OpenAI is set to streamline its product offerings with the launch of GPT-4.5 and GPT-5, CEO Sam Altman announced in a recent series of posts on X.
OpenAI plans to get rid of the “model picker” in favor of what Altman calls “magic unified intelligence.”
The company’s next release, GPT-4.5, known internally as ‘Orion,’ will be the final iteration before GPT-5, which will then offer a more integrated approach by combining its o-series and GPT-series models.
In this unified system, OpenAI wants to create models that are adept in a wide range of tasks, such as deciding when to think deeply or respond quickly.
Plus, the free tier of ChatGPT will feature unlimited access to GPT-5, albeit with some operational limitations, while paid tiers will unlock progressively more robust versions complete with voice, canvas, and search abilities.
Altman didn’t have give any precise deadline for the launches of the new models, saying it could take weeks or months to launch GPT 4.5 and 5.
The Bigger Picture: This wouldn’t be the first time OpenAI makes such an attempt either. The company had earlier integrated its chat and image models into a single chat interface, where the Dall-E model jumps in whenever the user mentions a need to generate images.
It is also a standard understanding among AI companies that experiences need to be streamlined and this is where AI agents seem to be headed.
OpenAI has launched two of its own — Operator and Deep Research.
Now, it makes sense that the company wants to orient itself on consolidating all its products under one experience.
Reasoning models are the latest in line of LLM products but have made such a wave with OpenAI o1, o3 and DeepSeek R1 that there is already a significant mainstream demand for them.
I would assume that they integrate similarly into the interface as others, but crucial breakthrough here would be to chain a logic to determine when the normal and when the reasoning model needs to be fetched to answer the user’s query.
We want to do a better job of sharing our intended roadmap, and a much better job simplifying our product offerings.
We want AI to “just work” for you; we realize how complicated our model and product offerings have gotten.
Google AI Studio lead Logal Kilpatrick said it has also been his company’s plan with Gemini, to “make sure the reasoning capabilities are part of the base model, not a side quest.”
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