OpenAI’s GPT-5 LLM may launch sooner than you think

Generative artificial intelligence today has penetrated all walks of life – whether it is automation in industries, supply chain management, academics in school and college, or even content creation – whether in the form of text, images, or videos.

Arguably, OpenAI’s ChatGPT was a catalyst for this, since its launch in November 2022. Since then, it has also evolved at a rapid pace, getting more and more functionalities such as the generation of images using a DALL-E integration, the ability to remember your preferences and frequently asked questions via GPT-4, and more.

And now, OpenAI is likely to unveil its next big offering to us. Namely, the GPT-5 model. Read on to find out more.

GPT-5: What’s known so far

Rumour has it, that GPT-5 will be exponentially more powerful than GPT-4, being trained anywhere on anywhere between three-to-five times the number of parameters on the latter, which stands at approximately 1.7 trillion.

The model, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, will be “materially better than GPT-4.” Altman also mentions that the new model will be released this year. However, he didn’t mention the name “GPT-5” or a launch timeline.

This suggests that the upcoming model is still under testing, under the red-teaming phase. Red teaming refers to testing a Large Language Model (LLM) for any potential red flags around ethics and safety.

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Another thing to remember is that before GPT-4 was released, users were given access to GPT 3.5 as a follow up to GPT-3. This also suggests that OpenAI could potentially be working on a smaller release in the form of GPT-4.5, before actually releasing GPT-5.

Things to keep an eye out for in the AI space

A lot has been happening in the generative AI space for the past couple of months. All eyes have lately been on Sora, a platform that can generate realistic videos of up to one minute using nothing but textual prompts on your laptops and desktops.

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Google rebranded Bard to Gemini and also updated it to be powered by the LLM of the same name. Anthropic recently unveiled Claude 3 Opus as well. In such a scenario, it will be interesting to see how ChatGPT fares, and if it will remain as dominant in the space as it has been for so long,