According to a recent report, OpenAI is looking to secure more funding as its researchers develop ‘Orion’, a new model anticipated to solve complex problems more effectively than current AI technologies.
This confirms AI insider Jimmy Apples’ cryptic post from last year, which featured an image of the ‘Orion’ constellation with the caption, “Let’s conquer the cosmos”.
Let’s conquer the cosmos.
Mood: Curious Jimmy pic.twitter.com/ZEG2uJsuQq
— Jimmy Apples 🍎/acc (@apples_jimmy) November 25, 2023
OpenAI chief Sam Altman, too, had hinted a few days earlier in a cryptic post that the company was working on a project known internally as Project Strawberry, also referred to as Q*.
“I love summer in the garden,” wrote Altman on X, posting the image of a terracotta pot containing a strawberry plant with lush green leaves and small, ripening strawberries.
One key use of Strawberry is to produce high-quality training data for Orion, the next major LLM currently being developed by OpenAI.
However, the catch is that the new model takes extra time to …