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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed the company’s plans to release GPT-4.5 and GPT-5 models, aiming to simplify their product offerings and make them more intuitive for users.

OPENAI ROADMAP UPDATE FOR GPT-4.5 and GPT-5:

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.

We hate…
— Sam Altman (@sama) February 12, 2025

Altman acknowledged that the current product lineup has become too complex and stated that OpenAI intends to change this.

“We hate the model selection option just as much as you do, and we want to return to the magic of unified intelligence,” he wrote.

GPT-4.5, codenamed Orion, will be the last AI model from the startup without a “reasoning chain” mechanism. The next step will involve transitioning to more integrated solutions.

The company plans to merge the o and GPT series models, creating systems capable of:

Using all available tools;
Determining when deep thinking is needed and when an instant decision is sufficient;
Adapting to a wide range of tasks.

GPT-5 will integrate various technologies, including o3. Other new features will include canvas mode, search, deep research, and more.

Free subscribers to GPT-5 will have unlimited access to the model’s tools at standard settings. Plus and Pro account holders will be able to use extended features with higher intelligence levels.

As for release dates, Altman mentioned “weeks” for GPT-4.5 and “months” for GPT-5 in a tweet reply.

According to Elon Musk, the ChatGPT competitor, the Grok 3 chatbot is in its final development stages and will be released in one to two weeks, as reported by Reuters.

“Grok 3 has very powerful reasoning capabilities, so in the tests we’ve conducted so far, Grok 3 outperforms all the released models we know of, so that’s a good sign,” Musk said at the World Government Summit in Dubai.

Recall, Altman declined an offer from Musk and a group of investors to purchase the controlling nonprofit organization behind OpenAI for $97.4 billion. The CEO of the startup suggested this was an attempt to “slow down” the competing project.