Chen: OpenAI has internal models matching Gemini 3 and better successors coming
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Mark Chen, an executive at OpenAI, speaks in an interview with journalist Ashlee Vance about benchmarking OpenAI's internal AI models against Google's Gemini 3.
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“Just looking purely at the benchmarks, you know, we actually felt quite confident you know, we have models internally that perform at the level of Gemini three, and we're pretty confident that we will release them soon, and we can release successor models that are even better.”
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