Sam Altman slams ChatGPT-5 model rumor as ‘fake news’

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman precocious slammed a media study astir nan imminent merchandise of Orion, which is efficaciously ChatGPT-5, pinch a terse tweet connected X.com. He described nan study arsenic “fake news retired of control”, quashing rumors of a caller type of ChatGPT earlier December.

The report by The Verge quotes ‘sources’ arsenic claiming Microsoft is readying to big Orion, nan successor to ChatGPT-4 connected its servers successful November, pointing towards a merchandise for nan caller LLM successful clip for ChatGPT’s 2nd day adjacent month.

ChatGPT’s 2nd birthday

Altman, who has a history of posting cryptic messages connected X.com that hint astatine upcoming merchandise releases successful a coded way, posted connected 21 October “Whoa ChatGPT's 2nd day is adjacent month!”, followed up by a tweet saying, “What should we springiness it for a day present…”

Many users took this to mean a caller merchandise motorboat was imminent astir nan clip of ChatGPT’s 2nd day (ChatGPT was released connected 30 November 2022). Altman’s latest X.com station nevertheless would look to region immoderate ambiguity astir nan event.

In a erstwhile cryptic station connected 14 September, Altman wrote “I emotion being location successful nan midwest. nan nighttime entity is truthful beautiful. excited for nan wintertime constellations to emergence soon; they are truthful great.”

i emotion being location successful nan midwest.the nighttime entity is truthful beautiful.excited for nan wintertime constellations to emergence soon; they are truthful great.September 14, 2024

Since nan Winter constellation Orion is astir visible successful nan nighttime entity from November to February, this was taken arsenic different hint astir a imaginable merchandise day for Orion.

ChatGPT is nan astir wide utilized chatbot successful nan US pinch a whopping 24.9 cardinal searches for nan word each month, according to Superside, which puts it a agelong measurement up of nan adjacent astir searched-for AI chatbot, Google's Gemini connected 1.5 cardinal searches. You tin usage ChatGPT for respective useful tasks for illustration readying a trip, researching subjects for a schoolhouse project, aliases simply coming up pinch a scheme to get your adjacent business thought disconnected nan ground.

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ChatGPT will beryllium integrated into an upcoming type of Apple Intelligence, moving connected compatible Apple devices, and go accessible done nan Siri virtual assistant. ChatGPT is besides accessible via a stand-alone mobile app that features an Advanced Voice mode connected mobile, which enables you to chat pinch nan AI conscionable arsenic you would chat pinch a quality being.

We contacted OpenAI for remark connected this communicative but they simply referred america to Altman’s tweet, saying “The champion consequence is Sam’s tweet, which sums it up!”

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Graham is nan Senior Editor for AI astatine TechRadar. With complete 25 years of acquisition successful some online and people journalism, Graham has worked for various market-leading tech brands including Computeractive, PC Pro, iMore, MacFormat, Mac|Life, Maximum PC, and more. He specializes successful reporting connected everything to do pinch AI and has appeared connected BBC TV shows for illustration BBC One Breakfast and connected Radio 4 commenting connected nan latest trends successful tech. Graham has an honors grade successful Computer Science and spends his spare clip podcasting and blogging.

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