Sam Altman said he 'sometimes' used ChatGPT to answer Reddit AMA questions

• Sam Altman said OpenAI's adjacent large exemplary is apt not coming this year.
• The CEO answered personification questions during a Reddit Ask Me Anything Thursday — sometimes utilizing ChatGPT to respond, he said.
• The update comes arsenic OpenAI faces expanding unit from AI competitors.

Sam Altman utilized his ain AI creation to reply questions during a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" convention connected Thursday.

The OpenAI CEO answered Redditors' wide-ranging questions connected nan societal media platform, rubbing connected nan merchandise day of nan company's adjacent GPT exemplary and existent computing struggles astatine nan investigation organization.

Altman besides said he was utilizing ChatGPT, nan company's generative AI chatbot, to "sometimes" reply questions during nan AMA.

The billionaire offered caller timing specifications connected OpenAI's adjacent ample AI model, GPT-5, saying its merchandise apt won't travel this year.

"All of these models person gotten rather complex, and we can't vessel arsenic galore things successful parallel arsenic we'd for illustration to," Altman wrote, adding that nan institution is facing "limitations and difficult decisions" astir really to allocate computing resources toward respective "great ideas."

Altman said nan institution has "some very bully releases coming later this year," though thing "we are going to telephone GPT-5."

As competitors adjacent successful connected OpenAI's manufacture success, nan pressure is on for Altman and different executives to merchandise faster and amended updates.

A activity of top-level departures successful caller months has allowed different AI-focused startups to prowl for nan company's erstwhile talent.

OpenAI engineering vice president Srinivas Narayanan addressed nan executive exits, saying nan institution was "sad to not person immoderate of nan group we had worked pinch closely."

"We person an incredibly talented squad and galore caller astonishing group who person joined america precocious arsenic well," Narayanan wrote. "And we support shipping, which is really important."

Despite an at-times rocky twelvemonth for Altman, which included a little ouster from nan institution past November, nan CEO precocious secured a historical $6.6 cardinal round of fundraising, giving OpenAI a valuation of $157 billion.

Altman's Thursday AMA followed nan launch of a caller hunt characteristic in ChatGPT that useful likewise to hunt engines for illustration Google, Bing, and Perplexity. The CEO said nan characteristic is his all-time favourite successful a Thursday station connected X.

Narayanan told Redditors that ChatGPT uses a set of hunt services behind nan scenes, including Bing.

OpenAI execs besides answered users' questions astir erstwhile to expect early models and features, for illustration nan video exemplary Sora and image exemplary DALL-E.

Product Chief Kevin Weil said nan Sora exemplary still needs to beryllium perfected pinch meticulous information and impersonation features. The DALL-E, meanwhile, has no planned merchandise arsenic of yet, Altman said, adding that nan adjacent update will "be worthy nan wait."