What you need to know
- OpenAI CEO says GPT-5 will be a major step up from its predecessor.
- “GPT-5 is currently in the early phase of development and there is still much work to do.”
- The official launch date of the model is still unclear, although a report suggests it could be in the summer.
There has been a lot of hype surrounding OpenAI’s release of its long-awaited GPT-5 model. Many users expected the ChatGPT maker to ship the AI model during its spring update event. However, the company has launched a new flagship model, GPT-4o, described as magical by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
But as it looks now, we’ll have to wait a bit longer. In a wide-ranging interview at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Sam Altman discussed the development of “GPT-5” (via The Decoder).
We don’t know yet. We are optimistic, but we still have a lot of work to do.
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI
While details on GPT-5’s launch date remain scarce, Altman says it will be a “significant advance.” Perhaps compared to its predecessor, GPT-4. In the past, Altman has indicated that GPT-4 “stinks” and called the model “a little embarrassing at best.”
Altman explained in more detail:
“I hope it’s a breakthrough. A lot of the things that GPT-4 does wrong, you know, they can’t do much in terms of reasoning, sometimes they just go completely off the rails and make a stupid mistake, which even a six-year-old wouldn’t ever make.”
Altman’s comments on GPT-5 suggest that the long-awaited model may be in the early stages of development. This can be attributed to complex algorithm and data issues, along with the scale of GPT-5.
The CEO compares the development of his LLMs to the iPhone. “The first iPhone still had a lot of bugs, but it was good enough to be useful for people,” Altman added.
Everything we know about GPT-5 so far
For one thing, the maker of ChatGPT may be moving away from traditional names and functions in its AI models, according to a slide shown during ChatGPT’s voice demos at the VivaTech conference in Paris in May.
Sam Altman’s sentiments that GPT-5 is a major step forward were echoed by a senior company executive, who claimed that today’s ChatGPT will be laughably bad within the next 12 months.
GPT-4 is the dumbest model any of you will ever have to use, by far. It’s important to ship early and often, and we believe in iterative deployment.
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI
We may be on the cusp of the biggest technological breakthrough in AI. Altman claims that the AI revolution won’t require new devices, which could indicate that the technology will be cloud-based. Ironically, most of the next-generation AI features coming to Windows 11 through version 24H2 require sophisticated Copilot+ PCs.
However, Altman said, “You’ll be happy to have a new device” if the revolution demands new hardware. Global PC shipments are on an upward trajectory with projections of 8% growth by 2025. Market analysts attribute this shift to the impending death of Windows 10 and the emergence of AI-powered PCs. The economy is seemingly recovering after the COVID-19 pandemic as more people are willing to make more IT-based investments.
Separately, a report suggests that OpenAI is preparing to launch a new model later this year during the summer that will reportedly make ChatGPT “really good, materially better.”
