OpenAI, the company behind the popular AI chatbot ChatGPT, just filed a trademark application for GPT-5, suggesting that the new tool may be on its way.
The tech giant's application was spotted by Windows Latest over the weekend, but the news portal noted that the trademark for "GPT-5" was submitted on July 18 under "downloadable computer software for using a language model."
According to the report, the same description was used in the trademark filing for the upcoming model's previous iterations, GPT-3.5 and GPT-4.
However, aside from the trademark filing, there is no other proof that GPT-5 will come any time this year.
In a recent event, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared the company has a lot of work to do before introducing GPT-5. "It takes a lot of time for it. We are not certainly close to it. There need to be more safety audits. I wish I could tell you about the timeline of the next GPT," he explained.
It also remains unclear how the company plans to level up the GPT-4 successor, but its trademark filing states potential features for the AI tool, such as "natural language processing, generation, understanding, and analysis."
Other stated functions in the application include software for machine-learning-based language and speech processing, text translation from one language to another, sharing datasets for machine learning, predictive analytics, and building language models.
While information surrounding the development of GPT-5 remains scarce, the Microsoft-backed AI company has been busy working on other projects.
Last week, the OpenAI CEO participated in the launch of the Worldcoin Project - a crypto-based initiative with the goal of deploying its innovative identity technology, World ID, and its digital currency, WLD.
In the previous weeks, OpenAI also launched the ChatGPT mobile app for iOS and Android.
Edited by Nikola Djuric