First, what should the new Microsoft subsidiary be called? "FaithAI" seems to reflect Altman's optimistic vision. I'm looking forward to their coming up with something even better.
It could be that Sutskever's lack of a strong faith in advanced AI has prevented OpenAI from moving faster on GPT-5. With Microsoft probably willing to double or triple its $13 billion OpenAI investment in Sam's new company, it's not difficult to imagine him launching a 4.5-equivalant model by January or February.
After all, Musk launched Grok in two months with fewer than a dozen engineers. Altman will have a much wider and deeper talent pool to draw from at Microsoft, and most of the work on 4.5 has probably already been done. It wouldn't surprise me if "FaithAI" decided to bestow on the world the new model in time for Christmas. What a wonderful, unexpected, present that would be!
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