OpenAI has a busy couple of weeks ahead of them, as the ChatGPT maker announced its "12 days of OpenAI." In CEO Sam Altman's own words, the company will "have a livestream with a launch or demo, some big ones and some stocking stuffers."
With the huge rumored announcements coming over the next two weeks — from a launch of the AI video generator Sora, and a full release of the o1 reasoning model, to a potential big update to ChatGPT's Advanced Voice with Voice Engine, we have a lot to cover so we're doing it live.
And that's before even mentioning that we're anticipating big AI news from the competition too. If developments in this space weren't already interesting, things are certainly going to get a lot more interesting.
12 Days of OpenAI: Quick predictions
Of course, every announcement can't be a blockbuster. OpenAI themselves say that you can expect new things, "big and small." Let's go through a quick list of what we expect heading into the 12 Days of OpenAI.
- Sora soars: After its apparent leak towards the end of last week, we're most confident that OpenAI's video generator will be one of the blockbuster announcements of the show.
- o1 is open: So far, OpenAI's reasoning model has been available in preview. We're predicting this model will exit its preview stage during these 12 days. On top of that, this could allow it access to ChatGPT memory, at which point, the sky's the limit for how it can help with that personal context.
- Advanced search gets more advanced: We've seen rumors and leaks about Voice Engine being able to recreate human voices with just a 15-second recording. This would be a wild announcement if it happens, but I'm only 50/50 on it actually seeing a launch this year. Instead, I'd look more to small but significant tweaks like getting access to live search or being able to look through a camera (such as your webcam or phone snapper).
- Canvas improvements: Finally, Canvas has become one of our favorite writing tools that fuses the assistance of generative AI with your workload in a way that feels slick and actually helpful. We predict some updates coming that we saw subtly hinted towards — like stacking different elements within a chat.
- ChatGPT-weaks: And finally, turning to ChatGPT itself, we're anticipating some improvements to the capability of OpenAI's bread and butter chatbot — including video analysis.
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