OpenAI has effectively cancelled the release of o3, which was to be its next major standalone AI model, in favour of a “simplified” product offering, CEO Sam Altman announced on Wednesday. “We will release GPT-5 as a system that integrates a lot of our technology, including o3,” he said in a post on X. Altman stated that the company’s primary focus is to unify o-series models and GPT-series models by "creating systems" that can utilise all of their tools, know when to think for a long time or not, and "generally be useful for a very wide range of tasks." One particular user asked, “Any ETA for GPT 4.5 / GPT 5 @sama? Weeks? Months?”, to which he replied, “weeks / months.”
