Microsoft Says OpenAI’s Latest Blockbuster AI Is Dropping “Next Week”

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Update, March 10th: A spokesman for OpenAI has confirmed in a statement to Futurism that “OpenAI has not announced any timing for GPT-4”.

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A German Microsoft executive has for some reason claimed that OpenAI’s next big language model (LLM) is about to fall.

“We will present GPT-4 next week, there we will have multimodal models that offer completely different possibilities – for example videos,” said Andreas Braun, CTO of Microsoft Germany, during a digital kickoff event yesterday, per German Tech News Site Heise Online.

According to the report, Braun didn’t elaborate during the hour-long event other than claiming that GPT-4 will work in “all languages” because the companies “wanted to make the models comprehensive.”

The report leaves us with many questions. Largely unfounded rumours There has been a lot of buzz around OpenAI’s next-gen LLM, which could also lay the foundation for the next version of ChatGPT, for quite some time.

While we have of course reached out to both Microsoft and OpenAI to back up this claim, we still have to ask ourselves: Why should an executive from Microsoft Germany be the one making such an announcement, and indeed, is this at all any news from microsoft? ?

Loose lips

We would casually note that this isn’t the first time in the past few months that news of Microsoft’s multi-billion dollar partnership with OpenAI has leaked to the press.

In January, when anonymously cited reports suggested the deal was in the works, a Microsoft spokesman was on the verge of doing so futurism contacted the company for on-file confirmation.

“We don’t comment on speculation,” the spokesman said Jan. 11 — less than two weeks before OpenAI itself confirmed the deal.

Given the somewhat odd nature of the shovel, hot Journalist Silke Hahn went to Twitter to confirm her story and sources – and claims someone from Microsoft contacted her after the story was published to thank her for it.

Altman about it

This isn’t the first news we’ve heard about OpenAI’s upcoming language model, although what we heard is also quite bizarre: in a January interview with Exclusively VCcompany CEO Sam Altman quipped that people might be disappointed with GPT-4.

Of its release date, Altman was reticent.

“It’ll come out eventually,” the CEO said, “when we’re confident that we can do it safely and responsibly.”

Has this point been reached? It’s too early to tell – and it seems like some German Microsoft employees have jumped the gun.

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