OpenAI surprised ChatGPT fans on Friday with the announcement of an event on Monday, May 13th. Titled Spring Updates, the event announcement came amid speculation that OpenAI was planning to unveil a Google Search rival on Monday, just one day before Google I/O 2024.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman quickly debunked rumors about ChatGPT Search. He also said that GPT-5 shouldn’t be expected on Monday. But he teased that the company will be announcing a new product OpenAI thinks people will love, a product that “feels like magic” to Altman.
If that sounds exciting and you love genAI products like ChatGPT, the ChatGPT Spring Updates event is streaming live, and I’ll tell you how to watch it.
OpenAI will live-stream the event
OpenAI announced it’ll stream the Spring Updates event live on its website at 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 AM PT on Monday, May 13th. You’ll only have to head to openai.com and wait for the video to play. Currently, there’s a placeholder image that teases the ChatGPT Spring Updates event.
Unlike Sam Altman’s tweet, OpenAI’s official event announcement was much more dry. The company said the May 13th event will deliver some ChatGPT and GPT-4 updates. There was no mention of magic of any kind.
The alternative to watching on OpenAI’s website is tuning it directly via YouTube below. Ironically, OpenAI is using one of Google’s best products to stream an event one day before Google’s own I/O 2024 event. Also, OpenAI is expected to cover new ChatGPT features that are direct rivals to some of Google’s own AI products.
What will OpenAI announce?
As a ChatGPT user myself, I’m definitely interested in what’s coming next from OpenAI. Altman teased the future of personal ChatGPT AI in recent interviews, and I want that experience from generative AI products.
“What you really want,” Altman told MIT Technology Review, “is just this thing that is off helping you.” According to Altman in the same interview, the killer app for AI is a “super-competent colleague that knows absolutely everything about my whole life, every email, every conversation I’ve ever had, but doesn’t feel like an extension.”
We won’t get there immediately. It’ll take plenty of baby steps, and I’d speculate that the ChatGPT Spring Updates event will be one of them.
A report on Friday from The Information might have spoiled what’s coming at the event beyond Altman’s teasers. The blog says OpenAI might unveil some sort of multimodal ChatGPT AI assistant that can deal with voice prompts and recognize images. The updated genAI product might be able to translate signs you see on the road and show better logical reasoning when solving problems.
The ChatGPT assistant’s abilities might include the power of understanding intonation and detecting sarcasm in voice.
A separate report said that OpenAI is testing making calls within ChatGPT.
These ChatGPT features are not confirmed, but the good news is that OpenAI’s Spring Updates event is mere hours away. Sam Altman will either confirm the rumors or debunk them. Either way, we might get more announcements from OpenAI on Monday, considering that Google’s big AI event takes place just one day later. Make no mistake, I/O 2024 is all about AI, and OpenAI’s event is all about taking the fight to Google.
