Undertaking Strawberry, OpenAI’s codename for its new ChatGPT reasoning-focused synthetic intelligence was set for a fall launch, however now studies recommend it may arrive earlier than the iPhone 16 on September 20.
Based on The Info, the brand new ChatGPT service may launch within the subsequent two weeks. Two testers of the brand new AI mannequin declare the unique launch date has been moved ahead to pioneer a brand new technology of AI instruments.
Strawberry might be a standalone providing at launch, however we’re not fairly certain how will probably be applied into ChatGPT simply but. The testers declare it could possibly be a ‘dropdown menu of AI fashions clients can choose from to energy ChatGPT’ with Strawberry in a position to suppose, responding in additional element and taking longer than GPT-4o.
“The preliminary model will solely have the ability to absorb and produce textual content—and never photographs—which suggests it isn’t but multimodal the way in which different OpenAI fashions are.” A transparent shortcoming in comparison with different LLMs out available in the market, like Google Gemini.
The Info expects the pricing to be barely totally different from ChatGPT, anticipating ‘fee limits proscribing customers to some most variety of messages per hour, with the potential for a higher-priced tier that’s sooner to reply, in keeping with one other particular person with data of the product.’
So what precisely is Undertaking Strawberry?
Undertaking Strawberry is a brand new AI mannequin from the parents at OpenAI with a brand new strategy that is in a position to purpose and ‘suppose’, making it good for mathematical equations. The AI mannequin has been used internally to resolve puzzles that ChatGPT would battle with akin to New York Instances Connections, one other phrase sport hit like Wordle.
Simply final month, The Info acquired particulars from two testers (we will’t affirm they’re the identical as this report) that Undertaking Strawberry could possibly be launched in October/November nevertheless it looks as if OpenAI has determined to shortly change the anticipated launch window. It’s nonetheless unclear if Undertaking Strawberry might be a part of GPT-5, however we would not have lengthy to seek out out.