TL;DR
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said that the next version of ChatGPT, i.e. ChatGPT 6, will be renamed ChatGPT 6-7.
- Although Altman is joking, “6 7” has actually been crowned the 2025 Word of the Year.
In a perfectly timed post on X, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that the next version of ChatGPT, ChatGPT 6, will apparently be called “GPT 6-7.” If you’re not a parent of a school-age child, you may be scratching your head right now. But in the wonderfully strange times we live in, “6 7” has been officially crowned. Dictionary.com Word of the Year 2025.
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No one, not even the folks at Dictionary.com, can agree on what “6 7” means, and that’s exactly the point. It’s supposed to be a funny, context-free inside joke and a perfect example of Gen Alpha’s chaotic lingo. While some say it could mean “more or less” or “maybe this, maybe that,” no one knows for sure, especially since the word goes with a hand gesture in which both palms face up and move up and down alternately. Sigh!
Altman’s statement could be a joke (we hope), but the coincidence is too good to ignore. The head of the world’s leading artificial intelligence company refers to a slang term that literally means nothing is special, for sure.
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