OpenAI’s final main Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) launch, GPT-4, launched in March 2023, and since then, ChatGPT customers have been eagerly awaiting the subsequent huge improve. Though OpenAI launched GPT-4o, an iteration of GPT-4 with enhanced textual content, imaginative and prescient, and audio capabilities earlier this 12 months, there was no signal of a big new mannequin launch. Nonetheless, Sam Altman has now offered an official replace on the way forward for GPT-5 throughout a latest AMA session on Reddit.

When requested concerning the launch date and options of GPT-5, Altman responded, “we’ve got some superb releases coming later this 12 months! nothing that we’re going to name gpt-5, although.”

Altman’s response signifies that whereas GPT-5 itself might not be on OpenAI’s quick roadmap, customers may anticipate a brand new mannequin launch by the top of this 12 months.

Replying to a different query about why GPT-5 is taking this lengthy to ship, Altman mentioned, “All of those fashions have gotten fairly complicated and we will not ship as many issues in parallel as we would prefer to. (we additionally face quite a lot of limitations and exhausting selections about we allotted our compute in direction of many nice concepts.)”

OpenAI takes on Google with ChatGPT Search:

In the meantime, OpenAI on Friday introduced a brand new search performance in ChatGPT, taking it toe to toe with Microsoft’s Bing and Google search. The brand new search characteristic is powered by the GPT-4o mannequin and is a extra advanced model of the SearchGPT prototype unveiled by the corporate earlier this 12 months.

The ChatGPT search characteristic is triggered by default primarily based on what the person is trying to find. There may be additionally an choice to manually activate the search performance by clicking on the brand new internet search icon, situated simply adjoining to the attachment icon.

A Reddit person additionally requested Altman what benefits SearchGPT affords over Google to which the OpenAI CEO replied, “for a lot of queries, i discover it to be a means sooner/simpler option to get the data i am searching for. i believe we’ll see this particularly for queries that require extra complicated analysis. i additionally stay up for a future the place a search question can dynamically render a customized internet web page in response!”