OpenAI Cancels Its o3 AI Model In Favor of a 'Unified' Next-Gen Release 8
OpenAI has canceled the release of o3 in favor of a "simplified" product lineup. CEO Sam Altman said in a post on X that, in the coming months, OpenAI will release a model called GPT-5 that "integrates a lot of [OpenAI's] technology," including o3. TechCrunch reports: The company originally said in December that it planned to launch o3 sometime early this year. Just a few weeks ago, Kevin Weil, OpenAI's chief product officer, said in an interview that o3 was on track for a "February-March" launch. "We want to do a better job of sharing our intended roadmap, and a much better job simplifying our product offerings," Altman wrote in the post. "We want AI to 'just work' for you; we realize how complicated our model and product offerings have gotten. We hate the model picker [in ChatGPT] as much as you do and want to return to magic unified intelligence."
Altman also announced that OpenAI plans to offer unlimited chat access to GPT-5 at the "standard intelligence setting," subject to "abuse thresholds," once the model is generally available. (Altman declined to provide more detail on what this setting -- and these abuse thresholds -- entail.) Subscribers to ChatGPT Plus will be able to run GPT-5 at a "higher level of intelligence," Altman said, while ChatGPT Pro subscribers will be able to run GPT-5 at an "even higher level of intelligence."
"These models will incorporate voice, canvas, search, deep research, and more," Altman said, referring to a range of features OpenAI has launched in ChatGPT over the past few months. "[A] top goal for us is to unify [our] models by creating systems that can use all our tools, know when to think for a long time or not, and generally be useful for a very wide range of tasks." Before GPT-5 launches, OpenAI plans to release its GPT-4.5 model, code-named "Orion," in the next several weeks, according to Altman's post on X. Altman says this will be the company's last "non-chain-of-thought model." Unlike o3 and OpenAI's other so-called reasoning models, non-chain-of-thought models tend to be less reliable in domains like math and physics.
Altman also announced that OpenAI plans to offer unlimited chat access to GPT-5 at the "standard intelligence setting," subject to "abuse thresholds," once the model is generally available. (Altman declined to provide more detail on what this setting -- and these abuse thresholds -- entail.) Subscribers to ChatGPT Plus will be able to run GPT-5 at a "higher level of intelligence," Altman said, while ChatGPT Pro subscribers will be able to run GPT-5 at an "even higher level of intelligence."
"These models will incorporate voice, canvas, search, deep research, and more," Altman said, referring to a range of features OpenAI has launched in ChatGPT over the past few months. "[A] top goal for us is to unify [our] models by creating systems that can use all our tools, know when to think for a long time or not, and generally be useful for a very wide range of tasks." Before GPT-5 launches, OpenAI plans to release its GPT-4.5 model, code-named "Orion," in the next several weeks, according to Altman's post on X. Altman says this will be the company's last "non-chain-of-thought model." Unlike o3 and OpenAI's other so-called reasoning models, non-chain-of-thought models tend to be less reliable in domains like math and physics.
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OpenAI Cancels Its o3 AI Model In Favor of a 'Unified' Next-Gen Release
Translation: We'll be busy for the foreseeable future ripping anything of value out of the DeepSeek source code and hopefully finish before Josh Hawley gets his "Ban Chinese Evil Communist AI" act passed and we'll have to pay a $100 million fine and bribe somebody to escape the 20 year jail sentence.
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Or "that thing we promised turned out to be harder than we said, so we're going to just not deliver it, and claim it's because the next version will be even better"...
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Business as usual in a "permanent delivery scam". The one true thing that will make all the "investments" and the wait pay off is always somewhere around the corner, but never materializes.
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OpenAI Cancels Its o3 AI Model In Favor of a 'Unified' Next-Gen Release
Translation: We'll be busy for the foreseeable future ripping anything of value out of the DeepSeek source code and hopefully finish before Josh Hawley gets his "Ban Chinese Evil Communist AI" act passed and we'll have to pay a $100 million fine and bribe somebody to escape the 20 year jail sentence.
For fuck's sake man, open model is not open source. It's like I give you compiled Java byte code for free and call it open source because it runs in an interpreter. You don't have the inputs or tools that were used to produce it, you do not have the source code.
There's nothing for OpenAI to take, it's not as advanced at OpenAI's models, nobody, not even the people that made DeepSeek are claiming that. The only claim is that they did what they did cheaply. Allegedly, by training it on ChatGPT, so there's not
What, does not work that well? (Score:2)
Empty promises getting far too obvious? Such a shame!
Thinking models are nice and all but... (Score:2)
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