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We’re Still Waiting for the Next Big Leap in AI


Anthropic’s latest Claude AI model pulls ahead of rivals from OpenAI and Google. But advances in machine intelligence have lately been more incremental than revolutionary.

Expectation has been building for OpenAI to release a sequel called GPT-5 for more than a year now, and the company’s CEO, Sam Altman, has encouraged speculation that it will deliver another revolution in AI capabilities. With GPT-4 and similar models trained on huge swathes of online text, imagery, and video, it is getting more difficult to find new sources of data to feed to machine-learning algorithms. When OpenAI announced its own recent upgrade last month, with a model that has voice and visual capabilities called GPT-4o, the focus was on a more natural and humanlike interface rather than on substantially more clever problem-solving abilities.

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