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Aftereffectively cancelingthe consumer launch of its o3 reasoning model in February , OpenAI now say it aims to release botho3and a next - gen replacement , o4 - miniskirt , in “ a duo of weeks . ”

In apost on X on Friday , OpenAI CEO Sam Altman say the reversal in grade is related to OpenAI ’s coming GPT-5 , which the company has previously said will be a unified model incorporating reasoning capabilities .

“ [ W]e are going to be able to make GPT-5 much better than we originally thought , ” Altman wrote . “ [ W]e also found it hard than we thought it was going to be to smoothly incorporate everything . [ A]nd we want to make certain we have enough capacity to endorse what we expect to be unprecedented demand . ”

Altman added that OpenAI expects to roll out GPT-5 “ in a few months ” — later on than originally anticipate .

“ [ GPT-5 ] will incorporate voice , Canvas , lookup , abstruse research , and more , ” Altmanwrote in an X postearly this yr , referring to a range of feature OpenAI has launched in ChatGPT over the past several month . “ [ A ] top destination for us is to unite [ our ] models by make systems that can use all our tool , know when to recall for a farsighted fourth dimension or not , and generally be utile for a very wide stove of tasks . ”

OpenAI is facing increase pressure from contender such as Chinese AI lab DeepSeek that have adopted an “ open ” approach to launch model . In line to OpenAI ’s strategy , these “ open ” competitors make their models uncommitted to the AI residential area for experiment and , in some sheath , commercialization .

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In addition to o3,an “ o3 pro ” model , o4 - miniskirt , and GPT-5 , OpenAI be after to debut itsfirst opened language modelsinceGPT‑2 in the coming calendar month . This modeling will have reasoning capableness , Altmansaid earlier this calendar week , and will be subject to additional safety valuation .