OpenAI has released some major AI models since it first launched ChatGPT, and its most powerful one is GPT-4o. We’ve been on the 4-series of GPT models for a while, and people are starting to wonder when the next major upgrade is coming. Well, if you’re on the edge of your seat waiting for GPT-5, you’re going to be disappointed. GPT-5 isn’t coming this year.
GPT-4 is a major leap over GPT-3, and the company released the former not too long after ChatGPT’s big unveil. Since then, we’ve gotten several variants of GPT-4 like GPT-4 Turbo, GPT-4o, and GPT-4o mini. There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to the company’s releases.
GPT-5 isn’t coming this year
The people want to know! AI enthusiasts have been questioning Sam and the AI team about when we’ll see the next paradigm-shifting AI model. As you can tell, it was a point of interest during the company’s AMA on Reddit.
While many of the questions are broader in nature, a few users wanted to know when OpenAI is going to launch GPT-5. Unfortunately, the company still doesn’t have a set-in-stone release date for the model. Also, in a response, the company said, “we have some very good releases coming later this year! nothing that we are going to call gpt-5, though.”
We’ve been speculating about GPT-5 ever since earlier in the year. We assumed that the company was going to release it in May, but we eventually got GPT-4o. Now, that model is OpenAI’s flagship model.
During an interview, Sam Altman spoke about the importance of releasing quickly and often. However, as AI becomes more complex, it gets harder for the company to keep the updates rolling in. One commenter asked, “Why is GPT-5 taking so long?” The company responded, “all of these models have gotten quite complex and we can’t ship as many things in parallel as we’d like to. (we also face a lot of limitations and hard decisions about [how] we allocated our compute towards many great ideas.).”
So, as time goes on, we can expect OpenAI to release fewer and fewer updates.