xAI CEO Elon Musk wasn’t notably happy on Thursday as his largest competitor OpenAI launched its newest GPT-5 mannequin. Musk went on to fireside a flurry of tweets within the coming hours, claiming that his firm’s Grok 4 Heavy mannequin was nonetheless the ‘strongest AI’ mannequin on the market and that the AI lab was planning to launch the Grok 5 mannequin by the top of the yr to offer rivals a run for his or her cash.
Musk additionally went on to warn Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella concerning the risks of partnering with OpenAI, noting that the ChatGPT maker was ‘going to eat Microsoft alive’.
Nadella then responded to Musk‘s publish with a signature calmness that one assumes with the Microsoft chief, stating, “Folks have been attempting for 50 years and that’s the enjoyable of it! Every day you be taught one thing new, and innovate, associate, and compete. Excited for Grok 4 on Azure and searching ahead to Grok 5!”
In the meantime, Musk additionally introduced that Grok‘s new Think about characteristic for video and picture era will now be out there without spending a dime to all customers. Notably, whereas OpenAI, Google and others already present picture era without spending a dime, their video era fashions like Sora and Veo 3 are often locked beneath a paywall.
GPT-5 involves Copilot:
OpenAI’s GPT-5 comes with a reported enchancment in plenty of areas in comparison with the earlier fashions together with coding, math, writing, well being, and visible notion. The brand new mannequin will probably be out there without spending a dime to all ChatGPT customers with paid customers getting a better utilization restrict.
Nevertheless, the partnership between OpenAI and Microsoft implies that GPT-5 can also be coming to Microsoft’s suite of apps together with Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot, Azure AI Foundry and Copilot.
As is the case with most OpenAI mannequin launches, within the standalone Copilot app integration of GPT-5, customers ought to ideally have a better utilization restrict than the one offered by OpenAI on ChatGPT. Furthermore, GPT-5 is already out there on the Copilot web site for customers to strive whereas the OpenAI rollout should still take just a few days to succeed in all customers.
