ChatGPT-5 won’t be coming in 2025, according to Sam Altman – but superintelligence is ‘achievable’ with today’s hardware

In a recent Reddit AMA (ask me anything), OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, along with some other top OpenAI executives, dropped a number of hints about the company’s future, and what to expect from ChatGPT next year.

Firstly, when asked if there would be a ChatGPT-5 Altman doubled down on his “fake news” response on X recently to an article talking of its imminent release: “We have some very good releases coming later this year! Nothing that we are going to call GPT-5, though”, he replied. The phrasing “this year” does indicate that a new LLM could be released by OpenAI very soon though.

Agents are coming

It’s been a busy week for OpenAI, with the release of Advanced Voice mode on the desktop app versions of ChatGPT and a new ChatGPT search, which even challenges Google. When asked about the value of the recently released ChatGPT search compared to traditional search engines, like Google, Altman was enthusiastic: “For many queries, I find it to be a way faster/easier way to get the information I’m looking for. I think we’ll see this especially for queries that require more complex research. I also look forward to a future where a search query can dynamically render a custom web page in response!”

When asked about the next update to Dall-E 3, the image generator that’s part of ChatGPT, Altman was non committal: “The next update will be worth the wait! But we don’t have a release plan yet.” So it doesn’t look like much will be happening on the image generation front for a while.