OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 May Arrive Next Week, but GPT-5 Is Just Around the Corner

OpenAI may be preparing to slap a new coat of paint on ChatGPT with an updated AI model, GPT-4.5, as early as next week. If that’s not enough to get users excited, the Sam Altman-led company is on the path toward its ultimate model while trying to hint that this next step will finally achieve “AGI.” Spoiler alert: it won’t. Based on anonymous sources, the Verge’s Tom Warren first reported that OpenAI’s next model could hit the scene sometime this month. Microsoft reportedly plans to host the company’s new model next week, though it may be longer before either company makes any official announcement. More importantly, for the “next big thing,” We may see the GPT-5 model as early as May, according to The Verge. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a post on X on Feb. 12 that ChatGPT users will get unlimited chat access to the “standard intelligence setting” of GPT-5 when it eventually drops, completely for free. GPT-5 will also integrate the o3 reasoning model for better fact-checking capabil ... Read full article.