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 G