OpenAI is announcing new ChatGPT and GPT-4 updates Monday afternoon, and chief executive Sam Altman is pushing its hype online.
“Feels like magic to me,” the OpenAI CEO wrote in a post on X on Friday. While reports had speculated that the launch would be a new AI-powered search product to rival Google, Altman clarified that the release would not include a search engine.“Not gpt-5, not a search engine, but we’ve been hard at work on some new stuff we think people will love!” Altman wrote in the post.
Others have speculated that OpenAI’s announcement could still involve search, or perhaps an AI-powered voice assistant tool. The announcement is set for 1 p.m. Eastern standard time on OpenAI’s website.
Altman has been transparent about how he feels about OpenAI’s products. In March, the CEO said that ChatGPT’s current models aren’t near his standards. “I think it kind of sucks,” Altman said when asked about GPT-4 in a podcast interview with computer scientist Lex Fridman.
“I think it is our job to live a few years in the future and remember that the tools we have now are going to kind of suck, looking backward at them, and that’s how we make sure the future is better,” he added.
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