OpenAI plans to release its next big AI model by December

OpenAI plans to launch Orion, its next frontier model, by December, Edge I’ve learned.

Unlike the release of OpenAI’s last two models, GPT-4o and o1, Orion will not initially be widely released through ChatGPT. Instead, OpenAI plans to give access first to companies it works closely with so they can build their own products and features, according to a source familiar with the plan.

says another source Edge Engineers within Microsoft — OpenAI’s key partner for deploying AI models — are preparing to host Orion on Azure as early as November. While Orion is viewed within OpenAI as a successor to GPT-4, it is unclear whether the company will call it GPT-5 externally. As always, the release plan is subject to change and may be delayed. OpenAI and Microsoft declined to comment for this story.

Orion had been harassed before An executive at OpenAI It is potentially up to 100 times stronger than GPT-4; It is separate from the o1 OpenAI inference model that was released in September. The company’s goal is to combine its LLM degrees over time to create a more capable model that could eventually be called artificial general intelligence, or AGI.

It was previously reported that OpenAI was using o1, code named Strawberry, for Provide synthetic data to train Orion. In September, OpenAI researchers held a happy hour to celebrate the completion of training the new model, a source familiar with the matter said. Edge.

This timing corresponds to ambiguity Share on X Written by Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, in which he says he is “excited that the winter zodiac signs will appear soon.” If you ask ChatGPT o1-preview what Altman’s post is hiding, he’ll tell you he’s alluding to the word Orion, the winter constellation most visible in the night sky from November to February (but he also hallucinates that you can rearrange the letters to spell “ORION”).

The release of this next model comes at a critical time for OpenAI, which just closed a landmark $6.6 billion funding round that requires the company to restructure itself as a for-profit entity. The company is also experiencing high employee turnover: CTO Mira Murati has just announced her departure with Bob McGrawthe company’s chief research officer, and Barrett ZoffVice President of Post-Training.