OpenAI plans to release its next major flagship model, Orion, by December, according to The Verge — and Microsoft, which has invested heavily in Open AI, is said to be ready to launch Orion on Azure as early as November.
Orion is intended to be the successor to GPT-4 and is said to be up to 100 times stronger. However, unlike Open AI’s last two models, GPT-4o and o1, it will not be released first through the AI assistant Chat GPT. Instead, OpenAI plans to first give a collection of companies access to the AI model so they can use it to build their own products.
It’s unclear whether the new model will be called GPT-5 or something else. Both Open AI and Microsoft declined to comment on the report, though OpenAI spokesperson Niko Felix told The Verge the company doesn’t “have plans to release a model code-named Orion this year.”