OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman told reporters that GPT-6 is already in the works, and it’ll not take as long as GPT-5.
The GPT-6 announcement doesn’t surprise me because OpenAI is slowly becoming a product-first company rather than research-focused.
There’s no denying that OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman overhyped GPT-5 and underdelivered.
While GPT-5 isn’t exactly bad and actually offers significant improvements over GPT-4 or o3 for coding, the rollout wasn’t smooth and some people were expecting more than gradual improvements.
OpenAI CEO believes the company will do better next time and GPT-5 wasn’t really as bad some people claimed.
“I like the new one much better,” Altman told reporters last week.
“OpenAI quietly pushed a tone update to GPT-5 that’s ‘much warmer.'”
OpenAI admitted that the GPT-5 rollout wasn’t really well thought out, but that won’t stop the company from releasing GPT-6.
Sam added that GPT-6 will be bigger and different, but that’s not the only product coming from OpenAI.
For example, OpenAI is testing improvements for voice mode and will allow you to customize the speed.
OpenAI is also testing a new version of Codex that will allow you to enable Code Review for all PRs.
