OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed a significant shift in the company's release plans on Friday, announcing that two intermediate models will arrive before its highly anticipated GPT-5.
"Change of plans: We are going to release o3 and o4-mini after all, probably in a couple of weeks, and then do GPT-5 in a few months," Altman wrote on X Friday.
change of plans: we are going to release o3 and o4-mini after all, probably in a couple of weeks, and then do GPT-5 in a few months.
there are a bunch of reasons for this, but the most exciting one is that we are going to be able to make GPT-5 much better than we originally…
— Sam Altman (@sama) April 4, 2025
The surprise announcement comes as OpenAI grapples with technical complexities in its flagship model development. Altman admitted the company "found it harder than we thought it was going to be to smoothly integrate everything" into GPT-5, suggesting the staggered release will help ensure sufficient capacity "to support what we expect to be unprecedented demand."
The move places OpenAI in an increasingly crowded field of AI heavyweights rolling out advanced models. Google recently launched Gemini 2.5 Pro, which boasts 1 million tokens of context and has been widely regarded as the best reasoning and coding model available&...
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