I have no special insight here but boring, cynical common sense suggests the following:
The big difference between now and the pre-ChatGPT era is that Google and a bunch of other massive competitors have woken up and want to blaze past OpenAI. For their part, OpenAI doesn’t want there to be a perception that they have been overtaken, so will want to release on a fast enough schedule to be able to trump Google’s latest and greatest. (Of course the arrival of something marketed as “GPT-5” tells us nothing about the true state of progress. The GPTs aren’t natural kinds.)
I have no special insight here but boring, cynical common sense suggests the following:
The big difference between now and the pre-ChatGPT era is that Google and a bunch of other massive competitors have woken up and want to blaze past OpenAI. For their part, OpenAI doesn’t want there to be a perception that they have been overtaken, so will want to release on a fast enough schedule to be able to trump Google’s latest and greatest. (Of course the arrival of something marketed as “GPT-5” tells us nothing about the true state of progress. The GPTs aren’t natural kinds.)