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GPT-5 will launch within months, unifying OpenAI’s o-series and GPT-series chatbot models into an integrated system, Sam Altman says.
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OpenAI’s next iteration of its ChatGPT AI language model could be only a few months away, according to CEO Sam Altman.
In an updated roadmap posted to X on Feb. 12, Altman said the artificial intelligence firm will first release GPT-4.5, called Orion internally, as OpenAI’s “last non-chain-of-thought model.”
“After that, a top goal for us is to unify o-series models and GPT-series models by creating systems that can use all our tools, know when to think for a long time or not, and generally be useful for a very wide range of tasks,” he said.
“In both ChatGPT and our API, we will release GPT-5 as a system that integrates a lot of our technology, including o3. We will no longer ship o3 as a standalone model,” Altman added.
Source: Sam Altman
OpenAI’s o3 is the firm’s “reasoning model,” which attempts to fact-check itself to avoid getting facts wrong or generating false information.
It released an o3-mini on Jan. 31 as an AI model designed to enhance reasoning capabilities, particularly in tasks involving mathematics, coding, and scientific analysis.
Altman didn’t give an exact timeline for the release for GPT-4.5 or GPT-5; but told an X user it would be a matter of weeks for GPT-4.5 and months for GPT-5.
Source: Sam Altman
Altman also said that even free users will have access to GPT-5, subject to “abuse thresholds,” while premium and pro users will be able to run GPT-5 at a higher level of intelligence.
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The AI race has been heating up with the launch of rival DeepSeek, which functions similarly to ChatGPT and whose launch spooked US stock and crypto markets.
Microsoft and OpenAI are reportedly probing if data from ChatGPT’s API was improperly obtained by a group linked to DeepSeek.
In December, Google AI research lab DeepMind launched a new AI model, Gemini 2.0, which it said would be the bedrock used to build more advanced AI agents.
During The Wall Street Journal’s Future of Everything podcast last November, Marc Benioff, CEO of American cloud computing software firm Salesforce, predicted that the future of AI lies in autonomous agents rather than large language models.
Around the same time, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said his firm is focused on being at the forefront of agentic AI.
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