Spoiler alert: it wont.

Microsoft has a good reason to want GPT-5 in May.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pointing. The company is working on a new version of GPT, GPT-4.5 and GPT-5. Photo: Markus Schreiber

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Last year,Microsoft debuted the Copilot+ lineof PCs with their set standard for on-equipment AI processing.

Altman only offered some vague promises of how it will structure access to GPT-5.

GPT-4.5, or Orion, is the companys last non-chain-of-thought model.

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Of course, Altman and the companys definition of AGI differs from what most people would call intelligent.

Color me skeptical about whether the next big GPT model is truly revolutionary.

The ball is now in OpenAIs court and needs to prove it has the stuff with GPT-4.5 and GPT-5.

The MareNostrum 5 supercomputer in Barcelona.

Thats not necessarily for the sake of regular users but for investors.

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