GPT-4.5 Turbo leaked in advance? Altman himself hinted that the new model is coming, rumored to go live this Thursday

Just today, netizens discovered that a model claimed to be GPT-4.5 Turbo appeared in the search results of Bing, Google, and DuckDuck Go at the same time!

The introduction information shows: GPT-4.5 Turbo is the fastest, most accurate, and most scalable model launched by OpenAI so far.

However, when we clicked in, we found that we could only jump to a 404 error page.

According to speculation from netizens, the official launch of GPT-4.5 Turbo is likely to be this Thursday, which coincides with the first anniversary of the release of GPT-4.

As evidence, Sam Altman will recently appear on Lex Fridman's podcast. Last year, Altman went to Fridman’s podcast after the release of GPT-4.

GPT-4.5 Turbo？

The preview information shows that the context window of GPT-4.5 Turbo will be as high as 256K - which is twice the size of GPT-4-Turbo, equivalent to about 200,000 words.

Of course, what is more critical is not the amount of data the model can handle, but how reliably it handles this data.

After all, existing long context models tend to ignore part of the information, which is particularly disadvantageous when analyzing large documents.

If GPT-4.5 Turbo can make a breakthrough in this area, even if other performance is equivalent to existing models, it will be a big improvement - such as Gemini 1.5, the most powerful long context model currently being tested by Google.

In addition, the preview information also revealed that the "knowledge update deadline" for GPT-4.5 Turbo will be June 2024, which means that the new model is likely to be released in June.

Obviously, judging from the leaked news, this time has been greatly advanced.

According to analysis, this is most likely because the Claude 3 model recently launched by competitor Anthropic is already comparable to GPT-4 in many fields. OpenAI hopes to regain model leadership as soon as possible to prevent customers from switching to Anthropic, even if this lead is only theoretical.

Sam Altman Teases New Model Coming Soon

Since December 2023, rumors about the upcoming release of GPT-4.5 Turbo have not stopped.

And on March 9, Sam Altman even personally hinted that the new model is coming.

At that time, Jimmy Apples suggested in a tweet that OpenAI should put aside strategic disputes and launch new products.

In response, Altman replied: "Be patient, Jimmy. It's worth the wait."

Now, with the completion of the investigation and the establishment of a new board of directors, OpenAI has basically cleared the obstacles on the road to technological innovation.

Altman said OpenAI has "important tasks" ahead of it, and he "can't wait to show off our next steps."

Truly Free GPT-4 Turbo

While OpenAI is doing things, Microsoft also announced good news: starting today, the free version of Copilot has been replaced by the GPT-4 Turbo model!

Mikhail Parakhin, Microsoft's director of advertising and network services, announced the news on Twitter:

In other words, everyone can now use GPT-4 Turbo for free!

In addition, if Pro users want to continue using the previous GPT-4, they can also switch with one click.

GPT-4 Turbo was released by OpenAI in November last year. In December, Microsoft announced that GPT-4 Turbo would be added to Copilot, but it requires a Copilot Pro subscription to access.

Copilot Pro costs $20 per month, but starting today, we can all do it for free!

As you can see from the comments, GPT-4 Turbo kicks in if Copilot is set to Creative mode or Precise mode.

Compared with previous versions, GPT-4 Turbo provides a longer context window, which is equivalent to 300 pages of text prompts for users.

GPT-4 Turbo is also better at handling complex and long-running tasks, with significant improvements in speed, accuracy and efficiency.

It is foreseeable that the free version of Copilot will have better responsiveness and a smoother experience.

For the Copilot team, a lot of work has been done this week.

On Monday, Microsoft confirmed that all Copilot Pro users will have access to Copilot GPT Builder. This new tool allows users to create their own custom chatbot that can answer more specific questions about targeted topics without any programming knowledge.

And, Copilot Pro subscribers can share their custom chatbots with anyone on mobile devices and PCs, even if the other person doesn’t have a Copilot Pro account.

Separately, some of Samsung's recently leaked promotional materials may indicate that more new Copilot features will be announced soon, including better integration with Copilot and Microsoft's Phone Link app with Samsung Galaxy smartphones.

Hot discussion among netizens

Faced with the news that GPT-4.5 Turbo leaked that it can be seen but not eaten, netizens had no choice but to vent their anger through comments.

In addition to the great contribution of the web crawler above, some netizens discovered that Copilot also cached information related to GPT-4.5 Turbo:

One netizen said: It’s just marketing! They deceived people’s traffic and deceived my feelings!

Some netizens believe that releasing GPT-4.5 at this time feels like a hasty response to Claude 3.

Some netizens also expressed dissatisfaction with the information revealed. Your opponent's context window has reached one million levels. Why are you still at 200,000? What's going on, little brother?

Of course, there are also practical netizens who say that I just want a 4.5 Turbo. I hope it is not expensive, has performance close to opus or standard GPT-4, and adds some practical functions such as 0125-turbo instructions to follow.

But after talking for a long time, I just looked at the plum blossoms to quench my thirst. Netizens said: "I can't wait, please serve it quickly!"

Another netizen responded, "I know you are in a hurry, but don't rush. Safety work takes time."

But what about my GPT-5? Gone?