Sam Altman's OpenAI Confirms GPT-5 Is About to Drop

Key Points

1. OpenAI posted a teaser video showing 'GPT-4o' transitioning to 'GPT-5,' hinting at an upcoming release.

2. GitHub leaks revealed four GPT-5 variants in development, including a base model for logic tasks and a mini version for efficiency.

3. GPT-5 is expected to unify reasoning processes and integrate text, vision, and audio processing, potentially making it the most powerful AI model yet.

4. OpenAI's head of applied research mentioned infrastructure scaling delays but expressed excitement about public response to GPT-5.

5. The company recently released two open-weight models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, ahead of GPT-5's anticipated launch.