Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, channeled his inner Steve Jobs, making plans to radically improve the business ‘ product line-up by combining its disparate AI models into a single, cohesive system on Wednesday.
The decision comes just days after Chinese foe DeepSeek made waves with the release of a simpler, more skilled AI that threatened to overwhelm OpenAI’s more sophisticated choices.
In a statement, Sam Altman stated,” We want to accomplish a better job of sharing our designed strategy and a much better job of simplifying our product offerings.
OpenAI currently has a diverse ( some might say confusing ) model offering, with GPT being the creative LLM, “o” being the reasoning model,” Dall-e” being the image generator,” Sora” being a video generator, and” GPT-Vision” being a model for visual understanding.
Echoing Jobs’s popular phrase, Altman tweeted,” We want AI to ‘ only work’ for you, we realize how complicated our design and goods offerings have gotten”.
Altman outlined the roadmap in detail, promising to change the perplexing interface that made users choose between various AI versions for various tasks.
The option? a reversal of what Altman called “magic integrated intelligence,” where the business would combine its numerous text-models, including the enigmatic “o-series” and the” GPT home,” into a single system capable of handling everything from casual talk to complex research.
” A major goal for us is to integrate o-series designs and GPT-series designs by creating systems that can use all of our tools, know when to consider for a long time, and generally be beneficial for a very wide range of tasks,” Altman wrote.
The release of GPT-4.5, known internally as” Orion,” will be the first step in that direction.
As Altman has confirmed, it will be OpenAI’s final version of the ChatGPT technology, which is essentially the ChatGPT we all know and love. It will be available within the coming weeks and months.
The real transformation will come with GPT-5, which is supposed to incorporate all of OpenAI’s technologies, including the capabilities of the unreleased o3 model.
In other words, GPT-5 will serve as a kind of AI hub capable of performing everything that its various models currently do, ranging from writing creative images to writing creative writing to complex reasoning and programming, depending on the task. Users won’t have to pick the best model for the job.
OpenAI’s so-called “reasoning models” work through a query via” chain-of-thought”, a technique in which a model analyzes a question and generates a sequence of intermediate reasoning steps before reaching a conclusion.
Typically, reasoning models are not good at creative tasks, and vice versa: models good at creativity ( like GPT-4.5 ) tend to be bad at reasoning, especially when zero-shot prompting—users expecting to do everything in one single command—is involved.
OpenAI announced today that GPT-5 will be accessible through ChatGPT’s free tier, provoking discussion about its newfound competition with DeepSeek, whose surprise launch recently demonstrated its superior AI model available for free and open source.
Users will have unrestricted access to the standard intelligence setting, but abuse will be avoided.
For businesses and professional-grade research, the company unveiled a tiered access system that will give paying customers more computational muscle.
Plus, Pro users will receive the most advanced version while subscribers will have access to a higher intelligence setting that uses more computing power to solve complex problems.
” These models will incorporate voice, canvas, search, deep research, and more”, Altman wrote.
Additionally, the changes mean OpenAI will not include its capabilities in the unified GPT-5 system and not even the currently available o3 model.
For developers using OpenAI’s API, this translates into a simpler integration process—instead of choosing between different models, they’ll access a single system capable of handling diverse tasks.
However, it might also be counterproductive because some use cases may be more profitable with less computing power and less expensive tokens.
OpenAI didn’t elaborate on how it will impact API costs. But Sam Altman is sure it will be worth it—in fact, he expects it to be so capable that he hyped it up, saying,” I don’t think I’m going to be smarter than GPT-5″ in a recent panel in Berlin.
As a famous man , once said,” Stay hungry, stay foolish”, Sam.
edited by Sebastian Sinclair and Josh Quittner
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