OpenAI CEO sees uphill struggle to GPT

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, right, with the company's CTO, Mira Murati, left. There are "some very hard science questions" on the road to a GPT-5, says Altman. 

Tiernan Ray

The next version of OpenAI's large language model program, which would be called GPT-5, faces some very difficult scientific challenges that make it hard to set a definite timeframe for when the program might appear, said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday. 

"The number of things we've gotta figure out before we make a model that we'll call GPT-5 is still a lot," said Altman, in a press conference following the company's first-ever developer conference, which took place in San Francisco. 

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