OpenAI's AI Designing Next Model: SoftBank CEO Claims

SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son claims that an AI model is already helping design a future AI model at OpenAI. He says OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and engineers told him this directly. This news comes as AI company Anthropic is calling for a slowdown in AI development. Anthropic believes future AI systems could design, build, and train their own successors with little human involvement. Son suggests this process has already begun. He calls this shift "superintelligence," where AI becomes significantly smarter than humans and helps develop its own successors. OpenAI declined to comment on unreleased models. However, the company has previously stated that an AI model called GPT-5.3-Codex was instrumental in creating itself by assisting with debugging and deployment. This development highlights a growing debate about the pace and control of AI advancement.