Forbes October 25, 2024
An exclusive article in The Verge touting OpenAI’s planned launch of a new large language model — possibly called Orion or GPT-5 — in December is being dismissed by the company’s CEO and co-founder, Sam Altman.
Within a few hours of the article publishing on Thursday evening, Altman took to X — formerly known as Twitter — to disavow the story as “fake news out of control,” while not flatly issuing a decisive denial of any of the many details in the article.
It’s possible that Altman’s X post was simply a knee-jerk response to the exclusive story, since he didn’t provide a punch list of any specific falsehoods. It’s not unusual for corporate leaders to react in such a...