OpenAI is cooking up a new Garlic model to fight back Google
OpenAI is reportedly fast-tracking a new frontier model codenamed "Garlic" for an early launch in the new year. Trained on a significantly smaller dataset than GPT-4.5 to keep costs down, it rivals Google's Gemini 3 and Anthropic's Opus 4.5 in coding and reasoning. With Google closing the user gap and Sam Altman declaring an internal code red, OpenAI is feeling the pressure.