OpenAI “has a secret internal model that already passed Turing-level AGI tests,” claim leakers
Investigating the rumour that OpenAI has an internal model claimed to have achieved Turing-level reasoning.
Claim: OpenAI has an undisclosed model that surpasses Turing-test-level capability.
Verdict: Unproven — no benchmark results or credible sources support this rumour.
A fresh round of hype insists OpenAI already built “quiet AGI,” tested it, confirmed it, and then… decided not to mention it. Naturally, the people announcing this extraordinary achievement are anonymous accounts with extraordinarily flexible imaginations.
The Claim
That OpenAI has developed a fully internal, non-public model which has “reliably passed Turing-level AGI evaluations.”
This supposedly includes reasoning benchmarks, agent tests, and “general problem-solving capabilities beyond any public model.”
The Source
Anonymous Twitter/X leakers; recycled Reddit posts; and low-effort aggregators that simply restate each other’s claims until they sound self-referentially true.
No screenshots, no eval results, no papers — just vibes.
Our Assessment
OpenAI testing internal models is absolutely normal. They do it constantly.
But the idea that they secretly validated AGI — a term no one in the field even agrees on — and then let a handful of pseudonymous hype accounts break the story… is spectacularly unserious.
There is zero evidence for a “hidden AGI model,” and the claim relies entirely on the assumption that “if we don’t know about it, they must be hiding it.”
That is not intelligence analysis. That is fan fiction.
The Signal
What is true: internal research models usually run months ahead of public releases.
They are often stronger, weirder, and more experimental.
What’s not true: that “better than public” automatically equals “AGI.” If that were the bar, every lab would have “AGI” twice a year.
Verdict
Rumour Status: ❌ Evidence-Free Fantasy
Confidence: 98%
Nothing here rises above “my friend’s cousin works at OpenAI and told me in Fortnite chat.”
Where to go next
For a related Investigation, see How YouTube AI ‘explainer’ channels manufacture fake news
For a related Rumour, see Did OpenAI Train on Everyone’s Private Data?
