Today marks a full year since OpenAI unveiled GPT-4, its advanced language model that brought incremental improvements over its predecessor. Upon its release, the model showcased exceptional human-level performance across various professional and academic benchmarks. Earlier today, speculation arose as OpenAI hinted at details regarding the upcoming GPT-4.5 Turbo large language model in a now-unavailable blog post. The new model was described as surpassing GPT-4 in terms of speed, accuracy, and scalability.
Speculation on Release Date
There is anticipation regarding a potential release around July or August, fueled by the intriguing mention of a "knowledge cutoff" set for June 2024. This indicates that the AI chatbot will have access to all online information until that specified date. While some view this as a potential error, others speculate that OpenAI might unveil GPT-4.5 Turbo in the near future before transitioning to their next-generation model, GPT-5.
Enhanced Capabilities of GPT-4.5 Turbo
A notable enhancement in GPT-4.5 Turbo is its expanded context length window of 256K tokens, doubling the capacity of GPT-4 Turbo's 128K tokens. This adjustment seems to be OpenAI's response to competitors rolling out models with larger context windows. Following Google's rebranding of Bard to Gemini and the introduction of new AI Model updates, discussions have emerged, pondering whether Gemini could become the preferred Large Language Model (LLM). The emergence of a new GPT model could potentially level the playing field for OpenAI or even push it ahead of Google's AI chatbot.
OpenAI's Silence and Future Outlook
OpenAI has yet to officially comment on the leak, maintaining an air of mystery around GPT-4.5 Turbo and the June 2024 deadline. The timing of the leak, coinciding with the first anniversary of GPT-4's launch, raises questions as to whether this was intentional. For further updates on OpenAI developments, keep an eye on GizmoChina.
