Open AI has already filed a trademark registration application for GPT-5. It does not mean that soon the model is going to be released. It means the company wants to protect the trademark and trade name and prevent its unauthorized use.

GPT-5 is anticipated version of GPT-4. It is to be seen when the company releases it after Sam Altman and others want the further development of AI to be paused for some time. In June 2023, Altman declares that there is no training for GPT-5 as yet.

There is no confirmation about the features of the new version. The present trademark application would take 4-5 months for approval. Does that mean by year the end, GPT-5 could be released? By inference, do we have right now GPT-4.5?

In a previous article, we have discussed GPT-4 with Code Interpreter feature. Is that then GPT-4.5. Maybe, the company avoids the nomenclature as there are noises for the pause of AI.

OpenAI had claimed AI with superintelligence in the next four years in a blog about alignment of AI. Thus the trademark registration materialising by the year end, and the four years expected to have AI with superintelligence are two different propositions, and the timelines are different.

Maybe as the capabilities of competitors are rising, OpenAI may discard the halting of AI and may actually build it as soon as possible, say the year end.