Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Tuesday, May 28,

2024. I'm Brian McCullough. Today we have a rough timeline of when we can expect

GPT 5 and it looks like it will not be the summer.

X- AI has a big raise, another in-depth look at Apple's AI strategy, the surprising old

school companies getting boosted by the AI Boom and more data on how popular

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Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

So it sounds like GPT 5 is maybe a year away still. The Times is reporting that

Open AI has begun training its new flagship AI model, but that's a process that could take nine months or more.

And they've created a new safety and security committee since the alignment team is now dead.

The company said in a blog post that it expects the new model to bring

quote the next level of capabilities as it strives to build artificial general

intelligence or AGI a machine that can do anything the human brain can do. The new

model would be an engine for AI products including

Chatbots digital assistance akin to Apple Siri search engines and image generators.

Open AI also said it was creating a new safety and security committee to explore how it should handle the risks posed by the new model and future

technologies. While we are proud to build and release models that are industry leading on both capabilities and safety,

we welcome a robust debate at this important moment, the

company said. Digital training of AI models can take months or even years. Once the

training is completed, AI companies typically spend several more months testing the technology and fine-tuning it for public use.

That could mean that Open AI's next model will not arrive for another nine months to a year or more.

As Open AI trains its new model, its new

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