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GPT-5 update coming in December?

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GPT-5 update coming in December?

OpenAI abandoned the key pair ChatGPT updates this year, but none of them were the big GPT-5 update we’re all waiting for. First, in May 2024, we received GPT-4o with expanded support for multimodal modes, including enhanced voice mode. Just recently we got o1 (in preview) with more advanced reasoning capabilities.

The names don’t have much meaning and they could be anything really. But of course it is clear that OpenAI tried my best not to name any GPT-5.

This is understandable given the history of this unofficial product name. Some have linked GPT-5 to AGI, a more advanced version of AI capable of human-like reasoning, but the future of AGI remains uncertain. GPT-5 also appeared about a year ago, around the time (brief) sacking of Sam Altman.

Regardless of what product names OpenAI chooses for future ChatGPT models, the next major update could be released by December. It will be different from GPT-4o and o1 and may be more powerful. But this GPT-5 candidate, reportedly called Orion, may not be available to regular users like you and me, at least initially.

According to EdgeOpenAI plans to launch Orion in the coming weeks, but it will not be available via ChatGPT. Instead, Orion will only be available to companies that OpenAI works closely with. They will develop their own products and features based on Orion.

Edge also notes that Orion is being considered as a successor to GPT-4, but it is unclear whether it will retain the GPT-4 name or be named GPT-5.

The blog also revealed that Microsoft plans to host Orion on Azure as early as November. Microsoft is one of OpenAI’s largest partners, and its co-pilot is built on top of ChatGPT.

Speaking of OpenAI partners, Apple has integrated ChatGPT into iOS 18, although access to the chatbot is currently only available through the iOS 18.2 beta. It’s unclear whether Orion will initially be available to Apple.

When Orion does arrive, it will give ChatGPT a huge boost. The report notes that Orion is 100 times more powerful than GPT-4, but it is unclear what this means. It is different from the o1 version released by OpenAI in September, and it is unclear whether o1’s capabilities will be integrated into Orion.

OpenAI wants to combine multiple LLMs in time to create a larger model that could become the artificial general intelligence (AGI) product that all AI companies want to develop.

Apparently, o1’s goal was, among other things, to train Orion with synthetic data. Edge in mid-September, a tweet from Sam Altman appeared that seemed to tease that something big was going to happen this winter. Presumably this coincided with OpenAI researchers celebrating the end of Orion’s training.

Edge posted the cryptic post above on o1-preview, and ChatGPT concluded that Altman may be teasing Orion, a constellation that is best visible in the night sky from November to February. The chatbot also hallucinated along the way, that’s all.

As I said earlier, looking at the rumors about the development of OpenAI ChatGPT, I am confident that the number of major updates will continue to decline. Whether it’s GPT-4o, Advanced Voice Mode, o1/strawberry, Orion, GPT-5 or something else, OpenAI has no choice but to provide. He can’t afford to fall far behind, especially with what’s happened lately.

OpenAI just completed a new round of funding, raising $6.6 billion in capital and agreeing to become a commercial entity. This means he must earn (more) money. And the only way to do this is to update ChatGPT with new features.

Before this week’s report, we talked about ChatGPT Orion in early Septembera week before Altman’s tweet. At that time, Information reported on internal OpenAI documents that discussed various subscription levels for ChatGPT, including figures that went as high as $2,000.