OpenAI won’t launch “o3” as a standalone synthetic intelligence mannequin, because the ChatGPT maker appears to be like to simplify its merchandise, CEO Sam Altman stated on Wednesday.
The Microsoft-backed start-up will launch a GPT-5 mannequin as a complete AI system that may incorporate o3 together with different applied sciences, he stated in a submit on X.
OpenAI had unveiled o3 and o3 mini fashions in December 2024.
Its announcement comes at a time when firms within the US are going through better investor scrutiny over their huge spending on the know-how, after Chinese language start-up DeepSeek unveiled a low-cost AI mannequin final month.
“We need to do … a a lot better job simplifying our product choices. We would like AI to ‘simply work’ for you; we realise how sophisticated our mannequin and product choices have gotten,” Altman stated, with out sharing any timeline for the discharge of those merchandise.
OpenAI didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
The generative AI pioneer goals to merge the o-series and GPT-series fashions in a bid to create AI techniques that may utilise all accessible instruments and deal with number of duties.
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OpenAI may even launch a GPT-4.5 mannequin, internally known as “Orion”, as its final “non-chain-of-thought” mannequin — a reasoning course of which generates direct solutions with out clear intermediate steps.
The mannequin typically struggles with complicated reasoning duties, notably in domains comparable to physics and arithmetic. — Jaspreet Singh, (c) 2025 Reuters
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