Everyone thinks this picture of strawberries is teasing a major ChatGPT update

Is Sam Altman posting a picture of fruit, or teasing something big?

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Is Sam Altman just trying to get people tomarvelat a few small strawberries he’s grown, or is theOpenAICEO (the team behindChatGPT) teasing the next big upgrade to itschatbot?

That’s what we’re left wondering after his latestsocial media postshowing a plant pot growing fruit, complete with the caption “I love summer in the garden.” From anyone else, this would be a pretty basic even boring musing, but from Altman, many are taking this as a sign that OpenAI might soon launch its next big update for ChatGPT– whichleaks from earlier this year said was codenamed ‘Strawberry’.

i love summer in the garden pic.twitter.com/Ter5Z5nFMcAugust 7, 2024

Currently, ChatGPT’s best commercially available model isGPT-4o. It rolled out back in May, and allowed the LLM to understand text, audio, image, and video prompts. It’s also faster than previous iterations, and smarter too. This was all showcased in an online demo in which ChatGPT was able to translate a conversation in real-time, and help someone to solve a math equation it was shown an image of among other neat tools.

Though, you might better know GPT-4o as the voice update which was meant to include a flirtyHer-like voice called Sky before the specific personality was pulled – seemingly in response to legal action taken by actressScarlett Johansson who claimed Sky was based on her, something OpenAI denieddespite Altman tweeting out ‘Her’ the same day as GPT-4o’s launch (directly likening the voices to the movie starring Johansson as an AI).

GPT-5, or whatever official name ‘Strawberry’ takes, would supposedlyimprove the bot’s reasoning capabilities(perReuters). The hope is this version of the AI could operate more independently from a human; not only could it simply find an answer to a question, but it could also do follow-up research – a major step towards a more human-like AI that other companies have yet to release.

Obviously, Altman’s post is nothing close to an official announcement. While it could be a teaser for Strawberry and hinting at an upcoming release, it could equally be Altman messing with people desperate to try Strawberry, or simply a post about his garden. That said, Altman only ever posts about AI and ChatGPT, so a sudden garden pic is more than a little out of character unless it means something more.

The only other evidence that points to this maybe being something more areposts on social media discussing an ‘Anonymous-chatbot’that appeared in LMSYS Chatbot Arena. It allows people to see how two different models fare with the same prompt, and this new unknown model calls itself a fine-tuned version of GPT-4. Its appearance is being taken as a sign that some kind of announcement is on its way.

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New model on arena again. It is simply named ‘anonymous-chatbot’ this time. There is speculation already that this is Q*. Whatever it is, something new is on the way. https://t.co/Zvpr2XUSxGAugust 7, 2024

OpenAI is almost certainly cooking up an update to ChatGPT, it’s just a question of whether or not Altman’s post is explicitly referencing that next upgrade, and if it’s coming soon. Signs certainly point to it but we wouldn’t recommend holding your breath.

If you’re desperate to see AI upgrades, your next best bet will be seeing whatGoogleannounces for Gemini at itsMade By Google event next week.

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