OpenAI plans to release its next major AI model by December

OpenAI plans to launch Orion, its next pioneering model, by December Edge he learned.

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

Another source says Edge that engineers at Microsoft – OpenAI’s primary partner in deploying artificial intelligence models – are preparing to host Orion on Azure in November. While Orion is seen within OpenAI as the 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 postponed. OpenAI and Microsoft declined to comment on the matter.

Orion was ridiculed director of OpenAI potentially up to 100 times stronger than GPT-4; is separate from OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model released in September. The company’s goal is to combine its LLMs over time to create an even more powerful model that could eventually be called artificial general intelligence (AGI).

We previously reported that OpenAI is using o1, codenamed Strawberry, to provide synthetic data for Orion training. In September, OpenAI researchers held a elated hour to celebrate the completion of training on the novel model, a source familiar with the matter said Edge.

This time coincides with the mystery write to X by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, in which he stated that he “can’t wait for the winter constellations to rise soon.” If you ask ChatGPT o1-preview what Altman’s post is about, he’ll tell you he’s referring to the word Orion, which is the winter constellation most evident in the night sky from November to February (but he also hallucinates that you can rearrange the letter to spell “ORION” ).

The release of the next model comes at a pivotal time for OpenAI, which just closed a historic $6.6 billion financing round that requires the company to restructure as a for-profit entity. The company is also experiencing significant staff turnover: CTO Mira Murati has just announced her departure with Bob McGrewcompany research director and Barrett Zofvice president for postgraduate training.