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In a RedditAMA , OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted that a lack of compute capacity is one major factor preclude the ship’s company from shipping production as often as it ’d like .
“ All of these models have bring forth quite complex , ” he wrote in response to a question about why OpenAI ’s next AI model were contract so long . “ We also present a lot of limitation and grueling decision about [ how ] we allocated our compute towards many majuscule ideas . ”
Manyreportssuggest that OpenAI has struggled to secure enough compute infrastructure to run away and train its procreative models . Just this week , Reuters , citing sources , saidthat OpenAI has for calendar month been working with Broadcom to make an AI chip for running fashion model , which could arrive as presently as 2026 .
partially as a result of strained capacity , Altman say , OpenAI ’s naturalistic - sounding colloquial feature forChatGPT , Advanced Voice Mode , wo n’t be getting the vision capability first teased in April anytime soon . At its April press effect , OpenAIshowedthe ChatGPT app run on a smartphone and responding to visual clue , such as the clothes someone was don , within vista of the phone ’s camera .
Reportingfrom Fortune later revealed the demo was rushed to steal attention off from Google ’s I / O developer group discussion , which was taking place the same week . Many within OpenAI did n’t think GPT-4o was quick to be discover . Tellingly , the articulation - only version of Advanced Voice Mode wasdelayedfor months .
In the AMA , Altman indicated that the next major release of OpenAI ’s image generator , DALL - E , has no launching timeline . ( “ We do n’t have a release design yet , ” he said . ) Meanwhile , Sora , OpenAI ’s picture - generating tool , has been held back by the “ need to hone the model , get rubber / impersonation / other thing right , and scale compute , ” wrote Kevin Weil , OpenAI ’s chief product policeman , who also participated in the AMA .
Sora has reportedly suffer from expert setbacks that position it poorly against rival systems from Luma , Runway , and others . PerThe Information , the original system of rules , reveal in February , took more than 10 minutes of processing clock time to make a 1 - minute picture time .
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In October , one of the Centennial State - leads on Sora , Tim Brooks , leftfor Google .
Later in the AMA , Altman say that OpenAI’sstill consideringallowing “ NSFW ” content in ChatGPT “ someday ” ( “ we totally conceive in treat adult exploiter like grownup , ” he pen ) , and that the fellowship ’s top precedence is improve itso1series of “ reason ” models and their successors . OpenAIprevieweda number of feature of speech coming to o1 at its DevDay conference in London this calendar week , including prototype understanding .
“ We have some very good loss coming subsequently this year , ” Altman indite . “ Nothing that we are go to call GPT-5 , though . ”
