OpenAI says it doesn’t plan to release an AI model named Orion this year as told to TechCrunch, contradicting recent reports about the company’s product roadmap.
The Verge reported on Thursday that Orion, which is expected to be OpenAI’s next model, will launch by December, and that trusted partners will be the first to preview it before it rolls out via ChatGPT. Microsoft, a close collaborator and investor with OpenAI, expects to have access to Orion as early as November, according to The Verge.
Orion, a step up from OpenAI’s current flagship, GPT-4o, is said to be trained in part on synthetic training data from o1, the company’s “inference” model. OpenAI plans to continue developing new “GPT” models in tandem with inference models like o1 for the foreseeable future, which it sees as addressing entirely different use cases.