Open AI CEO Sam Altman hints at GPT-5 model arrival, says a lot work to be done

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

OpenAI has become one of the most promising AI companies in the past couple of years, after launching its brainchild ChatGPT in 2022. Since then, the company has introduced different versions of ChatGPT, the latest being the GPT-4o. However, in the past few months, there has been a lot of hype around OpenAI launching its next GPT-5 model.

Now Open AI’s CEO, Sam Altman has started dropping hints about GPT-5 and according to him, GPT-5 will be a "significant leap forward". According to a new report by The Decoder, while addressing the audience at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Altman also said that there is still much work to be done on the new model.

Speaking about the same, Altman added, “We don’t know yet. We are optimistic, but we still have a lot of work to do on it.” He further stated, “A lot of the things that GPT-4 gets wrong, you know, can’t do much in the way of reasoning, sometimes just sort of totally goes off the rails and makes a dumb mistake, like even a six-year-old would never make.”

Altman's latest remarks about GPT-5 suggest that the next large language model (LLM) from Open AI may be in the early development phase and would not be released soon, given the complex algorithmic and data issues of the project along with its huge scale.

He also spoke about the progress and capabilities of GPT-4o and termed it “smart, fast, fun, natural, and helpful.” Moreover, Altman added that the new voice and video modes of the GPT-4o as the best computer interface he has ever used and even suggested that it is like “AI from the movies.”