OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted a photo of a strawberry pot on the social platform Many people speculated that this hinted that OpenAI was secretly developing a new base model called "Strawberry", whose performance may be comparable to the long-awaited GPT-5. This speculation coincides with the OpenAI projects codenamed "Q*" and "Strawberry" previously reported by Reuters. These projects are aimed at achieving major breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, especially artificial general intelligence (AGI).
OpenAI’s high-level personnel changes do not seem to affect the mood of its co-founder and CEO Sam Altman. Today, he shared a photo of strawberries growing in a flowerpot on social network
Although the photo may seem ordinary, members of the AI community believe it may be Altman hinting at a new base model that OpenAI is developing, internally codenamed "Strawberry." This model is thought to be potentially comparable to the much-anticipated GPT-5. One blogger on X, @kimmonismus, posted: "What other clues do we need? This could be confirmation of Q*."
Bindu Reddy, CEO of Abacus AI open source AI startup, also believes that this is a "reference" to the "Strawberry Project". She said this was a hint at the reasoning project that OAI has been rumored to have been working on for more than a year.
In addition, a new AI model called "Anonymous Chatbot" has been added to the popular open source lmsys arena, which increases people's curiosity about the "Strawberry" project. Early users report that the new model exhibits more advanced inference capabilities than GPT-4o and other competitors, indicating that it may be more powerful.
Regarding the "Strawberry" project, Reuters mentioned a new AI model called "Q*" in a report in November 2023, which is considered a breakthrough for OpenAI in finding artificial general intelligence (AGI). In May 2024, Reuters published another exclusive report stating that OpenAI was working on a project code-named "Strawberry" to use novel methods to process its artificial intelligence model.
The goal of the "Strawberry" project is to enable OpenAI's AI to not only generate answers to queries, but also to plan ahead, browse the Internet autonomously and reliably, and perform so-called "deep research."
Nearly 17 months have passed since OpenAI released its last major new base model, GPT-4. During this period, although new GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini basic models were released, OpenAI needed to continue to innovate in the face of competition from Anthropic, Google, Meta, etc. to maintain its leading position in the AI field.
Ultraman's "strawberry" photo has triggered widespread speculation. Although there is no definite evidence yet, it has undoubtedly increased people's expectations for OpenAI's future actions and also indicates that competition in the AI field will become more intense.