ChatGPT overload? Sam Altman pushes GPT-5 to later date, confirms new model launches this month

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has confirmed that the makers of ChatGPT are delaying the launch of its latest base model, GPT-5, after facing ‘biblical’ demand for its recently launched native image generation feature. Notably, ChatGPT’s underlying model GPT-4o received a massive update last week that allowed it to directly generate images instead of relying on an external model such as DALL-E 3. The new features allowed ChatGPT to better understand the user’s context while generating more nuanced and accurate images, resulting in a global Studio Ghibli-style image trend by social media users.