Final night, Time printed a unique report from journalists Kylie Robison and Tom Warren, stating that OpenAI plans to launch another AI model, codenamed Orion, potentially GPT-5, by December.
Just two hours after the article was published, Robinson responded with a comment calling the information “unsubstantiated.”
Altman has been relatively quiet since then, failing to provide a direct response that definitively addresses the claims. His statement didn’t include a straightforward “no” or “that’s false,” and he didn’t offer a detailed critique of the article’s flaws. Is OpenAI indeed working on a new frontier model called Orion? Despite potential internal contradictions, my analysis suggests that OpenAI didn’t explicitly refute the notion in question. Are we not anticipating a release within the next twelve months?
It’s clear that this attempt will have to push forward with the reporting as it currently stands.
The seemingly contradictory quasi-denial stands out, juxtaposed against the meticulous report’s attention to detail, including specific particulars about Orion’s supposed launch plans, its apparent focus on enterprise prospects, and the initial plan to serve it exclusively through a robust application programming interface (API).
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The event — occurred in early September, just over a month ago. Despite the significant advancements in giant language models (LLMs), their broader impact has been surprisingly subdued, partly due to the substantial costs involved for both corporations and developers to operate them, as well as the fact that they represent a novel “reasoning” architecture that is more limited in certain respects than OpenAI’s GPT family of models, unable at present to accept file uploads or generate and analyze imagery?
A cutting-edge innovation, a state-of-the-art AI mannequin, will help OpenAI regain its position as a leader in the field by outshining competitors like Anthropic, which recently introduced its own innovative open-source language model.
Regardless of whether OpenAI ultimately releases a new Frontier model this year or not, we will be closely monitoring the situation. At present, it seems unlikely that adherents of the corporation’s trends should raise their expectations too hastily.
