OpenAI Plans To Launch New Powerful AI Model 'Orion' By ...
Mainstreaming AlternateChatGPT maker OpenAI is reportedly planning to launch its next AI model called ‘Orion’ in December this year which is potentially up to 100 times more powerful than GPT-4. According to a report in The Verge, unlike the release of OpenAI’s last two models—GPT-4o and o1—Orion won’t initially be widely available through ChatGPT. The report, citing sources, mentioned that the Sam Altman-run AI company is planning to grant access to companies first to help them build their own products and features.
Microsoft's Role in Hosting Orion
According to the report, Microsoft is “preparing to host Orion on Azure as early as November”. Microsoft also declined to comment. “The company’s goal is to combine its LLMs over time to create an even more capable model that could eventually be called artificial general intelligence, or AGI,” the report mentioned. The release of Orion comes as OpenAI, which has secured a historic $6.6 billion funding at a $157 billion valuation, is restructuring itself as a for-profit entity.
Recent Developments at OpenAI
Last month, three top executives — including Chief Technical Officer Mira Murati — left the ChatGPT developer. Of the 13 people who helped found OpenAI in 2015, only three now remain at the company. According to reports, Murati is raising venture capitalists’ money to finance her AI startup. Previous investor Thrive Capital led the new funding in OpenAI. The VC firm invested around $1.3 billion. Microsoft reportedly invested less than $1 billion, while Nvidia pledged $100 million, and SoftBank reportedly invested $500 million.
“The new funding will allow us to double down on our leadership in frontier AI research, increase compute capacity, and continue building tools that help people solve hard problems,” the company wrote in a blog post.
