OpenAI’s GPT-5 Model Reportedly Behind Schedule With Uncertain Future

PYMNTS.com December 22, 2024

OpenAI’s new artificial intelligence (AI) effort is reportedly over budget, months behind schedule, and not certain to work.

As The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported late Friday (Dec. 20), there may not be enough data in the world to make the project, known as GPT-5 and code-named Orion, smart enough.

GPT-5 has been in the works for more than 18 months, the report said, and is designed to be a major upgrade for the technology behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Sources told WSJ that Microsoft — OpenAI’s biggest investor — had expected to see GPT-5 by midyear.

OpenAI has held at least two large training sessions, each of which involved months of crunching vast amounts of data to make Orion smarter. With...

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