OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Shares New GPT-5 Roadmap, Promises One AI to Rule Them All

Emulating the famous style of tech visionary Steve Jobs, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, unveiled significant plans on Wednesday to streamline and simplify the company’s array of AI products. This announcement is part of a strategic move to combine OpenAI’s various AI models into a cohesive system that is easily usable.

This decision comes in the wake of increasing competition, particularly from Chinese competitor DeepSeek, which has launched a more user-friendly AI that could potentially overshadow OpenAI’s multiple offerings, known for their complexity.

In a tweet, Altman expressed the company’s intentions, stating, “We want to do a better job of sharing our intended roadmap and a much better job simplifying our product offerings.” OpenAI currently has a broad spectrum of models, including GPT for creative language processing, “o” for reasoning, DALL-E for image generation, Sora for video content, and GPT-Vision for visual understanding.

Altman referenced Jobs’ iconic phrase, saying, “We want AI to ‘just work’ for you; we realize how complicated our model and product offerings have gotten.” This sentiment underscores their commitment to enhancing user experience.

OpenAI's Roadmap for GPT-4.5 and GPT-5

Altman briefly outlined the roadmap for the forthcoming models, promising a reworking of the interface to eliminate the perplexity that forces users to select from various models based on their tasks.

The proposed solution involves what Altman described as