Unlike the release of OpenAI’s last two models, the GPT-4o and o1, Orion will not initially be widely released via ChatGPT. Instead, OpenAI plans to first provide access to companies it works closely with so they can build their own products and features, according to a source.
Another source said that engineers within Microsoft are preparing to host Orion on Azure as early as November.
While Orion is seen as the successor to GPT-4 within OpenAI, it is unclear whether the company will call it GPT-5 externally.
Orion was touted by an OpenAI executive as potentially 100 times more powerful than GPT-4.