OpenAI gearing up to unveil its upcoming advanced AI model in December

OpenAI is gearing up to introduce its forthcoming flagship model, Orion, in December, as per The Verge — and Microsoft, a significant investor in Open AI, is reportedly preparing to roll out Orion on Azure as soon as November.

Orion is positioned as the next iteration of GPT-4 and is claimed to be potentially 100 times more powerful. In contrast to Open AI’s preceding models, GPT-4o and o1, Orion will not initially be launched through the AI assistant Chat GPT. Instead, OpenAI’s strategy involves granting select companies access to the AI model initially, enabling them to leverage it in developing their own products.

The nomenclature of the upcoming model, whether it will follow the GPT-5 naming convention or something different, remains uncertain. Although both Open AI and Microsoft have opted not to provide comments in response to the report, OpenAI spokesperson Niko Felix has shared with The Verge that the company currently has no intentions to introduce a model with the codename Orion this year.

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