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Cerebras Big Chip Club: Jeffrey Wang (OpenAI) on Turning Compute Into Intelligence

Cerebras · Jul 28, 2026 · Other Signals

OpenAI pre-training researcher Jeffrey Wang is working on next-generation models called GPT Next.

“I'm Jeffrey. I work as a pre-training researcher at OpenAI. Uh, I work on pre-training our next generation of models, GPT, Next and Next, Next, everything afterward.”

A Cerebras podcast interview with Jeffrey Wang, an OpenAI pre-training researcher who left Harvard after his third year to join the lab. He briefly mentions working on 'GPT Next and Next Next' — future model generations — but the content is primarily a personal origin story with no substantive technical or strategic disclosures. The only mild signal is the casual confirmation of OpenAI's internal model naming cadence.

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