting Bel to "GPT-6.2 Betelgeuse"